Cregger's last film was a horror masterpiece

Zach Cregger's "Weapons" became a sleeper hit by blending majestic creepiness with emotional depth, weaving witchy stolen-child mythology into suspenseful human drama.

“One of the many splendid things about Zach Cregger's "Weapons" is that it was a horror film made with humanity.”

Then he chose to reboot Resident Evil

After "Weapons" became a sensation, Cregger announced his next project would be a reboot of Resident Evil, the most inhumane horror series of the last 25 years.

The reboot ditches video-game sludge

Cregger's Resident Evil abandons the franchise's typical grimness and source-material baggage, instead embracing a lighter, more absurdist approach to the material.

Austin Abrams fights viral monsters

Austin Abrams, known from "Weapons," plays a medical courier fending off viral creatures in a throwaway horror film that spirals into symphonic loopiness.

It's funky monster fun, not sludge

The film succeeds as a one-man-against-squish-zombies lark that never gets bogged down, trading the franchise's typical inhumanity for playful, energetic horror.