Despite living in the best era of video game adaptations (not a particularly high bar, considering what’s come before), it feels like we’re yet to get a truly fantastic adaptation of a beloved horror game. The best of the bunch, Christophe Gans’ Silent Hill movie, is still weighed down by flaws, and in the last few years, we’ve had missteps like back-to-back PG-13 Five Nights at Freddy’s movies and an adaptation of Until Dawn that drastically changed the story and plot mechanics.
The problem dates all the way back to Paul W.S. Anderson’s six-film adaptation of the Resident Evil franchise, movies that were financially successful but abandoned the tense, nerve-wracking terror of the original games in favor of Matrix-adjacent sci-fi action. Twenty-four years and two cinematic reboots later, and it finally seems like we’re getting a film interested in replicating the texture and atmosphere that made those first few games so scary (and from Zach Cregger of Barbarian and Weapons fame, no less). After months of waiting, the official teaser dropped earlier today, giving fans their first glimpse at the nightmare Cregger is cooking up in Raccoon City.
