The Resident Evil Reboot Quietly Promises What Game Fans Have Wanted for Years
Zach Cregger's Resident Evil reboot has a lot of fans excited, in large part because the director is promising a take on the property that's more faithful than past movies. For the last 30 years, the Resident Evil games have been scaring audiences, but adaptations have largely failed to capture the same sense of horror...
Zach Cregger's Resident Evil reboot has a lot of fans excited, in large part because the director is promising a take on the property that's more faithful than past movies. For the last 30 years, the Resident Evil games have been scaring audiences, but adaptations have largely failed to capture the same sense of horror. Multiple attempts have been made to bring Resident Evil to movies and TV, but each one made very different mistakes. Paul W.S. Anderson's Resident Evil films traded horror elements for action, with sequences that seemed to draw more inspiration from The Matrix than Capcom's video games.
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