Barbarian director Zach Cregger is sending Austin Abrams on a nonstop survival horror journey in Resident Evil, and its new MPA rating indicates it’ll be as gory as expected.
Resident Evil has officially received its expected ‘R’ rating for “strong bloody violence, gore and language throughout.”
The film is being billed as “a thrilling — and terrifying — reinvention of the Resident Evil franchise” from the mind of visionary filmmaker Cregger.
Austin Abrams (Weapons) stars as Bryan, a medical courier who unwittingly finds himself in a non-stop race for survival as one fateful, horrifying night collapses around him in chaos.
Zach Cherry (“Severance”), Kali Reis (“True Detective: Night Country”), Paul Walter Hauser (“Black Bird”), and Johnno Wilson (“Twisted Metal”) round out the cast.
Cregger has stated that his upcoming Resident Evil movie is “much more focused on the weird creature stuff than the zombies,” and that’s hinted at in brand new images below, giving a look at Paul Walter Hauser’s character and plenty of tentacles. Tentacles that might belong to the classic T-virus dog as glimpsed in a recent TV spot or something else entirely.
Those glimpses also support Cregger’s previous reveal that there would be very few zombies in comparison to T-virus mutants.
“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,” he teased.
Those mutant encounters should come fast and furious, according to the filmmaker. “It feels like one gigantic sequence,” the director previously said of the film’s nonstop structure. “Things pop off about five minutes in, and it basically stays like that until the end. What I love about the games is that you move from set-piece to set-piece. Every location has a unique challenge. So again, I’m borrowing from the games directly in that rhythm, where you’re just running through a gauntlet.”
Cregger directs from a script he co-wrote with Shay Hatten (John Wick: Chapters 3 & 4).
Austin Abrams (left) and Johnno Wilson star in Constantin Film and Columbia Pictures RESIDENT EVIL, directed by Zach Cregger. Photo by: Courtesy of Sony Pictures
