HOLLYWOOD – The first trailer for director Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil reboot dropped this week, promising a “grounded horror” experience following a medical courier trapped in a city overrun by infected residents and a collapsing institution that refuses to acknowledge anything is wrong.
Indigenous health workers across remote Australia say they have been auditioning for parts in this film for forty years.
“We were genuinely confused when they said it was fiction,” a community-controlled health organisation manager said. “We’ve been delivering medications down dirt roads while a department twelve thousand kilometres away tells us we lack key performance indicators. That’s just our Tuesday.”
The film is set in Raccoon City – a fictional location where a corporation has spent decades pretending its experiments aren’t poisoning the locals – a setting Australians can immediately picture in roughly seventeen real places.
Cregger told industry press his version strips the franchise back to “what made it iconic in the first place: fear, survival and the unknown…” Indigenous Affairs staff who reviewed the trailer described those same elements as “the new policy framework.”
The protagonist played by Austin Abrams reportedly spends most of the film attempting to deliver something essential to people who urgently need it – while bureaucratic obstacles, locked gates and shadowy figures in suits prevent him from doing his actual job. Critics have called it the most realistic depiction of remote service delivery ever committed to film.
Capcom has separately confirmed Resident Evil Requiem will receive a new minigame after Japan’s Golden Week ends on 6 May – which sources note is one week longer than the average Closing the Gap consultation.
The Umbrella Corporation could not be reached for comment – having been busy launching its 2026-2030 Strategic Plan.
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