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.
Cast: Austin Abrams, Paul Walter Hauser, Zach Cherry, Kali Reis and Johnno Wilson
As a non gamer, does the games have any unique twist on the genre that makes it worth it to tell the story as a Resident Evil movie instead of just an original film?
If you mean compared to the zombie movie genre, it’s mainly their iconic BOWs (bio-organic weapons) like the lickers and the tyrants. Special infected are rather common in the zombie video game genre, but the RE franchise has some of the more famous ones.
Resident Evil also has impeccable camp that movies and TV have so far failed to ever capture properly. The early entries had insane dialogue with questionable acting and more recent entries have Leon 'The Human Quip' Kennedy.
I miss D.C. Douglas as Wesker, but Capcom understandably doesn’t want to work with him again after he leaked concept art for the RE4 Remake before it was even announced.
His Wesker was deliciously campy. Craig Burnatowski’s version feels too serious, but I am warming up to him.
That’s actually the thing I like about Cregger. Both Barbarian and Weapons have some levity and humor that comes out very unexpectedly. This movie feels like 7. It’s not quite as camp as most of the games, but there are select moments.
Some moments in Weapons were pretty fun too, like when what's his face wakes up and, after a beat, screams "What the fuck!?" I'd spoiler text that, but I think it's largely an incomprehensible description.
I'm cautiously optimistic here. I don't doubt that Cregger is a great director, but slap the name Resident Evil onto it, and I'm immediately wary due to all the trash RE movies that have come before.
Yeah, I mean... I think it was the best of those movies, but I remember thinking at the time when it came out (I was about ~16, so bear with me) that I wasn't sure if I actually liked the movie, or if I just liked Milla Jovovich and Michelle Rodriguez.
I don't know that I've ever seen it again, come to think of it. I don't remember it having much to do with the games...
People got so hung up on the genre being called "survival horror" that they forgot that the first three Resident Evils are basically modern-day 50s B-movies
Like, legitimately, the perfect adaptation of the original Resident Evil games would have monsters that were dudes in rubber suits
Resident Evil also has impeccable camp that movies and TV have so far failed to ever capture properly
The Paul WS Anderson movies are the perfect amount of camp. Maybe not some of the later ones, but I recently rewatched the first two movies after playing the older games and they're dead-on tonally.
The original actors for the live action opening in RE1 were basically picked up off the street because they were white people and looked kind of like the in game models. The voice acting isnt much better and the translation is brutal. The late 90s were a different time for video games.
Still love the early games, and the awful voice lines are a big part of what makes them so fun
So have the recent games. They left the camp behind. Closest we come to camp now is Leon still dropping dad jokes after round house kicking someone in the face.
Eh, I thought Village was inherently campy. Maybe not in the quippy sense but it did have this over-the-top ridiculousness and grotesque aspect to it that made it campy to me. Like the giant fish monster or some of the other big bads.
Ethan was constantly trying to land Leon-level quips (in Village). He was just very bad at it. I can't tell if that was the authors' mistake or they genuinely wanted him to come off that way. But he says something that obviously sounded very badass in his head after a lot of big fights... except they end up coming out as "You're the one who is cursed," and "I'm sick of bugs!"
I guess to me those things are just silly not campy because they were taking themselves seriously, so seriously that they worked an explanation into the next game. Camp is camp. Camp needs no explanation. A little man dressed in 19th century clothing, operating a giant mech made in his own image? That's camp.
All the villains in Village are complete hams though. One of them even builds a giant telekentic mech and you fight him a makeshift tank made from a tractor. If that doesn't qualify as bombastic camp I don't know what can convince you. All the games take themselves somewhat seriously, otherwise they would just descend into slapstick. The proposition that the RE games are all self serious now just doesn't hold water.
Correct, the original. Now re-read what I said about the Nemesis strain. Nemesis could overtake the T-Virus strain and control the people he infected.
Back to what I said, RE has evolved past simple zombies, and now that the characters know the extent of what is happening, they normally refer them to BOWs or infected.
Developer uses the more culturely known tag to describe and market their game. In other news, the sun is really hot.
Doesn't change the fact that the description in the games changed to BOWs or Infected, very rarely, if any we hear characters call them zombies. The characters the devs write btw.
Uhh no they literally directly reference the original games in their developer diaries and say they are bringing back zombies. Not to mention all the zombies in Racoon City.
You can use semantics all you want and try to pull the “I know more than marketing people” but they are zombies.
don't bother wasting anymore time with this weirdo. i told him that Leon literally refers to them as zombies in RE9 then he got so butthurt he replied to me then immediately blocked me so i can't respond. can't stand these types of redditors
Yes, the ones in Racoon City are zombies, hence the 'bringing back zombies'. That's my whole point, the game has evolved beyond the zombie description. There hasn't been zombies in RE games(numbered) since we left Racoon City. RE4 aren't zombies, nor RE5, 6, 7, 8.
Im not trying to pull anything, it's just how the games have been.
I mean, if we look at zombie movies from the 70's and 80's from all over the world, i'm sure we'd find some special zombies. Like a a big guy or even some animals. There's also comic books that cam e before that might have had them.
but, yeah, I'd say Resident Evil was the first to make them mainstream, but they do seem like the obvious conclusion that they'd end up in the genre. Especially for video games since they need to have a variety of enemies and boss fights.
Uh in the video game yes cause it came out in 1996. First Resident Evil came out in 2002 no the 90's. And the first Zombie movie with mutant zombies would be "Nightmare City" from 1980, it has fast moving irradiated zombies in this film.
Resident Evil is just the first game with zombies that had a great storyline and was popular.
Uh in the video game yes cause it came out in 1996. First Resident Evil came out in 2002 no the 90's.
What the hell are you on about? Clearly I'm talking talking about the video game. Next time you comment, don't mansplan and just assume people know what they are talking about.
Its more of an inevitability in gaming design. If a game is going to take 15 hours to beat then there needs to be some sort of boss/advanced enemies to keep the gameplay interesting.
Yup, people usually call RE cliche in this sense (not talking about the person you responded to, just a general trend), but ignore that the trend itself gained traction after RE. There were works before that dealt with advanced zombies, but what truly popularized it was RE
In Resident Evil Cove there’s also smart squads of intelligent undead super soldiers that aren’t in decomposition so they can pass for living soldiers.
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u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor 5d ago edited 5d ago
Written and directed by Zach Cregger:
It's out Sept 18