Resident Evil movies are a hot-button topic simply because not a single one has been a wholly faithful adaptation so far. Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City features much of the iconography and characters fans of the first two Resident Evil games will recognize, but that initial visual familiarity is where its faithfulness ends.
That’s why Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil movie is so intriguing; the movie itself is not an adaptation of any of the games’ stories, but instead adapts the experience of playing a Resident Evil game (the experience of you playing, and not the protagonist who’s experiencing these horrors, per se), and is therefore arguably the best adaptation of the games we’ve received.
Ironically, the Resident Evil movie would make for a horrifying game, and one fan has taken it upon themselves to make it so.
As per Instagram, user chicanogoth is ambitiously recreating Cregger’s Resident Evil movie as an unofficial, PlayStation 1-style adaptation. So, what’s been shared is stunning: a clip depicting Bryan at the snowy, remote barn, and he’s even being chased by a dog (using a model of the Resident Evil 2 zombie Doberman). The atmosphere of this clip alone is fantastic, with static...
