Movie Scenes That Almost Killed Crew Members
Milla Jovovich has made so many Resident Evil movies, and has been making them for so long, that they've almost erased the memory of the series of video games upon which they're based. Six movies about Alice fighting the evil Umbrella Corporation and their biological weapons which trigger a very bad zombie apocalypse have been released since 2002, with Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, hitting theaters in 2016 (ahead of the inevitable franchise reboot.)
Sadly, The Final Chapter is probably the last Resident Evil movie for veteran stunt performer Olivia Jackson. On the first day of shooting, Jackson, standing in for Jovovich, was all set to film what she called "a simple stunt" involving a motorcycle. "I had to drive the bike in a straight line while an oncoming camera on the arm of a mechanical crane would lift up and sweep over me," Jackson wrote in Glamour. She did her part, but the camera didn't do what it was supposed to do. The arm "failed to clear" and struck Jackson in the head and upper body. Because the character wouldn't be wearing a helmet, neither was Jackson. She suffered a "degloved" face — meaning the skin got torn clean off — and a severed neck artery. She didn't emerge from her coma for two weeks, and was left with a huge scar across her face and a paralyzed left arm, which was later amputated.