Paul W. S. Anderson

Anderson found one premise in Event Horizon and adapted a bigger one from a video game five years later, then spent the rest of his career running variations on both. Event Horizon sends a rescue crew after a ship that vanished on its maiden voyage seven years earlier, and lets them find out what came back with it. Resident Evil gives Milla Jovovich amnesia inside a secret lab called the Hive, and five films later she is still fighting the same corporation across what is left of the world.

Signature

• Milla Jovovich carried across the entire Resident Evil franchise as its one constant.
• Corporate facilities and colony ships that turn hostile from the inside.
• A viral or supernatural outbreak that keeps widening rather than resolving.
• Video-game and B-movie premises staged at full budget and total sincerity.