Look, we might be living through the era of Fallout and The Last of Us proving that videogame adaptations are no longer guaranteed failures, but I'm a child of the era that made those successes feel so unlikely. Forgive me if I'm a little leery every time a franchise I really like gets announced for a movie version – I've been burned too many times.
I'm a huge fan of the Resident Evil games, and my ears have been pricked a few times in recent months by rumours that test screenings of the upcoming film by Zach Cregger have been going down brilliantly. Cregger's a rising star in Hollywood, not least because of last year's Weapons, which managed to score an acting Oscar, a vanishingly rare boast for a horror movie.
