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 broader premise of Resident Evil (and more generally, the idea of some poor random person having their life turned upside down by one chance encounter with the kind of messed-up things Resident Evil is known for) and doing something that feels in that vein, if not an outright adaptation.
Cregger’s made a big deal out of wanting to do Resident Evil right by its fans—especially off of the back of the release of Resident Evil Requiem becoming one of the breakout out gaming hits of 2026 so far—and making sure this all fits into the series’ overarching world, but here at least it looks like he’s trying to carve out something new within that.
Resident Evil is set to hit theaters September 18.
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