{"id":13553,"date":"2026-05-02T23:46:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T23:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/02\/new-resident-evil-movies-trailer-looks-like-generic-horror-and-feels-nothing-like-resident-evil-giantfreakinrobot-com\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T23:46:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T23:46:40","slug":"new-resident-evil-movies-trailer-looks-like-generic-horror-and-feels-nothing-like-resident-evil-giantfreakinrobot-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/02\/new-resident-evil-movies-trailer-looks-like-generic-horror-and-feels-nothing-like-resident-evil-giantfreakinrobot-com\/","title":{"rendered":"New Resident Evil Movie's Trailer Looks Like Generic Horror And Feels Nothing Like Resident Evil – giantfreakinrobot.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBy Jennifer Asencio<\/a> \t\t\t\t\t\t | Published Resident Evil<\/a><\/em>,\u201d and there is merit to this complaint. The other Resident Evil films were action-horror, while this one looks like straight horror. There are no familiar characters like Alice, Leon Kennedy, Jill Valentine, Chris Redfield, or the STARS team. Even many of the monsters are different from those in the other movies and the games. There is no sign of the licentious Umbrella Corporation.
What IS \u201cResident Evil\u201d about it is the survival horror aspect. Fans of survival horror movies and games will recognize the foraging and exploring Bryan has to do in the house to collect the items he needs to defend himself and survive. These items include things like car keys, random firearms with handy ammo just lying around, and \u201chealing items\u201d like Band-aids or food. Survival horror fans will thrill over Bryan\u2019s adventures, but the trailer that has been released does not make an obvious connection to the source material, a fact that has annoyed quite a few fans. And they\u2019re not complaining that it\u2019s not a good-looking movie, just that it is not a movie from the famous franchise.
However, the movie has a mark of horror prestige in the form of Zach Cregger, coming freshly from the success of the acclaimed movie Barbarian<\/em> and the Oscar-winning Weapons<\/em>. Cregger wrote both those movies in addition to directing them, and, while he has help from writer Shay Hatten, he has definitely proven his own mettle as a great horror director. Hatten\u2019s presence should assuage fans who are worried about it not being an action film, too, since he is the mind behind the last three John Wick sequels, the Wick-adjacent Ballerina<\/em>, and the Zack Snyder<\/a> Army of the Dead<\/em> movies.
So, to people worried that this film doesn\u2019t have the feel of the Resident Evil franchise, I can only say: just wait. Remember that a franchise isn\u2019t just about existing fans; it\u2019s also about drawing in new fans, and to do that, franchises must constantly reinvent themselves, or they become dry and predictable, like the\u00a0MCU<\/a>.<\/span> This is only the first trailer and only represents about two minutes of movie time. Resident Evil<\/em> is a horror franchise at its core, and I am positive that Zach Cregger is not going to kill his strong momentum by delivering a film that alienates fans, no matter how different this early trailer might seem from the source material.
Resident Evil<\/em> will be in theaters on September 18, 2026. Catch it before the infection spreads.
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By Jennifer Asencio | Published 1 hour ago Fans of the Resident Evil franchise have had a slew of video games and several movies to satisfy their craving. The iconic Alice, played by Milla Jovovich, appeared in five movies between 2002 and 2016, and a sixth movie was a prequel that explored the origins of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13553","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}