MOVIE NEWS – We still have not seen a single public frame from the new Resident Evil movie, but based on what has now come out of Sony’s closed-door CinemaCon screening, Zach Cregger is clearly not making a timid reboot. That earlier rumor comparing it to Mad Max: Fury Road with zombies suddenly does not sound exaggerated at all.

According to descriptions from the event, the trailer opens with Austin Abrams walking alone through a snowy landscape toward what appears to be an empty house. Once inside, he uses a landline phone to apologize to someone close to him, saying that some things have happened. From there, the teaser quickly escalates into a far more frantic survival nightmare: the protagonist runs in panic, slams a barn door shut behind him, grabs a shotgun, and then tries to wrest car keys from a corpse that begins moving in a deeply unsettling way. In other words, the film does not seem interested in easing viewers gently into its world.

It Sounds Like a Raw, Claustrophobic Survival Horror Film

An Entertainment Weekly journalist said the trailer is packed with rapid flashes of increasingly disturbing imagery. There is a bloated zombie lurking in the sewers, an overturned police car, and creatures hurling themselves from buildings onto parked vehicles. The overall tone points toward something much harsher, more claustrophobic, and far more survival-focused than many of the franchise’s previous screen adaptations. The emphasis appears to be on a single protagonist trapped in an extreme journey from point A to point B, assuming he can even survive long enough to make it that far.

That description only strengthens the earlier comparison to Mad Max: Fury Road, except filtered through infection, mutation, and zombie horror. Cregger himself has already made it clear that he has spent an embarrassing number of hours with the games and that what he loves most is the atmosphere, the pacing, the resource management, and the constant sense of dread. So even if this movie tells an original story, he insists that it still aims to preserve the core DNA of Resident Evil.

Its Release Is Not Far Away

The film stars Austin Abrams alongside Paul Walter Hauser, Zach Cherry, and Kali Reis, with a script co-written by Cregger and Shay Hatten. This new Resident Evil is set to arrive in theaters on September 18, 2026, which means it is closer than many people probably realize. The trailer shown behind closed doors will likely emerge publicly in the coming weeks, or perhaps be replaced by a different one altogether. Either way, the descriptions so far suggest this is not shaping up to be a cautious, overly sanitized reboot.

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