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Zach Cregger's Resident Evil Fixes Fan Complaints With a New Raccoon City Story

yahoo.com — September 19, 2026 at 09:01 PM UTC

Zach Cregger's new "Resident Evil" movie has become the highest-rated video game film on Rotten Tomatoes, but some fans criticize it for not directly adapting the games' stories or featuring iconic characters like Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine. The 2021 film "Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City" directly addressed those complaints by faithfully adapting the first two games, including fan-favorite characters and iconic monsters, but it flopped critically and commercially, leading studios to pivot to Cregger's approach. Cregger's film instead tells a new story set during the events of "Resident Evil 2," focusing on a courier navigating Raccoon City, which the director argues captures the experience of playing the games rather than retelling their plots

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