Resident Evil (2026)

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Wikidata Q136565785, film, IMDb tt35538033, TMDB 1423191: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Zach Cregger as director (‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips!).

The shows' “Resident Evil” is more than one work, told apart episode by episode: this one in 1 episode; Resident Evil (2002) in 7 episodes.

What a model would be handed about it, for corpus:ask.

In the store as #540, Resident Evil (2026).

Who talked about it

The Big Picture

Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Die Hard: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (homage): Die Hard ⇒ Resident Evil (the host's read). The shoes-melting beat is called a Die Hard nod (walking on broken glass).
    “You have that wonderful diehard nod where his shoes are starting to melt and he has to take his shoes off.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:00:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Evil Dead II: 1 line the maker said so ×1

  1. lineage (tonal influence): Evil Dead II ⇒ Resident Evil (the maker said so: a conversation with Cregger on the show last year). Cregger said he wanted an Evil Dead 2 style rock-em sock-em movie and got crazy with the camera.
    “I'm doing it because I think this movie is going to be fucking awesome.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:21:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

John Carpenter: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (influence): John Carpenter ⇒ Resident Evil (the host's read). Carpenter looms over the movie; it sits in a lineage with Romero, 28 Days Later, Alien, Cronenberg.
    “It's very obvious the way that Carpenter looms over a movie like this.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:43:16 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)

The Thing: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (homage): The Thing ⇒ Resident Evil (the host's read). The farmhouse sequence and the dog at the barn are homages to Carpenter's The Thing.
    “You can see the homage to Carpenters the Thing in all this part.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:40:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Weapons: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. unmapped (respectability): Weapons ⇒ Resident Evil (the host's read). Weapons made a witch-flesh-tearing movie respectable; Resident Evil may do the same for movies like it.
    “this is like gonna kind of make movies like this respectable.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:21:15 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

No line says another film or person drew on it.

Connected to

Die Hard: 2 lines theme ×1 lineage ×1

  1. theme (character comp): Resident Evil → Die Hard. Abrams's Brian reminded the speaker of John McClane, with humor built from the experience; the elevator shoe-melting is a Die Hard nod.
    “He's not as cool and he's not as accomplished with a gun, but he kind of reminded me a little John McClain at times.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:29:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)

The Thing: 2 lines craft ×1 lineage ×1

  1. craft (creature design): Resident Evil → The Thing. The little girl turns into the dog from The Thing.
    “as does this girl who turns into the dog from the thing.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:38:55 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)

Weapons: 2 lines contrast ×1 unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (respectability): Resident Evil → Weapons. Weapons made a witch-flesh-tearing movie respectable; Resident Evil may do the same for movies like it.
    “this is like gonna kind of make movies like this respectable.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:21:15 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

28 Days Later: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Resident Evil → 28 Days Later. Listed among strands to pull from: Romero zombies, 28 Days Later, Alien, Cronenberg body horror.
    “You could pull the Romero zombie movies.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:43:23 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)

Aliens: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (creature/set-piece comp): Resident Evil → Aliens. The elevator ascent and maternity ward pods recall Alien and Aliens; xenomorphs coming out of the wall.
    “this is really where a lot of the alien and aliens stuff starts to come in”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:58:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)

Back to the Future: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (performance comp): Resident Evil → Back to the Future. Abrams's quality recalls Michael J. Fox's in a non-horror film.
    “Now Back to the Future is not a horror movie.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:29:57 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Barbarian: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (comedy-horror): Barbarian → Resident Evil. Barbarian's Justin Long convertible cut is a horror-comedy peak, but sustaining it is tough.
    “barbarian is like the hard cut to Justin Long singing along in the convertible”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:34:47 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Boogie Nights: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (rewatchability): Resident Evil → Boogie Nights. Listing the film's scenes reminded the speaker of prepping the Boogie Nights Rewatchables: every scene is the best scene.
    “most rewatchable scene is every scene.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:45:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Charlie Chaplin: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (silent-comedy lineage): Resident Evil → Charlie Chaplin. The design recalls Chaplin and Keaton's slip-and-fall, rooted-for ne'er-do-well.
    “there's so much Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton to me in the design of the movie”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:30:19 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)

