{"id":439809,"date":"2026-05-22T09:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T09:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/439809\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T09:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T09:42:11","slug":"zach-cregger-addresses-criticism-of-his-resident-evil-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/439809\/","title":{"rendered":"Zach Cregger addresses criticism of his Resident Evil movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zach Cregger has addressed criticisms of his upcoming Resident Evil movie, as some fans find it doesn&#8217;t exactly reflect the experience of the games as they&#8217;d hoped. Cregger&#8217;s film recently shared its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamereactor.eu\/resident-evil-goes-full-horror-in-zack-creggers-eerie-teaser-of-the-upcoming-movie-1713083\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first trailer<\/a>, where he experienced what he calls a &#8220;divided&#8221; reaction for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel great about it. I really like the movie a lot,&#8221; Cregger told fellow horror director Curry Barker for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.interviewmagazine.com\/film\/curry-barker-zach-cregger-obsession\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Interview Magazine<\/a>. It&#8217;s clear from his statement that Cregger&#8217;s confidence isn&#8217;t knocked too much, though he does bring up the hate online.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been a wild week since the teaser came out to see the divided reaction online. There&#8217;s so many people that clearly really want the video game, meaning the characters and story from the video game, and anything different than that is really not welcomed. I didn&#8217;t realize how passionate some people were about that,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Despite there being some backlash, the Resident Evil movie is still in the hands of one of horror&#8217;s hottest directors right now. Coming off the back of Weapons, Cregger remains a Hollywood favourite, and a lot of us are intrigued by his unique take on Resident Evil, even if it looks markedly different from the games we&#8217;ve played before.<\/p>\n<p>Resident Evil releases in theatres on the 18th of September.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"img-1722463-4883713\" data-fullsize=\"\/media\/37\/_4883713b.jpg\" data-lazy=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamereactor.euhttps:\/\/www.gamereactor.eu\/media\/37\/_4883713_650x.jpg\" width=\"650\" onclick=\"if (!window.__cfRLUnblockHandlers) return false; gallery_openmodal('1722463','4883713',false,'ab511eda0c9d80d9f540e6fa8d04c409');\" height=\"366\" alt=\"Resident Evil\" class=\"rwd_col_content lazy\" data-cf-modified-2a9d2ac892d702d6f8827980-=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zach Cregger has addressed criticisms of his upcoming Resident Evil movie, as some fans find it doesn&#8217;t exactly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-439809","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\/439809","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=439809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}