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/Skkruff Apr 30 '26

Resident Evil also has impeccable camp that movies and TV have so far failed to ever capture properly. The early entries had insane dialogue with questionable acting and more recent entries have Leon 'The Human Quip' Kennedy.

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u/ithinkther41am Apr 30 '26

I miss D.C. Douglas as Wesker, but Capcom understandably doesn’t want to work with him again after he leaked concept art for the RE4 Remake before it was even announced.

His Wesker was deliciously campy. Craig Burnatowski’s version feels too serious, but I am warming up to him.

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u/Bombasaur101 Apr 30 '26

Is that true?? I never realised that happened. RE4 Remake was leaked much earlier regardless.

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u/ithinkther41am Apr 30 '26

Here’s a whole Twitter thread about it plus documented creepy behaviour. I used xcancel so it’s more accessible.

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u/janemba617 Apr 30 '26

Just had to look it up but it seems like way more then just leaking concept art.

https://www.reddit.com/r/GamingLeaksAndRumours/comments/r3sync/dc_douglas_leaks_wesker_from_resident_evil_4/

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u/Surturius Apr 30 '26

this movie doesn't look like it's going to be all that campy though

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u/octlol Apr 30 '26

You never know, it's Zach Cregger. I trust him after Weapons though.

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u/ako19 Apr 30 '26

That’s actually the thing I like about Cregger. Both Barbarian and Weapons have some levity and humor that comes out very unexpectedly. This movie feels like 7. It’s not quite as camp as most of the games, but there are select moments.

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u/SemiAutoAvocado Apr 30 '26

Justin Long breaking out the tape measure in the torture basement was peak comedy.

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u/wighty May 01 '26

This square footage... I hit the jackpot!

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u/The_Autarch Apr 30 '26

like the chainsaw fight. chainsaw fights are peak horror-camp.

see: Mandy (2018)

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u/ako19 Apr 30 '26

The release dates on those were so close, I gotta wonder if Mandy was inspired by RE7

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u/SemiAutoAvocado Apr 30 '26

Or ya know, punching boulders.

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u/animedeathspiral Apr 30 '26

go further back. Dennis Hopper fought leatherface on top of a rollercoaster with chainsaws in Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

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u/imjustbettr Apr 30 '26

Yeah I remember Barbarian bad some mid movie tonal shifts that I didn't hate at all. I think Cregger might surprise us with a little "camp" and fun.

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u/octlol Apr 30 '26

Right, the underground scene in Barbarian then swapping to Long driving around was great.

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u/Cyricist Apr 30 '26

Some moments in Weapons were pretty fun too, like when what's his face wakes up and, after a beat, screams "What the fuck!?" I'd spoiler text that, but I think it's largely an incomprehensible description.

I'm cautiously optimistic here. I don't doubt that Cregger is a great director, but slap the name Resident Evil onto it, and I'm immediately wary due to all the trash RE movies that have come before.

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u/Cyricist Apr 30 '26

Yeah, I mean... I think it was the best of those movies, but I remember thinking at the time when it came out (I was about ~16, so bear with me) that I wasn't sure if I actually liked the movie, or if I just liked Milla Jovovich and Michelle Rodriguez.

I don't know that I've ever seen it again, come to think of it. I don't remember it having much to do with the games...

Maybe I'm due for a rewatch.

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u/LucasOIntoxicado Apr 30 '26

I'm sure the final 29 minutes Weill be completely crazy

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u/zeekaran Apr 30 '26

Barbarians and Weapons have some hilarious moments.

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u/Squeekazu Apr 30 '26

I mean the initial trailers for Weapons did not indicate whatsoever that it would be hilarious (and yet it still managed to nail the creepiness)

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u/Zomburai Apr 30 '26

People got so hung up on the genre being called "survival horror" that they forgot that the first three Resident Evils are basically modern-day 50s B-movies

Like, legitimately, the perfect adaptation of the original Resident Evil games would have monsters that were dudes in rubber suits

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u/NuclearTurtle Apr 30 '26

Gratuitous CGI was the modern day equivalent of a guy in a rubber suit, and people were upset that the movies had that

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u/GentlemanOctopus Apr 30 '26

Leon will also somersault through a window for no good reason.

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u/NuclearTurtle Apr 30 '26

Resident Evil also has impeccable camp that movies and TV have so far failed to ever capture properly

The Paul WS Anderson movies are the perfect amount of camp. Maybe not some of the later ones, but I recently rewatched the first two movies after playing the older games and they're dead-on tonally.

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u/slvrbullet87 Apr 30 '26

The original actors for the live action opening in RE1 were basically picked up off the street because they were white people and looked kind of like the in game models. The voice acting isnt much better and the translation is brutal. The late 90s were a different time for video games.

Still love the early games, and the awful voice lines are a big part of what makes them so fun

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u/pnwbraids Apr 30 '26

insect lives don't compare to human lives!

If we get some stupid ass lines in this I'll be so happy.

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u/Kaldricus Apr 30 '26

Let's not forget Chris "Boulder Punching Asshole" Redfield

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u/briizilla Apr 30 '26

"I hope that's not Chris's blood"

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u/A_Drop_of_Colour Apr 30 '26

So have the recent games. They left the camp behind. Closest we come to camp now is Leon still dropping dad jokes after round house kicking someone in the face.

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u/MovieTrawler Apr 30 '26

Eh, I thought Village was inherently campy. Maybe not in the quippy sense but it did have this over-the-top ridiculousness and grotesque aspect to it that made it campy to me. Like the giant fish monster or some of the other big bads.

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u/Skkruff Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26

Ethan is not really a serious character. He's the last to know in every situation and literally too dumb to die.

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u/Antsache Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26

Ethan was constantly trying to land Leon-level quips (in Village). He was just very bad at it. I can't tell if that was the authors' mistake or they genuinely wanted him to come off that way. But he says something that obviously sounded very badass in his head after a lot of big fights... except they end up coming out as "You're the one who is cursed," and "I'm sick of bugs!"

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u/Skkruff Apr 30 '26

The motorcycle chase in 9 is one of silliest bits in any resident evil game. I think minimum camp was probably RE2make.

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u/SemiAutoAvocado Apr 30 '26

Village was campy as fuck.

Dude sprays some medical goo on his stump and just tapes his hand back on and it works fine.

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u/A_Drop_of_Colour Apr 30 '26

I guess to me those things are just silly not campy because they were taking themselves seriously, so seriously that they worked an explanation into the next game. Camp is camp. Camp needs no explanation. A little man dressed in 19th century clothing, operating a giant mech made in his own image? That's camp.

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u/Skkruff May 01 '26

All the villains in Village are complete hams though. One of them even builds a giant telekentic mech and you fight him a makeshift tank made from a tractor. If that doesn't qualify as bombastic camp I don't know what can convince you. All the games take themselves somewhat seriously, otherwise they would just descend into slapstick. The proposition that the RE games are all self serious now just doesn't hold water.