The First Trailer for 'Resident Evil' Teases a New Nightmare

After making big waves last year with his splashy horror Weapons, Zach Cregger’s next project has been shrouded in mystery quite a bit for a film that’s meant to be in theaters in five months. But now, we finally have our first look at his spin on Resident Evil, and it certainly looks like it’s trying to thread a fine line between video game faithfulness and doing something different with its shambling hordes. After recently showing the teaser at CinemaCon, Sony has now released the full thing online for us all to see how Cregger is taking on the Capcom horror icon. Starring Austin Abrams from Weapons, the film follows Bryan, a medical courier trying to make a delivery to Raccoon City, only to find himself wrapped up in a night of terror. Likely thing to do if your destination is Raccoon City, honestly. Resident Evil is, of course, no stranger to movies, but Cregger’s spin definitely looks like it’s trying something a bit different—not really Paul W. S. Anderson’s out-there action take on the games, and far from the much-less-successful attempt to claw things back to more direct game influences with Johannes Roberts’ Welcome to Raccoon City back in 2021. Instead, it’s taking the br