Director: Zach Cregger

Cast: Austin Abrams, Zach Cherry, Kali Reis, Paul Walter Hauser

Synopsis:

From the mind of visionary filmmaker Zach Cregger (Weapons, Barbarian) comes a thrilling - and terrifying - reinvention of the Resident Evil franchise. In an all-new story, Resident Evil follows Bryan (Austin Abrams), a medical courier who unwittingly finds himself in an action-packed, non-stop race for survival as one fateful, horrifying night collapses around him in chaos.

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After eight movies and a TV series, the popular video game Resident Evil has been wrung dry in non-game media. But like Hannah Einbinder’s character in Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, hired to breathe life into “zombie IP,” director and co-writer Zach Cregger brings his trademark horror-comedy combo to the goings-on at the Umbrella Corporation, resulting in a sprightly, terrifying, and utterly entertaining hunk of blood-candy that will no doubt give the franchise another go-round.

Having never played the game nor seen any of the earlier movies, I cannot speak to how this Resident Evil fits in the overall scheme of the property. (There will, no doubt, be many reviews that will dig deep into this history.) What I can say is that this brisk 90-minute thriller plays like a great series pilot: it builds the world, establishes the crisis, and carves out time to create meaningful personal stakes for its protagonist.

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