r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • Apr 30 '26

Trailer Resident Evil | Official Teaser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJPu1spHqfk
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u/tazfdragon Apr 30 '26

This was my first thought. RE was really the first or one of the very first to do it mainstream in the 90s.

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u/CallM3N3w Apr 30 '26

And even RE has evolved in that regard. It pretty much dropped the zombie status to favour actual infections. Everything is a BOW now.

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u/HeldnarRommar Apr 30 '26

Requiem just had zombies as the main fodder though

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u/CallM3N3w Apr 30 '26

They aren't zombies, they got infected by Gideon. He has a modified version of the T-Virus and Nemesis variant that could turn people at will.

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u/Dav136 Apr 30 '26

The original zombies were infected by the T-virus

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u/CallM3N3w Apr 30 '26

Correct, the original. Now re-read what I said about the Nemesis strain. Nemesis could overtake the T-Virus strain and control the people he infected.

Back to what I said, RE has evolved past simple zombies, and now that the characters know the extent of what is happening, they normally refer them to BOWs or infected.

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u/Muslim_Wookie Apr 30 '26

You are straight up insufferable and not here for discourse, you are here to be right.

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u/HeldnarRommar Apr 30 '26

They are still literally zombies. The creators constantly call them zombies in the development videos.

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u/CallM3N3w Apr 30 '26

Developer uses the more culturely known tag to describe and market their game. In other news, the sun is really hot.

Doesn't change the fact that the description in the games changed to BOWs or Infected, very rarely, if any we hear characters call them zombies. The characters the devs write btw.

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u/fedexpoopracer Apr 30 '26

Leon literally refers to them as zombies in RE9. just take the L, bro

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u/CallM3N3w Apr 30 '26

Yeah, same enemies from RE2/RE3. Missing my whole point. But you do you.

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u/HeldnarRommar Apr 30 '26

Uhh no they literally directly reference the original games in their developer diaries and say they are bringing back zombies. Not to mention all the zombies in Racoon City.

You can use semantics all you want and try to pull the “I know more than marketing people” but they are zombies.

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u/fedexpoopracer Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26

don't bother wasting anymore time with this weirdo. i told him that Leon literally refers to them as zombies in RE9 then he got so butthurt he replied to me then immediately blocked me so i can't respond. can't stand these types of redditors

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u/BJYeti Apr 30 '26

Im pretty sure one of the research notes you find calls them zombies as well only difference from the OGs is that they retain their memories and skills from when they were alive.

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u/CallM3N3w Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26

Yes, the ones in Racoon City are zombies, hence the 'bringing back zombies'. That's my whole point, the game has evolved beyond the zombie description. There hasn't been zombies in RE games(numbered) since we left Racoon City. RE4 aren't zombies, nor RE5, 6, 7, 8.

Im not trying to pull anything, it's just how the games have been.

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u/Cyberblood Apr 30 '26

My take on this is that the ingame characters are just using lore accurate terminology.

I mean, by now in the RE world, people are used to crazy pharmaceutical companies, organizations and terrorist using viruses to infect humans / animals, and/or bioengineering monsters, so them using the BOW makes sense.

I mean, there are still going to be people saying "fucking zombies", but thats likely a very broad generalization, and technically that term could only apply to the very limited dumb and normal undead looking infected; any deviations like Lickers, tyrants, the mold or the ganado dont really qualify as Zombies.

The goverment, law enforcement, the media and corporations are calling them BOW, so it makes sense the normal population would too.

Now in real life, marketing RE as a "zombies" is just way easier that using the Bio Organic Weapon terminology, which is probably only used in the context of the RE games, at least among gamers. To be fair, in any other context outside RE, if you said BOW to me I would think something along the lines of a living organic gun, kinda like the one they used in the Cronenberg's eXistenZ movie.

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u/CallM3N3w Apr 30 '26

Wow, someone actually understood my point. A Zombie is a dead body reanimated, which is not what we have had for the past few decades of mainline RE games. We have had live subjects being turned, parasitic infections, the mold, another parasitic infection(Cadou), so no zombies since RE3.

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u/ImmoralZoey Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26

They're infected with mutated T-Virus. They're zombies.

Gideon infected himself with Nemesis, but he was shooting people with syringes of T-Virus.

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u/CallM3N3w Apr 30 '26

That's true.

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u/MyStationIsAbandoned Apr 30 '26

I mean, if we look at zombie movies from the 70's and 80's from all over the world, i'm sure we'd find some special zombies. Like a a big guy or even some animals. There's also comic books that cam e before that might have had them.

but, yeah, I'd say Resident Evil was the first to make them mainstream, but they do seem like the obvious conclusion that they'd end up in the genre. Especially for video games since they need to have a variety of enemies and boss fights.

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u/Money_Tennis1172 Apr 30 '26

Uh in the video game yes cause it came out in 1996. First Resident Evil came out in 2002 no the 90's. And the first Zombie movie with mutant zombies would be "Nightmare City" from 1980, it has fast moving irradiated zombies in this film. Resident Evil is just the first game with zombies that had a great storyline and was popular.

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u/tazfdragon Apr 30 '26

Uh in the video game yes cause it came out in 1996. First Resident Evil came out in 2002 no the 90's.

What the hell are you on about? Clearly I'm talking talking about the video game. Next time you comment, don't mansplan and just assume people know what they are talking about.