Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, the director wants to bring the franchise to his roots of terror

Resident Evil, understood in Japan under the name Biohazard (バイオ ハザード, Biohazard), is a collection of journey computer game, activity and also reflection of Survival Horror type. The franchise business comes from Japanese Cap com. She made her launching on PlayStation in 1996. Many thanks to her success, several suites are made, on the majority of consoles. Resident Evil is an important collection in the computer game market, and Nintendo covers exclusivity contracts. The series is experiencing around the world success and also has actually elapsed more than 100 million duplicates in 2020.

The RESIDENT EVIL The films franchise has seemed more an extravagance of bloody science fiction than a series of chilling horror movies and suspense as the games on which it was based. It is not that science fiction and terror can not be superimposed, because they do it more often than many would want to admit, but most Resident Evil films have opted to get away from the scares and focus more on action. The next RESIDENT EVIL: Welcome to Raccoon City, which comes to theaters this week, hopes to counteract that trend. Director Johannes Roberts wants to return to the horrible roots of video games.

While he talks with Seminal of entertainment -to-the -went Raccoon City at the release, Roberts spoke about him from capturing the chills and the emotion of the iconic games.

«I am a type of terror. I am a kind of Stephen King. I am a type of John Carpenter. All those things are integrated into the structure of this film, Roberts explained. I was like, Lets make a horror movie again.»

There are different types of terror in all video games, of course, and the last couple of tickets feels very different from the first games. For Roberts, RESIDENT EVIL 2 was the one who helped him keep the tone, showing him exactly what kind of movie he wanted to do with Guided Raccoon City.

I remember playing that second game and say, This is the movie. This is, he added the filmmaker. He left me completely hallucinated. Aesthetics, tone, mood. I thought, This is the cornerstone of what we are going to do.

There are lots of Resident Evil games out there, many of which are kept up to date with the history of Raccoon City. Nothing has been asked yet, but Roberts is certainly interested in giving life to more movies in the future.

«I think [ welcome to raccoon city ] establishes everything very well, a history of origin for each of our characters, he said. I think it would be very important for me that we not only use this as a trampoline and then go to our own crazy world. I think there are so many things in games that are so fascinating and exciting that I would really love to continue exploring that.

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Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City reaches cinemas on November 24.