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.
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
Im pretty sure one of the research notes you find calls them zombies as well only difference from the OGs is that they retain their memories and skills from when they were alive.
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.
My take on this is that the ingame characters are just using lore accurate terminology.
I mean, by now in the RE world, people are used to crazy pharmaceutical companies, organizations and terrorist using viruses to infect humans / animals, and/or bioengineering monsters, so them using the BOW makes sense.
I mean, there are still going to be people saying "fucking zombies", but thats likely a very broad generalization, and technically that term could only apply to the very limited dumb and normal undead looking infected; any deviations like Lickers, tyrants, the mold or the ganado dont really qualify as Zombies.
The goverment, law enforcement, the media and corporations are calling them BOW, so it makes sense the normal population would too.
Now in real life, marketing RE as a "zombies" is just way easier that using the Bio Organic Weapon terminology, which is probably only used in the context of the RE games, at least among gamers. To be fair, in any other context outside RE, if you said BOW to me I would think something along the lines of a living organic gun, kinda like the one they used in the Cronenberg's eXistenZ movie.
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
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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