Who is Lisa Trevor from the new Resident Evil movie?

Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon CityLisa Trevor (a creepy, creepy character) is prominently featured in the movie. She has appeared in only a couple of games in Capcom’s franchise, so her inclusion in director Johannes Roberts’ new Resident Evil movie is a somewhat surprising (albeit tonally suitable) choice.

If you aren’t familiar with Lisa Trevor and her tragic backstory in Resident Evil, and might be wondering who that leatherfaced lady is, allow us to dig into her place in the horror games’ canon.

[Ed. note: This story contains potential spoilers for Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City and the 2002 Resident Evil GameCube remake.]

Lisa Trevor was first seen in 2002’s remake. Resident EvilAs an invulnerable foe and as such, The Umbrella Chronicles: Resident EvilThe 2007 Wii on-rails shooter. Lisa was not in the original version. Resident Evil released for PlayStation back in 1996, but her addition to the remake helped reinforce the horror elements of the game’s setting, the Spencer Mansion, and its original evil resident.

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According to Resident Evil lore, Lisa’s father, George Trevor, was the architect of the Spencer Mansion, the setting of the original game and much of Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City. Upon the mansion’s completion in the early 1950s, Dr. Oswell E. Spencer, George Trevor’s client, invited the Trevor family to stay at the newly completed mansion. Oswell, concerned George was too knowledgeable about the mansion’s twisted, puzzle-filled interior, summoned Trevors to his home and placed them in jail. Spencer kidnapped Lisa and Jessica and put them through testing for a virus known as Progenitor.

Lisa and Jessica were each given a particular strain of the virus, and while her mother’s condition deteriorated, Lisa’s reaction to Progenitor granted her superhuman strength. However, her mental state declined; Lisa lashed out violently at her captors and even killed an employee of Spencer’s who attempted to impersonate Jessica. Lisa retaliated by tearing off that employee’s face, hoping to return the face to her mother — who, unbeknownst to Lisa, had died as a result of the Progenitor experiments. Lisa had a bad habit of keeping faces. She wore them everywhere, which is what led to her grim appearance in the interminable games. Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City.

Lisa was imprisoned in the Spencer mansion for nearly 30 years as Umbrella Corporation researchers — including Dr. William Birkin, played by Neal McDonough in the film — experimented on her. Lisa was left severely disfigured and unable to control herself and was kept in the Spencer mansion for nearly 30 years by Umbrella Corporation researchers. Her Progenitor viral infection gave Lisa strength as well as incredible healing abilities. Her captors were unable to execute her properly and disposed her body in an Arklay mountain nearby. She lived free in the wilderness. Lisa ran for several years, desperate to be reunited with her mother.

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Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon CityLisa Trevor has become less dangerous and more sympathetic than in her battle with Jill Valentine and Chris Redfield in the Spencer games. Actor Marina Mazepa, who is also responsible for the physical performance for Gabriel in James Wan’s MalignantLisa came to life in the screenplay by.

Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City director Johannes Roberts told Polygon in an interview that Lisa Trevor was a very important piece of the film’s story from the beginning.

“When I was looking at how to tell this movie and how to engage an audience that has maybe been jaded with six [Resident Evil movies] already — and maybe bring in an audience that wanted to be scared again, or wanted a way to access this world in a different way — the one character that I always used to find disturbing in the games was Lisa Trevor,” Roberts said. “Because of what she represented, her backstory and everything, there was something really weird [and]There is something very disturbing about this. She is not mentioned in either the animated or the films. It’s something I like.

“It was so important to find a way to disturb the audience,” Roberts continued, “and I find that with zombies and big creatures it’s tricky. Big-creature stuff is always fun, but it’s never, like, gut[-level]Disturbing… and I liked the idea that this character was haunting and haunted. This is not CGI. But a real actor who can do amazing creature performance stuff. She became a really good benchmark for the tone of how I wanted to take the movie.”

Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon CityIt is now available in cinemas