Resident Evil has spent more than two decades trying to work out what it wants to be on the big screen. Paul W.S. Anderson's films turned the games into increasingly enormous action spectacles centred on Milla Jovovich's Alice. Welcome to Raccoon City attempted a more recognisable recreation of game locations and characters. Now Barbarian and Weapons filmmaker Zach Cregger has taken a third route. His new Resident Evil opened in cinemas on 18 September 2026, starring Austin Abrams as Bryan, a medical courier who finds himself entering a nightmare around Raccoon City. The crucial difference is that Cregger is not