There are already seven Resident Evil movies, however all of them have been a really totally different type of factor than the brand new reboot from Zach Cregger, the director of Barbarian and Weapons.
These earlier Resident Evil films took a couple of of their cues from the video video games, however they have been rather more motion oriented than the video games, that are principally atmospheric and terrifying survival thrillers. Cregger’s Resident Evil isn’t about an unstoppable warrior girl killing droves of zombies with fancy martial arts strikes; it’s a couple of dude who will get caught up within the zombie apocalypse and mainly has to run for his life.
Based mostly on that premise and the brand new trailer, it looks as if one thing proper in Cregger’s wheelhouse. It stars Weapons’ Austin Abrams as a medical courier who will get right into a automotive accident after which is stranded in a home the place … y’know … zombie stuff begins taking place.
Watch the brand new Resident Evil trailer beneath:
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Even the way in which Abrams’ character has to discover a gun, nevertheless it has no bullets, so he has to go looking by means of the home earlier than he finds one field of ammo in a drawer, feels very true to the unique Resident Evil sport on PlayStation again in 1996. Simply the truth that there are barely some other characters apart from Abrams’ courier additionally feels very old skool about it; we}re speaking a stripped-down zombie gore extravaganza.
Right here is the movie’s official synopsis:
From the thoughts of visionary filmmaker Zach Cregger (Weapons, Barbarian) comes an exciting — 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, continuous race for survival as one fateful, horrifying evening collapses round him in chaos.
Resident Evil is scheduled to open in theaters on September 18.
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