Resident Evil reboot trailer - Zach Cregger takes the franchise in a new direction

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Sony finally released the trailer for the Zach Cregger directed Resident Evil reboot and it looks like a genuine departure from the Milla Jovovich era of the franchise. Austin Abrams plays a medical courier who gets pulled into an outbreak scenario, and the footage leans much more into practical horror and dread than the action heavy tone of the older films. Cregger coming off Barbarian and Weapons already has a reputation for building tension slowly before letting things spiral into chaos.

The zombie designs shown in this trailer look noticeably more grotesque and grounded than anything from the previous film series. There is a sequence with zombies falling from a building that has already become the most talked about clip from the whole campaign. It suggests Cregger is aiming for something closer to body horror than the more sanitized action beats fans might expect from the name alone.

What is interesting is how little the trailer relies on franchise nostalgia. No obvious Umbrella Corporation logos or classic character cameos show up in this cut, at least not that anyone has spotted yet. That could be a deliberate choice to establish this as its own thing before leaning into the wider mythology later on

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