Sixteen were injured on the set of Resident Evil, but paramedics couldn’t tell who was a zombie and who was writhing in pain

Paramedics had difficulty telling the injured from the undead yesterday at Cinespace Film Studios: after an accident during the filming of Resident Evil: Retribution 3D, 16 actors portraying the undead were seen murmuring and writhing, naturally creating some confusion—were they acting, or possibly dying? The necromantic scourge could have been seriously injured when the wheeled platform they were on shifted, causing a four-foot fall—according to a report by the Associated Press, a Toronto EMS worker noted that the appearance of their putrid, reanimated flesh made it difficult to judge the severity of the damage. Twelve victims were taken to hospital, although none of the injuries were life-threatening and no one got flattened into a Jill sandwich—although there was a series of injuries, including cracked ribs, a broken leg and a spinal injury (which wasn’t paralyzing, though Milla Jovovich did visit the victim, no doubt to finish the job—she does, after all, portray a zombie hunter). Seven of those zombies, numb to the damage their ragged bodies endured—or, not wanting to miss billable work hours—have already returned to the set. Read the entire story [Associated Press] »