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Resident Evil (2002)
Where Resident Evil says it takes place, and where it was really shot.
The secret Umbrella laboratory beneath an American town was filmed in Germany: a Potsdam palace and a Berlin subway station that was not yet open.
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Scenes and places
The mansion where Alice wakes
Alice wakes in a bathroom with no memory. A stranger tackles her, then armed commandos burst in. The stranger says he is a cop, and the team has no record of him.
Set in Spencer mansion above the Hive (fictional) — A deserted mansion above the Hive, where Alice wakes with amnesia and a team of commandos breaks in.
A grand old house that hides the way down to an underground laboratory.
Filmed at Schloss Lindstedt, Potsdam (Lindstedt, Potsdam, Germany) — Used as the setting for the entrance to the secret underground laboratory complex. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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Down into the Hive
The commandos reveal that Alice and her partner were posted to guard the Hive's secret entrance, and that their marriage is only a cover. They take Alice and Matt down by train, where they find another amnesiac.
Set in The Hive entrance and train (fictional) — A secret entrance beneath the mansion leads to a train that carries the team into the Hive under Raccoon City.
A subway station in the middle of Berlin's government district, built but not yet open to passengers when the film crew used it.
Filmed at U-Bahnhof Bundestag, Berlin (then unfinished) (Mitte · Regierungsviertel, Berlin, Germany) — The then-unfinished station served as the film set for access to the laboratory complex. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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Into the Red Queen's labs
Inside the Hive, the team is told that the Red Queen sealed the facility and killed everyone. Alice and Matt follow the commandos through flooded labs and a dining hall toward her chamber.
Set in The Hive interior and the Red Queen's chamber (fictional) — Inside the Hive, the team crosses flooded labs and a dining hall on its way to the chamber of the Red Queen, the facility's artificial intelligence.
A film studio complex on the eastern edge of Berlin, where much of the film's interior work was shot.
Filmed at Studio Berlin, Adlershof (Adlershof, Berlin, Germany) — Half of the film was to be shot at Adlershof Studios in Berlin and its surroundings; the source does not say which scenes. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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Characters
- Alice — A woman who wakes in a deserted mansion with no memory of who she is.
- Matt Addison — A newly transferred Raccoon City police officer who is taken along with the team.
- James "One" Shade — The commando leader who takes the group down into the Hive.
Questions answered on the map
- Where was the secret entrance to Umbrella's underground lab really filmed?