10 Movies Everyone Remembers For ONE Awesome Scene
6. The Laser Scene - Resident Evil
Paul W.S. Anderson's original 2002 Resident Evil movie is easily the best of the increasingly braindead franchise, despite ironically being the least-faithful to its video game namesake.
All in all it's a fairly generic B-movie mish-mash of zombie film cliches, albeit briefly brought to life by a spectacular mid-film sequence in which the Umbrella Corporation's rogue A.I. unleashes its laser defense system on a helpless squad of mercs.
The grisly scene sees the team trapped in a narrow hallway as the A.I. fires a series of red-hot lasers at them, mutilating, decapitating, and bisecting most of the squad, before firing an inescapable laser grid at the most resourceful team member (Colin Salmon), dicing him into meaty chunks.
Say what you will about Anderson as a filmmaker and Resident Evil as a whole, but this scene remains intensely memorable almost two decades later, largely thanks to Anderson's taut direction and Marilyn Manson's intense musical score.
It may be suspiciously similar to the opening scene of Cube - despite Anderson and co. claiming they hadn't seen the movie at the time - but it's really the single piece of inspired, imaginative filmmaking in the entire movie.