{"id":405140,"date":"2026-04-30T14:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T14:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/405140\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T14:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T14:53:08","slug":"zach-creggers-resident-evil-unveils-terrifying-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/405140\/","title":{"rendered":"Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil Unveils Terrifying Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zach Cregger is on a roll right now. The rising horror director made a huge splash with the extraordinarily twisty-turny Barbarian<\/a>, and followed it up with last year\u2019s smash Weapons<\/a> \u2013 which, as well as garnering massive acclaim and a great box office haul, won as Oscar<\/a> for Amy Madigan. Now, he\u2019s already back with his next film: Resident Evil. The legendary video game saga has come to our screens many times before, in the Paul W.S. Anderson films<\/a>, in the reboot movie<\/a>, and in an ill-fated Netflix series<\/a>. But many fans would argue that the spirit of the games has never really successfully translated to the big screen \u2013 so, has Cregger finally cracked (or, cregged) it? Watch the trailer here:<\/p>\n

The film sees Cregger re-team with his Weapons star Austin Abrams, here playing a medical courier who finds himself caught up in some seriously spooky stuff. Abrams isn\u2019t playing any character from across the game series; Cregger co-wrote the film, alongside Shay Hatten, and has cooked up an original story with new characters, in a take described as \u201ca thrilling \u2014 and terrifying \u2014 reinvention\u201d of the franchise. Exactly what horrors await remain to be seen \u2013 but there are enough unsettling images in this first teaser alone to suggest we\u2019re in for a wild, wild ride.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, there isn\u2019t long to wait \u2013 Cregger\u2019s Resident Evil will be hitting cinemas on September 18, the perfect tee-up to spooky season. And it was filmed for IMAX too, so get ready to see Austin Abrams\u2019 terrified face on a gigantic screen. Now, who\u2019s up for rewatching Weapons again?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zach Cregger is on a roll right now. The rising horror director made a huge splash with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-405140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}