In ‘Resident Evil,’ Zach Cregger Literally Dropped Human-Sized Bags of Blood Six Stories
In Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil, which is 90 minutes long, there’s a point where the main character, Bryan (Austin Abrams), is walking down the street. Zombies then start jumping off buildings down toward him. And you might be thinking, how did they do that?
- ▪In Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil, which is 90 minutes long, there’s a point where the main character, Bryan (Austin Abrams), is walking down the street.
- ▪Zombies then start jumping off buildings down toward him.
- ▪And you might be thinking, how did they do that?
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In Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil, which is 90 minutes long, there’s a point where the main character, Bryan (Austin Abrams), is walking down the street. Zombies then start jumping off buildings down toward him. It’s basically raining zombies. And you might be thinking, how did they do that? Well, he actually made it rain zombies. During Collider’s “Directors on Directing” panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2026, Cregger talked about the hardest scene he’s done in his career. And he focused on this one from the upcoming Resident Evil. “[Austin is] running and they’re just detonating all around him, and it’s this really long gauntlet of leaping over cars and bodies exploding,” Cregger said. “And I didn’t want to do it with VFX.
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