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Total Film
Entertainment
Lauren Milici

Resident Evil director Zach Cregger says a falling "zombie" nearly killed their lead actor, and that the moment is in the movie: "So it's f***ing worth it"

Austin Abrams as Bryan in Resident Evil.

Zach Cregger says star Austin Abrams almost died during the making of Resident Evil... and that the moment was captured on camera.

"So there’s a scene in this movie…it’s in the trailer," Cregger told Dread Central. "He’s [Austin] running down the street, and there’s zombies on the roof of the buildings on either side, and they’re all leaping at him. And so we had to design this thing where he’s just running with bodies falling and detonating all around him. I knew I didn’t want to do it with VFX. So I was like, how do we do this?"

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