Sunday, November 7, 2021

The Resident Evil Movie Reboot Will Recreate This Iconic Zombie Moment

The upcoming Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City movie reboot will feature an iconic zombie sequence from the original video game. The first Resident Evil arrived on the PlayStation 1 back in 1996, and while Capcom's expectations were modest, it soon became a word-of-mouth smash. The story dealt with an elite law enforcement group dubbed S.T.A.R.S investigating an abandoned mansion and finding it filled with monsters. Instead of blasting through enemies, players had to make use of limited ammunition and items.

This style of genre was dubbed survival horror, with the surprise success of Resident Evil inspiring other titles like Silent Hill and Parasite Eve. Resident Evil itself would launch a franchise that is still running to this day, with 2021 seeing the arrival of both the video game Resident Evil Village and movie reboot Welcome To Raccoon City. This film has no links to the previous Milla Jovovich-led film series and instead combines the storylines of the first two games in the franchise.

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The Resident Evil 2 portion of the movie will apparently play like a zombie version of Assault On Precinct 13 - with John Carpenter being a favorite of Welcome To Raccoon City helmer Johannes Roberts - while the other section deals with S.T.A.R.S entering the mansion. While familiar characters like Jill Valentine, Chris Redfield and Albert Wesker will appear, details of which monsters will turn up are being kept mostly under wraps. What has been confirmed is that one of the most chilling moments of the original Resident Evil game, where the first zombie players encounter turns to look at them, will be recreated.

This moment occurs shortly after the first Resident Evil begins, with either Chris or Jill finding the zombie snacking on a fallen teammate. It has since been confirmed this scene will be recreated in Welcome To Raccoon City too, with actor Matthew MacCallum (Nightmare Alley) being cast in the role. The performer himself took to Twitter to state that not only was he playing "Turning Around Zombie," but he also said he specifically asked to play the part.

The fact this famous moment will be recreated speaks to the faithfulness Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City is taking in its approach. That said, while it will be fun for fans to see famous moments and scenes remade for the film, hopefully, it won't just lean on nostalgia and will inject its own new elements into the Resident Evil movie series too. The zombie turning around moment has been referenced in the game series many times, including the 2002 remake, Resident Evil 4 and there was even a callback to it in director Shinji Mikami's 2014 survival horror title The Evil Within.

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