Resident Evil Movie Star Nearly Died During Filming After 150-Pound Blood Bag Almost Hit Him

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Zach Cregger, the director of the upcoming Resident Evil movie, appeared at San Diego Comic-Con this week, where he revealed that the movie’s star, Austin Abrams, nearly died filming a scene that ended up in the movie. The Resident Evil franchise has a history with this kind of thing, as a member of the production crew on Resident Evil: The Final Chapter was killed from injuries he sustained during an on-set accident.

At Comic-Con, Slash Film reported that Cregger said there is a scene in the movie where Abrams’ character, the medical courier Bryan, is running through a street, with zombies leaping from the tops of buildings at him. Cregger wanted to film this sequence practically instead of using CGI.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNd1gb19A-c

To film the scene, the production team created 150-pound “body-sized blood bags” that were dropped from cranes to create the effect. One of the blood bags came close to striking Abrams, and Cregger said, “It would’ve killed him.”

“If he had been one step to the right, he would’ve died,” he said.

This shot–teased in the new trailer above–made it into the final cut of Resident Evil, “so it’s f**king worth it,” Cregger said.

“That’s