Zach Cregger might not be your cup of tea, but his incredible gift behind the camera cannot be ignored. The writer/director comes armed with absolute terror and hilarity, two things that seem incompatible on the surface, yet he's able to blend seamlessly. And his latest horror film, "Resident Evil," is no different. BOX OFFICE COMEBACK: HOW SUMMER 2026 OFFERS A GLIMMER OF HOPE FOR HOLLYWOOD IN THE POST-COVID ERAAustin Abrams stars in Constantin Film and Columbia Pictures "Resident Evil," directed by Zach Cregger.
(Courtesy of Sony Pictures.)If "Resident Evil" sounds familiar, that's because it's a long-running video game franchise that turned into a long-running movie franchise starring Milla Jovovich. In this version of "Resident Evil," her character Alice is nowhere to be found.Instead, it stars Austin Abrams, who plays a medical courier named Bryan urgently tasked with delivering what he believes is a vital organ to a hospital in Raccoon City.'THE DOG STARS' REVIEW: JACOB ELORDI FIGHTS FOR SURVIVAL IN RIDLEY SCOTT'S DULL POST-APOCALYPTIC WESTERNWhat was supposed to be a quiet, uneventful drive devolves into a series of unfortunate events for Bryan, the cause of which stems from a lab leak of a virus (we all know how easily this can happen, right?) developed by the Umbrella Corporation that transforms organisms into what can only be described as ungodly monsters from the darkest of nightmares.Austin Abrams stars in Constantin Film and Columbia Pictures' "Resident Evil," directed by Zach Cregger.
(Dušan Martinček 2026 CTMG, Inc.All Rights Reserved)The "Resident Evil" movies we've been used to feature Jovovich being a gun-slinging badass with a zombie body count in the thousands.
Here, the scrawny Bryan can barely figure out how to turn the safety off.He's not your knight in shining armor — in fact, he's kind of an idiot.
Yet, there's something endearing and relatable about him. It was a bold choice for Cregger to cast Abrams as Bryan.You may recognize...