The Uncanny Valley
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The Uncanny Valley
RESIDENT EVIL (2026) TRAILER REACTION
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Listen to Chris and Charlie argue and speculate before finally watching the trailer for the new Resident Evil movie.
Yes. As I walk through the uncanny valley of death, we shall fear no evil. For I am not evil. Before we play it, we should How much do you actually know about Zack Krager's Resident Evil movie?
SPEAKER_03Nothing. I d I know the thing I know is that nothing I know is in it. Yeah, he said the star is the the junkie from Weapons.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, we we have that, and then he says, okay, it's Resident Evil, but it has nothing to do with Resident Evil. And it's like, well, why are you making that? But like what why why are you making a Resident Evil game? Well, game, movie. I feel like is this just a script he had? And Capcom was like, can you make us a movie? Take a look at this bad boy.
SPEAKER_03And maybe he was making a zombie script and he thought it would be able, he could fund it better if he pitched it to Capcom. I imagine he pitched it rather than someone came to him.
SPEAKER_02Well, I don't know.
SPEAKER_03Someone should have come to him if it's not related, right? He he wouldn't have been able to sell that. I don't know. I feel like interesting.
SPEAKER_01With a Resident Evil license, it's probably considered we get so many so frequently, regardless of quality, I feel like it's Capcom telling people to make them.
SPEAKER_03That makes sense. Well, it was I think Lionsgate for all the WS Anderson ones. And then, yeah, it might have been. I do not remember who it was for this most recent.
SPEAKER_01Whatever it was, Welcome did not have the same budget as one of the Anderson movies. Not at all. No, not at all. No. Um well this one's Sony. So they're definitely must just be bouncing about. I don't know if maybe it's just like a barking.
SPEAKER_03The last one was Sony also.
SPEAKER_01See, it would make sense because they're it's two Japanese companies. But like I'm wondering if they went, we want a Resident Evil movie, and they went to Zach Craig, can you do it? And he went, Oh, these motherfuckers don't speak English. I'm just gonna give them a script and say I did it.
SPEAKER_03I don't know about that. I don't like that theory.
SPEAKER_01Why not? I feel like you just could get away with it.
SPEAKER_03I think uh it's potentially maybe he sold it as if we do sequels, I can work them in. You know, like that's how the WS Anderson movies went, is the first one was a standalone. But do you think they're not even gonna mention the T virus? Do you think it's that degree of separation?
SPEAKER_01Uh well, I've I I think they're going to mention things, but I feel like it's irrelevant.
SPEAKER_03There's no Leon, there's no umbrella facility, they have to get something out of.
SPEAKER_01Maybe he wrote a zombie script and he was like, Oh, in the last third act, we go to an evil lab, and he went, Wait, wait, wait, I've done this before. Hold on. Capcom, look at this shit.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, literally every Resident Evil game ends in an evil lab.
SPEAKER_01I guarantee the higher ups must lose for shit anytime someone pitches. And then in the third act, we find a secret umbrella lab underground. Holy shit, there's many. We'd never thought of that one.
SPEAKER_03Before he walks in, they're all going, What are we gonna do? We're we're doomed. No one has any good ideas left.
SPEAKER_01We've got the first two acts down to a T, but what do we do?
SPEAKER_03There's nothing.
SPEAKER_01There's nothing. Like even they went, we're in a remote Spanish village. He went, How about we put an evil lab at the end of it? And they're like, oh my god. But it doesn't exist in the village, it's on a little mountain in the middle of nowhere. As if that makes it any more coherent.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, no, that makes so much more sense, honestly.
SPEAKER_01And then zombies can also use miniguns now.
SPEAKER_03Oh great. Right. I forgot that they're smart in Resident Evil now.
SPEAKER_01What if this is just like some bullshit? What if this is just a trailer for like a cold open? And then it's actually, and here's Leon Kennedy.
SPEAKER_03I I would be down with it, but I would rather have just a new movie from him that you know I I know what to expect from a little bit, but for the most part not. Because that's what's been great about Zach Krager's movies so far is that they just are completely off the wall, fucking nuts.
