Resident Evil: 10 Reasons It's The Best Horror Franchise Of All Time
8. Genuinely Scary Monsters
The monsters in Resident Evil are scary, at least the first time you see them. The zombies lumber at you, the only instinct that remains in their rotted brain the hunger for flesh, but they have nothing on the man-made monstrosities and mutations.
The Lickers cling to walls and ceilings and are bullet sponges capable of tearing you apart with their razor-sharp claws. They're blind so you can sneak around them, but they're sensitive to noise so any fast movement or combat will bring them down.
They also have a habit of sensing when you're close even as you move slowly, and they'll start moving towards you along the walls as they investigate. It's creepy as hell and I defy anyone to be unmoved by it.
The Crimson Heads, that thankfully haven't made it out of the first REmake game, are a mutation of the normal zombie. Faster and with claws that can shred a STARS member, these guys rise from the corpse of a zombie if its head isn't destroyed or its body burned.
They're all genuinely terrifying creatures, and we haven't even made it to the boss creatures or roaming terrors like Nemesis and G-Birkin yet.