I guess we’re talking about runtimes now, which is kind of embarrassing, don’t you think? Yet here we are. With […]
I guess we’re talking about runtimes now, which is kind of embarrassing, don’t you think? Yet here we are. With everyone racing to report it, Zach Cregger‘s Resident Evil is reportedly clocking in at a lean 1 hour and 35 minutes.
We have ourselves a movie! What can we take away from this? I guess that it’s not bloated. Personally, I’ll take a tight 95-minute movie over a needlessly stretched two-and-a-half-hour one any day.
In an all-new story, Resident Evil follows Bryan (Austin Abrams), a medical courier who unwittingly finds himself in an action-packed, non-stop race for survival, as one fateful, horrifying night collapses into chaos around him.
This runtime lines up with Cregger’s statement about the film’s relentless pace: “It feels like one gigantic sequence,” he previously told Empire Magazine. “Things pop off about five minutes in and it basically stays like that until the end.”
He continued: “What I love about the games is that you move from set-piece to set-piece. Every location has a unique challenge. So again, I’m borrowing from the games directly in that rhythm, where you’re just running through a gauntlet.”
Look for Resident Evil in theaters on September 18, 2026, via Sony Pictures.