SPEAKER_01Aside from Barbarian and Weapons, what's he done? It's just those two, really in there, but the big two.
SPEAKER_03But it's like both of them and weapons he didn't write either. As far as I'm aware. He might have I think he doctored the script, but it was uh there was a bidding war over it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, there's no way he didn't have a hand in the scripts, considering both of them are like weird atmospheric dark horror movies that have humorous elements that have perspective shifts. Like I feel like that's that's too unless he's read the script for weapons and went, Oh, I can do that, I've done that before.
SPEAKER_03I think somewhere in between. I think A Lot of Weapons was the original. I don't know. I haven't looked into it too hard. I just know that Jordan Peele was also bidding on the script and got he fired all of his agents. Or all the all the people who were looking at scripts at the time because he was upset with them for not picking that one up.
SPEAKER_01But to be fair, I feel like Steve, you read Weapons as a script though. It wouldn't look like it should be a good movie. You would look at it and go, that's a book. You've given me a book.
SPEAKER_03And also so much of it is tonally is based in tonality, which you don't get entirely from the script. So much of what's great about weapons is what he's presenting versus how he's presenting it.
SPEAKER_01I'm trying. But I feel like even if you just read the script, you would get to the end, and aside from the Aunt Gladys scene, like the whole weird witch power stuff, you'd be like, this is anticlimatic, this won't work. Yeah, but it's it's just went too far, it's too silly.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I don't disagree. It must be so I don't think we should be spoiling weapons.
SPEAKER_01Oh, we didn't spoil weapons. I said the Aunt Gladys scene. What are you talking about? You said witch. Well, you can't tell that's a witch. She won an Oscar for being Aunt Gladys the Witch, and there's a movie about a witch being made called Aunt Gladys. That's a prequel.
SPEAKER_03Alright. Fine. I don't know. I didn't know it was about witchcraft when I watched it. I'll put it I'll put uh an alert in the description. I did, but I also don't. I'm not trying to figure movies out like this unless they're mysteries. I like them to surprise me.
SPEAKER_01But weapons is a mystery. That's like how's that's how it's formed? They give you clues.
SPEAKER_03It's not fucking Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy, is is what I mean. It's not like uh an intricate spy mystery that has like all these moving pieces that you're trying to figure out. I'm not uh the objective for me when I'm watching something like weapons isn't to figure out what's going on, it's to experience it, be a little scared, maybe laugh a little, and enjoy having that first experience with the movie where I don't know what's gonna happen.
SPEAKER_01See, for me when I watched it, though, I got to the scene where someone painted witch, and I went, oh, it's probably a witch win. And then and then that was uh a correct assumption to make.
SPEAKER_03Well, I assume at that point I started sus and but I didn't realize until in the first perspective, it's literally the first storyline.
SPEAKER_01Someone writes witch.
SPEAKER_03Well, maybe I didn't then. I don't I'm giving you a lot of fucking suppositions and half assumptions from a movie I saw a while ago for the first time. Yeah, I feel like you have to care that much about what we're talking about.
SPEAKER_01I do feel like I have to re-watch weapons because I saw it early, and my fucking my film bro brain was too focused on oh, that's smart how they did that. Oh, that's straight. I like this. This is a strange structure. I wonder how we're gonna like it wasn't focused on the film at all.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, that's what I was that's what I'm saying.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but then they went, which? And I went, oh, it's probably a witch then. I reckon a witch. I'll put money on the witch. And then there was a weird old woman, and I was like, I'm gonna go.
SPEAKER_02I'm happy for you. I'm very happy for you. Thank you. Thank you.
SPEAKER_01Do you think this one someone's gonna write T Virus on a car? And then I'm gonna go, I wish all of this. Someone's gonna write big fuck off evil rape lap on the wall, and I'm gonna go, I wonder where this is heading.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, probably. Uh, if it was that early, I didn't and weapons I must not have sussed it out until she was murdering the parents. Uh whatever fucking actual witchcraft happens first is what clued me into it.
SPEAKER_02I wasn't I wasn't enough.
SPEAKER_01Like the spell that makes the children Naruto run.
