The whole horror community is talking about Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil this week in the wake of the teaser trailer being unleashed, and Cregger himself has offered up a slew of insights in a trailer breakdown video on IGN. For starters, he revealed that his movie takes place during the events of Resident Evil 2, documenting the first night the T-Virus broke out.
And speaking of the T-Virus, Zach Cregger also reveals in his conversation with IGN this week that he’s far more interested in mutated monsters than traditional Resident Evil zombies.
Cregger explains, “This movie doesn’t utilize zombies that much. It’s much more focused on the weird creature stuff than the zombies. There’s really only two scenes, maybe three, where there’s proper zombie stuff going on. And two of those three are in the trailer.”
“But other than that… I wouldn’t call this like a zombie movie,” Cregger previews. “I just feel like, you have this opportunity for the T-Virus to do all these really fascinating things to the human body, and to the world around you, and so to just limit it to zombies feels like a squandered opportunity. So I tried to really vary it up.”
Cregger also details two of the monstrosities featured in the teaser trailer: the bloated sewer monster seen in the still image above, and the multi-limbed beast in the doorway.
First up, the “gigantic naked hairless man”…
Cregger teases, “I really love the idea of, you’re moving through a sewer, no idea what’s in front of you, and you come around a corner and see a gigantic, obese, naked, hairless man just sitting facing you. What is about to go down? What does go down, I am pretty happy with. Part of the inspiration for the look of this guy comes from Blood Meridian. So this is just my little nod to one of my favorite books. I don’t have a Nemesis in this movie. A gigantic, hulking terminator that’s following you. But this is also a little bit of a nod to the Nemesis.”
As for the multi-limbed doorway creature…
Cregger previews, “I don’t want to give too much away of whatever it is that’s coming out of the door. But I will say that there’s a mechanic I’ve put into this movie, it might be in some of the games, but it’s a way the infected interact with each other. It’s something that pursues him throughout the movie. I’m really excited for how this creature changes and evolves.”
Based on the iconic video game franchise, Resident Evil opens in theaters and IMAX on September 18 via Sony. The film is being billed as “a thrilling — and terrifying — reinvention of the Resident Evil franchise” from the mind of visionary filmmaker Zach Cregger.
Watch the teaser trailer for Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil below.