Evil Dead: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (performance comp): Resident Evil → Evil Dead. Online commenters compare Austin Abrams to Bruce Campbell in Evil Dead.
    “a lot of people have compared, uh, this character and this performance to Bruce Campbell and Evil Dead.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:29:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Evil Dead II: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (tonal influence): Resident Evil → Evil Dead II. Cregger said he wanted an Evil Dead 2 style rock-em sock-em movie and got crazy with the camera.
    “I'm doing it because I think this movie is going to be fucking awesome.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:21:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

Fargo: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (structural comp): Resident Evil → Fargo. Showing the opening crash scene in the trailer is like showing Fargo's opening crime scene.
    “it almost is like he's recreating that.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:36:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Freaked: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (creature design): Resident Evil → Freaked. Abrams's final monster looks like Alex Winter's monster from Freaked.
    “It looks like Alex Winters is monster from Freaked.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:06:37 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)

Fright Night: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (horror-comedy short list): Resident Evil → Fright Night. Gore plus comedy that works is an extremely short list: Fright Night, American Werewolf, Shaun of the Dead.
    “Like, it's like fright night, an American werewolf in London.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:33:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

George A. Romero: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (influence): Resident Evil → George A. Romero. The skyscraper stage recalls later Romero films where a whole city is overrun.
    “the more elevated later Romero movies where it feels like an entire city has been taken over.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:54:00 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Get Out: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (structural comp): Resident Evil → Get Out. Chris cites Get Out's opening lonely-road accident as a box-checking scary space like the film's opening.
    “get out very famously, more or less opens with an accident like that on a lonely road”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:53:33 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)

Green Room: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Resident Evil → Green Room. Without the comedy release valve it would be as upsetting as Green Room or Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
    “otherwise it's like you're watching Green Room. You're watching, you know, Texas Chainsaw Massacre.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:52:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Jackie Brown: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career-position comp): Resident Evil → Jackie Brown. Resident Evil is to Cregger as Jackie Brown (third film, stripped-down, source material) was to Tarantino.
    “It is kind of like Jackie Brown.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:12:41 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

John Carpenter: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (influence): Resident Evil → John Carpenter. Carpenter looms over the movie; it sits in a lineage with Romero, 28 Days Later, Alien, Cronenberg.
    “It's very obvious the way that Carpenter looms over a movie like this.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:43:16 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)

Lone Wolf & Cub: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (avoided trope): Resident Evil → Lone Wolf & Cub. Sean feared the girl would become a Lone Wolf and Cub companion; the film does the opposite.
    “is this going to be fucking lone wolf and cub again?”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:38:08 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Obsession: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (box-office comp): Resident Evil → Obsession. Obsession was also disgusting and a huge sensation, showing gross horror can have a high ceiling.
    “obsession is also disgusting at times, and it is a huge sensation.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:10:41 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Punch-Drunk Love: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career comp): Resident Evil → Punch-Drunk Love. The film is Cregger's Punch-Drunk Love: a more direct follow-up after a bigger film, though Punch-Drunk Love feels more weighed down by feelings.
    “this would be his punch drunk love.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:11:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Re-Animator: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (genre comp): Resident Evil → Re-Animator. The finale slips into science-lab horror with a bit of Re-Animator.
    “you get a little bit of, like, reanimator.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:06:27 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)

The Last of Us: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (adaptation benchmark): Resident Evil → The Last of Us. Chris sees it as a breakthrough for video-game films, like The Last of Us for TV.
    “I see this movie as, it is the last of us 4 movies”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:20:44 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (2)

  1. career (career comp): Resident Evil → Punch-Drunk Love. The film is Cregger's Punch-Drunk Love: a more direct follow-up after a bigger film, though Punch-Drunk Love feels more weighed down by feelings.
    “this would be his punch drunk love.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:11:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. career (career-position comp): Resident Evil → Jackie Brown. Resident Evil is to Cregger as Jackie Brown (third film, stripped-down, source material) was to Tarantino.
    “It is kind of like Jackie Brown.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:12:41 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

contrast (2)

  1. contrast (structure contrast): Resident Evil → Weapons. Weapons chopped the story across perspectives; Resident Evil is linear through one guy's eyes, but both make you want to recap the beats.
    “This movie is as linear as they come.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:45:24 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): Resident Evil → Green Room. Without the comedy release valve it would be as upsetting as Green Room or Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
    “otherwise it's like you're watching Green Room. You're watching, you know, Texas Chainsaw Massacre.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:52:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

craft (4)

