Zach Cregger’s ‘Resident Evil’ Reboot Drops Intense First Trailer

Director Zach Cregger is coming off a major win after his 2025 horror hit Weapons pulled in $270 million worldwide on a $38 million budget. The film also earned an Oscar nomination and a win for Amy Madigan, putting Cregger on the map as a bankable name in horror. Now he is stepping into a well-known franchise with his next project, Resident Evil. This marks his first time working with an existing property, and early footage shows he is not playing it safe. RESIDENT EVIL – Official Trailer (4K) The story follows Bryan, played by Austin Abrams, a medical courier with no combat skills. He is tasked with delivering an organ through a snowy route when he hits a woman on the road. What seems like a bad accident quickly turns into something far worse when the woman gets back up and attacks. Bryan soon realizes he has entered Raccoon City during a dangerous outbreak. The city is overrun with mutations, and survival becomes his only goal. The new trailer from Sony Pictures Entertainment leans hard into that chaos, showing fast action and sudden bursts of violence. The film is expected to run about 95 minutes, making it one of the shortest entries in the franchise. Early test screenings sug...