SPEAKER_02Or was it just her hand?
SPEAKER_01Well, you don't see her casting it, but I feel like unless Naruto uh fan base was scrapping the nation like ten years before it dropped.
SPEAKER_02I feel like you're being overly pedantic. What do you mean?
SPEAKER_03I'm just telling you facts about how I experienced the movie and you're arguing with me.
SPEAKER_01I'm not arguing whatsoever, I'm telling you my experience.
SPEAKER_03Okay.
SPEAKER_02So what's what's your point that you're making right now? Because they said which? Right. So you can see why that is that is illogical to me. That that that you you were dumbsided by that. What's the relevance that it's illogical to you?
SPEAKER_03If it's what happened and I'm telling you what happened.
SPEAKER_01So I I can piece this thing together. It's like the mysteries weapon all over again.
SPEAKER_03And I'm telling you I didn't.
SPEAKER_02You just turn into mentions written on your wall. What?
SPEAKER_01That's a that's uh it's a very British joke to make there.
SPEAKER_03I didn't even hear what you said.
SPEAKER_02Deafness is also written across his wall. Deafness? Deafness. Okay. I I don't get that. Yeah, you don't get you don't you don't get anything, do you? No. No. Should we should we watch this movie, trailer now?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I'm down. I have it up. Okay, Chris, remember the rundown from last time to make sure there's no ads, make sure you're on it and at the zero second mark. Are you at the zero second mark?
SPEAKER_03I'm at zero seconds, I have YouTube premium, I don't get ads.
SPEAKER_01Oh, Mr. Money Bags here. Doesn't steal things. You said this last time too. I did. I'm gonna keep saying it anytime you mention YouTube Premium. Do you use YouTube Music?
SPEAKER_02No.
SPEAKER_03I got Spotify through work.
SPEAKER_02You get Spotify through work?
SPEAKER_03Sort of. I still have to pay the taxes through it, but yeah.
SPEAKER_01I was gonna say I don't pay taxes, but I do pay taxes, it's just in the in the price. Yeah. Strange. Okay, alright, we're on zero seconds. Do you are we going on one or are we going on go?
SPEAKER_02Go. On go.
SPEAKER_01On go. Okay, oh fuck, there's a delay. Remember we did this last time.
SPEAKER_02How did how did we how did we figure out this this delay?
SPEAKER_03Um shouldn't the delay fix itself? I forget why it was a problem last time. Okay, well, shouldn't the delay just be fine if we're not watching the same stream?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, okay, well I mean if you f if you're on a half second delay, and then that would mean by the time you say it back, you'd have to like double it because it's back and forth each way. So it'd be a one second delay, but then you take away the half second because it's reciprocating conversation. So we would only ever really be a half second out, hypothetically.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, that makes sense. So we're just gonna say fuck it.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, that was the yeah, that sounds good.
SPEAKER_01Okay, okay, alright, who's who's who's counting down?
SPEAKER_03We'll go in three, two, one, go.
SPEAKER_02Starting off, we've got fucking snow. You know how hard it is to get snow on a horror movie for some reason? This is very barbaric.
SPEAKER_03It is a little bit, yeah, the house in the middle of nowhere.
SPEAKER_01I'm hoping it's cold through the full thing. I like that we have to make sure you know it's Zach Zach Gregor. Oh, he's sick. We have a little sickness. Maybe you're right, maybe it was T virus. But like if it's T virus, it would have to be Raccoon City. But it can't be Raccoon City because it's snowing.
SPEAKER_03Never snows in Raccoon City.
SPEAKER_02It doesn't snow during the outbreak. That's true. Unless was it ever snow in the mountains? That would make sense. Oh, that probably means we're getting some doggies. Is that an underground lab, Chris? Chris is even a turnover to an underground lab. Uh oh.
SPEAKER_03That looks cool. Oh, those legs, Chris. That's a lab. Oh, look at this lab.
SPEAKER_01That's a hundred it's a hundred percent a fucking lab, Chris. Is that oh, we're getting some good body horror on this.
SPEAKER_02This seems cool, isn't it? Oh, he's pulling a left-right game. What a title drop. Holy fuck. Oh my god. That's exciting.
