Austin Abrams

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q16156312: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to Resident Evil, which ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! credits them on.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Resident Evil (2002); Paper Towns (2015); Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019); Resident Evil (2026); Whalefall.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, 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 (1988): 1 line

  1. lineage (homage) · through Resident Evil (2026), which they acted in: 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 (1987): 1 line

  1. lineage (tonal influence) · through Resident Evil (2026), which they acted in: 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

  1. lineage (influence) · through Resident Evil (2026), which they acted in: 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 (1982): 1 line

  1. lineage (homage) · through Resident Evil (2026), which they acted in: 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 (2025): 1 line

  1. unmapped (respectability) · through Resident Evil (2026), which they acted in: 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)

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What the speakers said they did

Acting (5) everyone in acting

What was said about them, by kind

career (2)

  1. career (career): Austin Abrams → Resident Evil. Abrams is floated as this fall's final girl across Resident Evil and Whalefall.
    “Is is Austin Abrams This Falls Final Girl?”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:59:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  2. career (filmography): Austin Abrams → Paper Towns. Abrams has been in a bunch of teen movies, such as Paper Towns, and plays Cat's boyfriend in Euphoria.
    “he's been in a bunch of like teen teen movies like he was in paper towns and stuff like that.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:18:46 · Chris Ryan (0.80 sure it was them)

people (2)

  1. people (performance comp): Austin Abrams → Michael J. Fox. Abrams recalls Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future: spirited, snarky, sweet, outlandish situations, gumption.
    “the actor that Abrams reminded me of most is Michael J. Fox and Back to the Future.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:29:53 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. people (performance): Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark → Austin Abrams. Chris nominates Abrams as best supporting performance in a bad movie, doing a lot in a role that does not require it.
    “he's just like really doing a lot in a role that does not require it”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:18:54 · Chris Ryan (0.80 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (role): Austin Abrams → Stand by Me. In Scary Stories he is the kid pretending to be Kiefer Sutherland from Stand By Me.
    “He was the kid pretending to be Kiefer Sutherland from Standby Me.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:18:42 · Chris Ryan (0.80 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Austin Abrams: Reacts to killing like a player in a video game, not like a traumatized man; Chris compares it to playing Max Payne with caffeine and cigarettes.
    “I've had 4 coffees over the course of the day and now I've had 3 beers”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:25:21 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)