  1. craft (structural comp): Resident Evil → Fargo. Showing the opening crash scene in the trailer is like showing Fargo's opening crime scene.
    “it almost is like he's recreating that.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:36:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. craft (creature design): Resident Evil → The Thing. The little girl turns into the dog from The Thing.
    “as does this girl who turns into the dog from the thing.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:38:55 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. craft (structural comp): Resident Evil → Get Out. Chris cites Get Out's opening lonely-road accident as a box-checking scary space like the film's opening.
    “get out very famously, more or less opens with an accident like that on a lonely road”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:53:33 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. craft (creature design): Resident Evil → Freaked. Abrams's final monster looks like Alex Winter's monster from Freaked.
    “It looks like Alex Winters is monster from Freaked.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:06:37 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)

industry (1)

  1. industry (box-office comp): Resident Evil → Obsession. Obsession was also disgusting and a huge sensation, showing gross horror can have a high ceiling.
    “obsession is also disgusting at times, and it is a huge sensation.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:10:41 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

lineage (8)

  1. lineage (tonal influence): Resident Evil → Evil Dead II. Cregger said he wanted an Evil Dead 2 style rock-em sock-em movie and got crazy with the camera.
    “I'm doing it because I think this movie is going to be fucking awesome.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:21:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (silent-comedy lineage): Resident Evil → Charlie Chaplin. The design recalls Chaplin and Keaton's slip-and-fall, rooted-for ne'er-do-well.
    “there's so much Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton to me in the design of the movie”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:30:19 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (homage): Resident Evil → The Thing. The farmhouse sequence and the dog at the barn are homages to Carpenter's The Thing.
    “You can see the homage to Carpenters the Thing in all this part.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:40:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. lineage (influence): Resident Evil → John Carpenter. Carpenter looms over the movie; it sits in a lineage with Romero, 28 Days Later, Alien, Cronenberg.
    “It's very obvious the way that Carpenter looms over a movie like this.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:43:16 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
  5. lineage (lineage): Resident Evil → 28 Days Later. Listed among strands to pull from: Romero zombies, 28 Days Later, Alien, Cronenberg body horror.
    “You could pull the Romero zombie movies.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:43:23 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
  6. lineage (influence): Resident Evil → George A. Romero. The skyscraper stage recalls later Romero films where a whole city is overrun.
    “the more elevated later Romero movies where it feels like an entire city has been taken over.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:54:00 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  7. lineage (homage): Resident Evil → Die Hard. The shoes-melting beat is called a Die Hard nod (walking on broken glass).
    “You have that wonderful diehard nod where his shoes are starting to melt and he has to take his shoes off.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:00:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  8. lineage (adaptation benchmark): Resident Evil → The Last of Us. Chris sees it as a breakthrough for video-game films, like The Last of Us for TV.
    “I see this movie as, it is the last of us 4 movies”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:20:44 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

people (2)

  1. people (performance comp): Resident Evil → Evil Dead. Online commenters compare Austin Abrams to Bruce Campbell in Evil Dead.
    “a lot of people have compared, uh, this character and this performance to Bruce Campbell and Evil Dead.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:29:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. people (performance comp): Resident Evil → Back to the Future. Abrams's quality recalls Michael J. Fox's in a non-horror film.
    “Now Back to the Future is not a horror movie.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:29:57 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

theme (3)

  1. theme (character comp): Resident Evil → Die Hard. Abrams's Brian reminded the speaker of John McClane, with humor built from the experience; the elevator shoe-melting is a Die Hard nod.
    “He's not as cool and he's not as accomplished with a gun, but he kind of reminded me a little John McClain at times.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:29:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  2. theme (avoided trope): Resident Evil → Lone Wolf & Cub. Sean feared the girl would become a Lone Wolf and Cub companion; the film does the opposite.
    “is this going to be fucking lone wolf and cub again?”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:38:08 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. theme (genre comp): Resident Evil → Re-Animator. The finale slips into science-lab horror with a bit of Re-Animator.
    “you get a little bit of, like, reanimator.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:06:27 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)

unmapped (5)