SPEAKER_01That's not a Resident Evil movie.
SPEAKER_03No, no, no. That's just uh weird fucking zombie movie. I'm excited for that.
SPEAKER_01But is it even a zombie movie? Because those legs look like unless we unless we're getting like like an amalgamation person, like a big a big zombie centipede.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I don't know. That one it that one looked like several people to me. Maybe it's like a bunch of people melded together.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that's what I mean. Like imagine like a like a like imagine a human centipede, but they're all at like a 45 degree angle.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, like it's that's what I was saying.
SPEAKER_01And then the ribs are sewn together in a line down.
SPEAKER_02Oh horrible.
SPEAKER_01Oh, but who would you eat? Unless there's a single digestive tract that runs right through the center.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, you just do your best.
SPEAKER_01I feel like that's a f but why what Chris, who the fuck's that naked bar in her conin?
SPEAKER_03I don't know. That just looks like a bloater from Left 4 Dead to me. That just looks like a traditional fat zombie that's gonna blow up.
SPEAKER_01But he's so smooth, he's like a big marble. Yeah. I'm running it back, I'm pausing at him. Because like he doesn't, he cause he's he's a big boy, I'll give you that, but he doesn't look like he's a swollen big boy. Which I think would see see if it was like a big, a big pussy man.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01That's not okay. I'm looking at what what could we consider Resident Evil? He has an assault rifle. Okay, he has a gun, and there is a lab.
SPEAKER_03There's a thing that drags a body away from him. That's Resident Evil.
SPEAKER_01Do you think he's going to get injured at one point and smoke a joint? As a green herb reference.
SPEAKER_03That'd be rad. Yeah, I hope so.
SPEAKER_01I'm looking at him, this man's just he's he looks like fucking Winnie the Pooh. I don't get this isn't a blower, surely. I feel like that's so much scarier though, see if you go into a tunnel and you expect a zombie, and there's just a giant perfectly smooth naked fat man with his legs spread out.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01That's like that's mental break levels of psychological horror.
SPEAKER_02I wonder if it'll be one of them got too fat and can't move.
SPEAKER_03I don't know.
SPEAKER_01He just sucked up so much T Just. Fucking sucking up all the syringes. See, but like why but okay, but he's in the mountain, but then you see you've not read the left-right game, have you?
SPEAKER_03I s started listening to like uh an audiobook or uh an audio play of it, but no, I haven't finished it.
SPEAKER_01There's uh it's towards the end, there's something very similar to that building scene.
SPEAKER_03Oh, interesting.
SPEAKER_01It's like, but how because that can't be Raccoon City. Again, it's snowing, it's not bombing.
SPEAKER_03Is it worth finishing the left right game?
SPEAKER_01People okay, people say the left-right game's ending ruins it, and I think that's the best way to end it. I think it's a very, very, very cool ending. I think people are just very unimaginative. Interesting. But it's not just written by Zack Krager, but it's filmed for IMAX. How many horror films do you get that are filmed for IMAX? Not many at all.
SPEAKER_03That's interesting. It might be outskirts. Yeah, it feels like they're hiding something from the third act for sure.
SPEAKER_01Well, no, you don't think it's gonna be it's not gonna be a big lab at the end.
SPEAKER_02Chris don't say that.
SPEAKER_03No, I don't think they're not doing that. Maybe he'll go back to it, but to me it feels like the the lab is Well, I it might might just be the editing of it. It does feel like the lab is set before him running through the cityscape. Because the lab feels like it's in whatever this mountain range is, and then the cityscape feels like something he gets to later in the movie.
SPEAKER_02Especially since there's things blowing up around him.
SPEAKER_01It's so strange though, because why maybe he's trying to get back to the lab or maybe oh Joe Joe no, no, here was he finds a lab in this house, okay, and it has a map to another lab that is under line, and then he has to go ahead and the third act.
SPEAKER_03Two labs. I want, I want two labs.
SPEAKER_01This is how you stepped it up. He he had the CEOs of Capcom ripping my hair out on this one.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Let me tell you what you need. You need two labs.
