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APPROPRIATELY FOR THE original ‘survival horror’ Resident Evil is now the grizzled granddaddy of video-game movie franchises. After all, there have been eight cinematic instalments adapting the creepy Capcom series to date. Though it’s fair to say their lurid sci-fi action flavour neither went down well with critics nor completely satisfied fans of the games. Few would argue that, when it comes to the big screen, the series seriously needed some fresh blood. Enter Zach Cregger, the warped mind behind Barbarian and Weapons: two horrors so stunningly original that it makes his pivot to such a long-toothed property a surprising move. …
摘自《帝国》(Empire)2026年8月刊,Dan Jolin。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。