Resident Evil: 10 Reasons It's The Best Horror Franchise Of All Time

10. Embraces Silliness Of Schlock Horror

If you've never played the original Resident Evil, and I'm not counting the remake here, then you need to click on this video and watch what the first experience of the series was back in 1996.

Resident Evil was never one to take itself too seriously. Written in a non-native language, nothing in the original game landed the way it was meant to. That's why original meme generator Barry Burton is still known for wonderful turns of phrase like "You were almost a Jill sandwich" and "Here's a lockpick. It might be handy if you, the Master of Unlocking, take it with you."

Capcom has actually embraced these things, using them as easter eggs in other games, such as a shop in 2006's Dead Rising called Jill's Sandwiches.

It's this sense of humour that leads to things like Mr X in REmake 2 occasionally checking his head in a sad manner after you've shot off his hat, or, as shown in the image above, Ashley calling Leon a pervert if he ever looks up her skirt when catching her as she jumps down a ledge.