{"id":86907,"date":"2026-07-31T10:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T14:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=86907"},"modified":"2026-07-31T10:37:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T14:37:51","slug":"resident-evil-movie-will-have-fked-up-imagery-director-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=86907","title":{"rendered":"Resident Evil Movie Will Have \u201cF**ked Up\u201d Imagery, Director Says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Resident Evil movie director Zach Cregger (Barbarian, Weapons) has teased that his upcoming video game movie will have &#8220;really wild&#8221; sequences with &#8220;f**ked up and weird&#8221; imagery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said this in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/movies\/news\/issue-preview-rings-of-power-season-3-resident-evil-i-want-your-sex\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/movies\/news\/issue-preview-rings-of-power-season-3-resident-evil-i-want-your-sex\/\">Empire<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/entertainment\/horror-movies\/zach-cregger-had-final-cut-and-total-freedom-on-resident-evil-theres-some-imagery-that-is-so-f-ed-up-and-weird\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/entertainment\/horror-movies\/zach-cregger-had-final-cut-and-total-freedom-on-resident-evil-theres-some-imagery-that-is-so-f-ed-up-and-weird\/\">via GamesRadar<\/a>), adding that he&#8217;s unsure if the &#8220;lighting-in-a-bottle&#8221; nature of the spooky <a href=\"https:\/\/villains.fandom.com\/wiki\/Aunt_Gladys\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/villains.fandom.com\/wiki\/Aunt_Gladys\">Aunt Gladys<\/a> character from Weapons will be repeatable in Resident Evil. But Cregger promised that the Resident Evil movie has &#8220;a couple of things&#8221; that are &#8220;really wild.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cregger has also talked about how the Resident Evil movie is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/resident-evil-movie-is-most-violent-thing-zach-cregger-has-ever-made-you-gotta-go-grotesque\/?_thumbnail_id=1835456\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/resident-evil-movie-is-most-violent-thing-zach-cregger-has-ever-made-you-gotta-go-grotesque\/?_thumbnail_id=1835456\">most violent thing he&#8217;s ever worked on<\/a>, saying it was important for him to be &#8220;grotesque&#8221; with it.<\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mNd1gb19A-c  &#8220;Total freedom&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also in the interview, Cregger discussed how he was given &#8220;total freedom&#8221; to do whatever he wanted with the Resident Evil movie. He added that he received &#8220;final-cut&#8221; privileges on the movie, meaning Cregger himself&#8211;not the studio&#8211;had the final say in the version of Resident Evil coming to theaters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I was not interfered with. I didn&#8217;t have anyone putting any sort of limitations on me,&#8221; he said, following on from reports that said Cregger was given <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/weapons-director-zach-cregger-was-given-carte-blanche-to-reinvent-resident-evil-for-the-big-screen\/1100-6538203\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/weapons-director-zach-cregger-was-given-carte-blanche-to-reinvent-resident-evil-for-the-big-screen\/1100-6538203\/\">carte blanche<\/a> to make the movie he wanted to. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Only a <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2010\/film\/features\/fade-out-on-final-cut-privileges-1118014187\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2010\/film\/features\/fade-out-on-final-cut-privileges-1118014187\/\">small<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resident Evil movie director Zach Cregger (Barbarian, Weapons) has teased that his upcoming video game movie will have &#8220;really wild&#8221; sequences with &#8220;f**ked up and weird&#8221; imagery. He said this in an interview with Empire (via GamesRadar), adding that he&#8217;s unsure if the &#8220;lighting-in-a-bottle&#8221; nature of the spooky Aunt Gladys character from Weapons will be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":86909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86907"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86907"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86910,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86907\/revisions\/86910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}