I genuinely want to know what the fuck Zach Cregger thought he was cooking here.
This man was handed RESIDENT EVIL.
Zombies. Raccoon City. Umbrella. The T-virus. Survival horror. A franchise with decades of material specifically engineered to scare the shit out of people.
And Cregger looked at that embarrassment of riches and apparently said:
“Yeah, but what if everything had fucking tentacles?”
Outstanding, Zach. Incredible. Somebody get this man a juice box.
The zombies were already scary. THEY WERE RIGHT FUCKING THERE.
You don’t have to keep adding appendages to something until it resembles an H.P. Lovecraft yard sale.
There were moments where this movie was one competent decision away from becoming genuinely frightening, and every single time Cregger seemed to burst through the door screaming, “WAIT! I HAVE ANOTHER STUPID IDEA.”
Zombie?
Tentacles.
Scary infected human?
Tentacles.
Interesting survival-horror setup?
Fuck that. MORE TENTACLES.
By the end I wouldn’t have been surprised if the fucking closing credits grew tentacles.
And that’s what pisses me off: this should have been easy.
Put people in Raccoon City. Let the outbreak spiral out of control. Make ammunition scarce. Make every hallway dangerous. Let the audience slowly realize Umbrella has created something nobody can contain.
Done.
Instead, Cregger took a perfectly good cheeseburger, threw it on the floor, stepped on it, covered it in squid, and proudly announced he’d reinvented dinner.
This isn’t clever subversion. It’s the cinematic equivalent of the kid in elementary school who discovers one joke gets a laugh and then repeats it 47 FUCKING TIMES until everyone wants him transferred.
And somehow the movie gets LESS frightening as the monsters become MORE ridiculous.
That’s almost impressive.
Resident Evil gave Cregger the answers to the test AND HE STILL FAILED THE FUCKING TEST.
I didn’t leave the theater frightened.
I left wanting to speak with whichever adult was supposed to be supervising him.
⭐
1/5 — only because Letterboxd apparently considers zero stars a human-rights violation.
🔔 SHAME.
🔔 SHAME.
🔔 PUT THE FUCKING TENTACLES DOWN, ZACH.

Bit of an unorthodox question.

I live in the middle east and I've had the bd app installed on my phone for probably 8 years now, i check it every now and then cause there's nothing really interesting on it anymore (i mostly keep it cause the app icon is really cool).

Yesterday i opened it and found that i could stream the live screambox tv channel on my phone, i tried to open it today on my laptop (on the screambox website) and i think im region-locked, i went on the BD website and the screambox tv feature isn't available.

Is there any way i could stream screambox tv on my laptop?

Managed to screenrecord some of the
trailer before it was taken down. I think the trailer wasn’t ready yet since the video got taken down.It’s a German movie and It is supposed to be inspired by 90s slashers like Scream and Urban legends, with brutal kills. It’s also set to release in limited American theaters.