In Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil, which is 90 minutes long, there’s a point where the main character, Bryan (Austin Abrams), is walking down the street. Zombies then start jumping off buildings down toward him. It’s basically raining zombies. And you might be thinking, how did they do that? Well, he actually made it rain zombies.
During Collider’s “Directors on Directing” panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2026, Cregger talked about the hardest scene he’s done in his career. And he focused on this one from the upcoming Resident Evil. “[Austin is] running and they’re just detonating all around him, and it’s this really long gauntlet of leaping over cars and bodies exploding,” Cregger said. “And I didn’t want to do it with VFX. I’m not afraid to use them, but I wanted to do as many practical detonations as possible, because that was gonna make it look tangible and real.” “So what we did is we had to set up all these frames and string all these 150-pound human sacks that were loaded with liquid blood and dress the street with snow and get the timing right,” he continued. “All these things had to happen together. Austin had to run at a consistent speed. We had to have a camera truck follow him really close. If he’d tripped, they would have run him over and killed him. And we had to time the dropping of these bodies, which are, like, six stories up—that is a long drop—and these things are 150 pounds, and they’re landing next to him, and exploding.”
