When I was younger, I remember reading about how George A. Romero, the man who gave us some of the best zombie movies and pretty much changed the face of horror, was originally going to direct a Resident Evil adaptation years before the franchise gave moviegoers some of the worst video game adaptations ever made. The movie, like several other unrealized Romero projects from later in his career, never came to fruition, and hordes of fans were left wondering “What if?”
I recently watched George A. Romero’s Resident Evil, a deep-dive documentary about the late filmmaker’s life and career and how he came this close to taking the survival horror game off the console and onto movie screens around the world. After checking it out, I was left with some big questions about Romero, Resident Evil, and zombie movies of the past 25 years in general.