  1. unmapped (rewatchability): Resident Evil → Boogie Nights. Listing the film's scenes reminded the speaker of prepping the Boogie Nights Rewatchables: every scene is the best scene.
    “most rewatchable scene is every scene.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:45:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (creature/set-piece comp): Resident Evil → Aliens. The elevator ascent and maternity ward pods recall Alien and Aliens; xenomorphs coming out of the wall.
    “this is really where a lot of the alien and aliens stuff starts to come in”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:58:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (respectability): Resident Evil → Weapons. Weapons made a witch-flesh-tearing movie respectable; Resident Evil may do the same for movies like it.
    “this is like gonna kind of make movies like this respectable.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:21:15 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. unmapped (horror-comedy short list): Resident Evil → Fright Night. Gore plus comedy that works is an extremely short list: Fright Night, American Werewolf, Shaun of the Dead.
    “Like, it's like fright night, an American werewolf in London.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:33:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. unmapped (comedy-horror): Barbarian → Resident Evil. Barbarian's Justin Long convertible cut is a horror-comedy peak, but sustaining it is tough.
    “barbarian is like the hard cut to Justin Long singing along in the convertible”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:34:47 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Resident Evil: Cregger told Sean the film would be a rock-em sock-em, brain-off Evil Dead 2 style movie, nothing like Barbarian and Weapons. Sean regrets asking him why he was making a franchise film right after Weapons.
    “I took a little bit of an attitude with him.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:20:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Resident Evil: At the Century City screening, Sean and Chris were put in separate rooms; they locked eyes after and both knew they had one.
    “we both were wide-eyed, and we knew.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:21:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Resident Evil: Runs 87 minutes and Chris did not want it to end; every movie in 2026 feels too long.
    “I cannot remember the last time I was in a movie and felt, God, this is moving too fast.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:23:31 · Chris Ryan (0.70 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Resident Evil: The title credits do not appear until after the 20 minute mark; most of the trailer is from the first 20 minutes.
    “the title credits don't appear until after the 20 minute mark”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:35:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Resident Evil: Brian shoots the bitten girl who turns into a lizard-footed tentacle monster, rather than becoming Lone Wolf and Cub; Sean wanted to applaud as the father of a daughter.
    “He blows that fucking girl's head off.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:38:28 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Resident Evil: A running padlock gag: giant truck caught in a padlocked gate, the first of many padlocks that stymie Brian.
    “the 1st of many padlocks that stymie him throughout this movie.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:41:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about Resident Evil: A screening audience member shouted 'kill it' when Brian meets the little girl in the RV, breaking the seal on the laughter.
    “Someone shouted out, kill it.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:41:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about Resident Evil: The rat sequence: a huge zombie explodes into hundreds of rats; Chris's rat fear traces to New York apartment mice, and he is grateful they did not form a rat king.
    “the rats did not become a king rat.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:54:50 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  9. fun, about Resident Evil: The suicide jumper scene: Brian runs through a canyon of people leaping off tall buildings and exploding near him; Chris calls it operatic but wishes it was not in the trailer.
    “So I thought it was just completely operatic and amazing.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:57:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  10. fun, about Resident Evil: A voice-note confession by the elevator is undercut by an intercom voice saying come up, take the stairs; he takes the elevator anyway, which becomes the acid-barf, snowball-zombie set piece.
    “Takes 4 flights of stairs.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:58:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  11. fun, about Resident Evil: The maternity ward with a glowing bubble that Sean compared to a rising sourdough loaf, and which bursts into a log flume of blood.
    “which you compared to, a rising sourdough loaf.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:01:53 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  12. fun, about Resident Evil: Called one of the greatest get-in-get-out IP jobs in movie history; Cregger wants out of Raccoon City.
    “It's one of the greatest get in and get out IP jobs in the history of movies.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:08:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  13. fun, about Resident Evil: The ending has no happy ending: Abrams becomes a tentacled monster waving as a National Guard helicopter closes in, then a cut to black.
    “this guy waving his tentacles in the air screaming as the National Guard helicopter is bearing down on him.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:08:36 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  14. fun, about Resident Evil: Box office tracking is $80 million worldwide for the opening weekend, huge for horror; Chris thinks $300 million domestic is possible.
    “can this movie like realistically make $300000000 in America, I think it can.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:10:49 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  15. fun, about Resident Evil: After Weapons, Cregger could have tortured himself to top it; instead he made a movie about blowing up a baby.
    “what if I blew up a baby?”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:17:54 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

As said on the shows, not checked against the real credits.