I love the RE games and am replaying them. The TV shows and movies from the franchise are somewhat disappointing though. Instead, I would love to look at some alternatives (not from the RE franchise) that imbibe the raw horror that the series offers.

"28 days later" and "28 weeks later"?

Edit:
"REC" (Spain)

Resident Evil seems to be cursed, as every attempt to "adapt" them turns into the worst garbage imaginable.

The BBC News these days tbh

Try The Strain, at least in some degree

Raccoon City always looked like the kind of town the Winchester brothers might stroll through on a hunt, so Supernatural might qualify despite dealing more in Christian mythology and cryptids. X-Files too maybe, just switch out the Bible for xenophobic conspiracies.

The Walking Dead is less obviously schlock, but it shares the zombie theme of course.

Return of the Living Dead's comedy is more intentional, but it's also the best zombie movie ever made and the performances are every bit as memorable as any Resident Evil boss.

First thing that popped into my head too.
At least the first two seasons are definitely worth a watch.

Other than that - Train to Busan, maybe?

Hadn't the time yet to check it out, but The Sadness is supposed to be good. Quite brutal too.

It's amazing how many zombie apocalypse-themed TV shows and movies there are, but so few are decent. I mean the only zombie movies I liked or could be bothered finishing were the aforementioned 28 Days/Weeks Later films. Dawn of the Dead (2004) was alright though. Maybe I'm expecting too much from such a pulpy genre.

Plot-wise, that's pretty much a perfect adaptation of the games. ;D

The plots of RE 1-3 were straight foward and good enough (though their strength lay more in atmosphere, music and presentation). Code Veronica went off the rails a bit in parts. As for the other RE games, I honestly haven't played them. I played a bit of RE4, concluded that this was an action shooter game and not the adventure horror Resident Evil I knew and dropped it.

The first season of Walking Dead maybe.

Atmosphere and "presentation" (depending how one defines that) seem to be the only things that RE has ever done really well as a horror series. Well, and the general idea of scarcity of resources (early on, at least), though there were some bizarre things there, too. The stories, though, have always been full of an awkward mixture of anime/soap opera-level writing and brain-dead conspiracy tropes that I just can't take seriously. (Fuckin' Wesker....)
Basically, It was fine for a single game, but there were only so many things that could reasonably be done with the concept without treading the same path again or devolving into nonsense. (And RE wound up doing both of those things anyway over the course of ensuing games, films and what-have-you.) The premise as presented in the original game definitely didn't have the depth it would've taken to support a long-running multimedia franchise...but plenty of people were willing to buy whatever the IP owners were selling, so it became one anyway.

Go to the source and watch the original George Romero movies - Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, and Day of the Dead. They're literally the origin of every modern non-voodoo take on zombies. Romero was supposedly even in talks to make the first Resident Evil movie but it fell through.

I think the best way to do zombies in film is not to focus on the zombies, just keep them as an ever-present outside threat. Focus on the psychology of the survivors who are claustrophobically forced together in a small space to survive. That's what made 28 Days Later good, watching the humans psychologically break and become just as animalistic as the monsters. That stuff with the insane British soldiers trying to rape that young girl to "protect the species" was so horrifying yet it was cinematic gold.

Well. domples to domples, the Netflix adaptation was a complete shambles.

Feels like they:
A) Fed the series bible into a paper shredder.
B) Adapted an unrelated Young Adult Drama series.
C) Slapped Zombies in.
D) Occasionally called up Capcom to ask if they can use the Umbrella logo.

IS IT REALLY SO HARD TO MAKE AN ADAPTATION OF SWEET HOME, WHICH RESIDENT EVIL 1/BIOHAZARD WAS DIRECTLY INSPIRED BY?

Modern Horror is horrible, in the 90s they did much better stuff.