Paramedics were told on ambulance radios that a catastrophic accident had occurred on the set of a movie where 16 actors fell from a collapsed platform.
What they found entering the sound stage was even worse; dozens of people screaming, moaning, struggling on a floor awash in blood. As they triaged the disaster paramedics discovered all the grisly victims were zombies.
The massive blood and evident injuries were mainly from the make-up and costuming, while the groaning came from extras remaining in zombie character believing that cameras were still rolling.
Quickly the medical team ID’d the injured from the living dead, cutting away the fake-bloodied costumes to bandage the real carnage underneath and loading a baker’s dozen into ambulances.
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All this while filming Resident Evil: Retribution at the Cinespace Film Studios in Toronto. The ‘collapsed platform’ was actually a large wheeled set piece where the zombie extras were told to walk to an adjoining set, but the wheel device moved and many fell through the gap.
Fifth in a series that began in 2002, Resident Evil: Retribution is based on the Capcom video game series Resident Evil and is distributed by Screen Gems and Sony Pictures.
One of the recurring actors in the horror film franchise is Milla Jovovich, who was nowhere near today’s accident .