A kidnapping case and a zombie outbreak turn out to be the same job in Resident Evil: Death Island, the CG-animated feature that finally puts the franchise's biggest names on screen together.
What is Resident Evil: Death Island about?
D.S.O. agent Leon S. Kennedy is sent to pull Dr. Antonio Taylor out of the hands of kidnappers, a straightforward extraction until a mysterious woman derails the operation and turns a rescue into a trail with no clear end. Across the city, B.S.A.A. agent Chris Redfield is already tracking something worse: a zombie outbreak spreading through San Francisco that looks less like an accident the longer he stays on it. The two threads pull tighter as the film goes on, dragging in familiar faces from across the series' history and forcing them to work a case that reaches past one kidnapping into something built to spread. Director Eiichirō Hasumi keeps the pace close to the games that spawned it: tight corridors, mounting outbreak stakes and combat-driven set pieces built for an ensemble rather than a single lead.
About the cast
The English voice cast reunites several long-running Resident Evil performers, led by Matthew Mercer, Kevin Dorman, Erin Cahill, Nicole Tompkins, Stephanie Panisello, Salli Saffioti, Cristina Valenzuela and Daman Mills. Bringing this many recurring characters into one film is part of the appeal for longtime followers of the series.
Context & significance
Resident Evil: Death Island is a 2023 Japanese CG-animated feature spanning action, adventure, horror, thriller and fantasy, and running 87 minutes. It sits within the wider Resident Evil animated line, built on the survival-horror games that inspired it, and continues the series' pattern of pairing its established agents in outbreak scenarios that widen with each installment.
Watching Resident Evil: Death Island on Ktime
Resident Evil: Death Island is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, letting Farsi-speaking viewers follow the outbreak investigation in their own language. Browsing the film page costs nothing; watching the feature itself requires logging into a K-Time account. K-Time's Farsi-first design is built with the Iranian diaspora in mind, making franchise entries like this one easy to pick up even without prior games experience.