[COLUMN] Every Resident Evil Fan Should Watch RESURRECTION: A Biohazard Story | by Marty Sliva

\If it wasn’t for that pesky Resident Evil Requiem, RESURRECTION: A Biohazard Story would be my favorite Resident Evil thing of 2026. The newly released fan film is built around a pretty remarkable hook – what if the actors from the opening FMV of the original Resident Evil game reunited for a sequel story where they reprised their roles? And let me tell you, this movie is everything you’re currently thinking it might be, including a phenomenally fun watch among fellow Resi fans.

The fan project, directed by Andrew Saullo and written by Adi Attavane, is able to skirt around copyright laws by staying clear from using too many proper nouns, even sticking with just first names for characters like Chris, Barry, Albert, and Rebecca. It’s set 25 years or so after the events at the Spencer Mansion in the original game. And while it mostly follows the characters and motivations established in Resi 1, it does pull some surprising elements from throughout the series, including some unexpected nods to Resi 5 of all places. 

The action this time around is set mostly in a rural Mexican village, where a new snake-based bioterror threat has emerged. And it’s up to the surviving members of S.T.A.R.S. to piece together the mystery, reminisce about the past, and occasionally kill some zombies.

After a bit of a shaggy opening that does some of the expository heavy lifting, the pace of the movie tightens as it moves from scene to scene, gathering up our main characters and immediately thrusting them in harm’s way. I won’t spoil some of the bigger and more surprising story beats, but seeing Chris and Wesker go at it for one more round, or hearing the jump scare that is Barry’s extremely Australian accent brought a massive and dumb grin to my face.

And that’s the sweet spot that Resurrection does such a great job of maintaining its speed in. The movie is obviously low budget, and it’s clear that many of these actors did not keep up with the trade following the original game three decades ago. But there’s a sincerity at the heart of every performance that I love throughout the movie. This doesn’t feel like some kind of soulless cash grab, but rather a genuine act of love and passion.

It feels like Resurrection was released at the perfect time, with last week being the 30th anniversary of the original game’s release in Japan on the PlayStation. And the series as a whole has been in a very reflective mood as of late, with Requiem acting as a kind of victory lap through the franchise’s history, while all reports point at the next few projects in the series being remakes of Code Veronica and Zero, two games which I believe could benefit greatly from Capcom’s modern revisit treatment.

I think it’s cool that an adaptation like this can exist alongside a blockbuster like The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, which will undoubtedly make an absolute truckload of money once it releases later this week. Resurrection also stands tall among its survival horror adaptation brethren, as I had a genuinely much better time watching this than I did this year’s Return to Silent Hill.

You can watch the 75 minute film over on the Residence of Evil YouTube channel.