SPEAKER_01He had a photo of a lab, and you're like, hmm, hmm. Took out his back pocket the same photo again. Oh my god.
SPEAKER_03What do you think? What do you think he's there for?
SPEAKER_01Um, yeah, why is he in the snowy mountains? He's white. Why is he in the middle of nowhere? And then go, oh fuck, I'm lost.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, true. But he can't be, it's not a barbarian situation because he's so far out in the middle of nowhere. And he's knocking it like someone will be there, so he's not renting the place.
SPEAKER_01Well, I'm I'm I was in the back, I was in him to him walking. What's he what's his strip? What's his drip? What's he got? He's got a snow hat, he's got a first, he's got a high viz jacket.
SPEAKER_03So he doesn't look like he's planning to walk in the snow. No though. He looks like he drove somewhere and was planning to just go from the car to the door.
SPEAKER_01Okay, but the high vis jacket, he's he says hello at the door. So he's expecting to be there. What's he saying? Hold on, I'll get the subtitles on so I can I can make sure I know for sure what he's saying. But I would guess maybe a workman, electrician.
SPEAKER_03Uh yeah, that makes the most sense. Let's see, what's he got at the very, very start? Is that like a medic bag? That's a medic bag.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's a first aid kit. Well he said, I saw your car on the road, I was wondering if you're so maybe But no, you wouldn't just go into someone's house.
SPEAKER_02Weird. Very strange.
SPEAKER_01Very, very strange.
SPEAKER_03I had a little bit of a problem on the road. I was wondering if I could use your phone. Okay.
SPEAKER_01I don't know, so my man he swerved so far on the left he accidentally went up a mountain. Yeah found a house. Oh, have you paused when he walks into the house for a huge blood splatter behind that door?
SPEAKER_03Oh really? Oh good.
SPEAKER_01Oh he's probably phoning for help if he gets attacked there. That might be our first zombie scene.
SPEAKER_02I could see that, yeah. Do you know these games haven't done yet?
SPEAKER_01We always get a zombie dog. Need a zombie cat.
SPEAKER_03That would be cool. I feel like people would get upset when the cat dies, though.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but the thing is like a dog is like big, you can like slam it into things. A cat a cat's a cat's so so agile. See trying to stop a cat from getting fuck you up.
SPEAKER_03It might not kill you, but it would really fuck you up, yeah.
SPEAKER_01And I gave we've got that shitting ver their claws that make all your your fucking veins itch when they get you. Oh great. I wish we've had a bad cat scratch before. You felt like that.
SPEAKER_03No, not a bad one, thankfully.
SPEAKER_01Ah my I I used to have a tad. But she she would like to play fight, but she didn't understand that humans can't play fight without getting injured. But I would just let her play fight with my arm. So I would always have like big, big pocket scars in my arm from her play fighting. Oh yikes. Good God. Set your arm alight. What she used to do is see when cats get in a fight we grip like really hard.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01She would blow it to the underside of my arm and I could pick her up and walk about with her attached. No. Dude, I hate that. She was a good cat. She would sit like a parrot. You had to really amp her up to get her into a playtime. But to be, I wouldn't, if she was a zombie, I think I'd cooked.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01My dog right now, part part beagle, part sausage dog, if he went viral, I'm no death. He's getting taken out in one hit. That's not. See if my cats went apeshit. I'm having a problem.
SPEAKER_03I can kick my dog through a window easy if he went crazy.
SPEAKER_01It means Wally West he'd catch up too quick. Well, if you're but how about your rabbit? You think you could fend off a zombie rabbit?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, they can't move. Well, they they can move fucking fast, but the thing is that it's in a living room right now. It's not in a field. If it were in a field, it could like come it could ninja slice you, come back and forth, uh, you know, get your Achilles tendons. But in a living room, I could just get a baseball bat.
SPEAKER_01I like I like how you've got it set out each way you would kill both of your pets.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, a different one for some reason.
SPEAKER_01Jeff, I would make an incredible why has no one done like a zombie pet movie, like a pet apocalypse?
SPEAKER_03That's a great question. I don't know.
SPEAKER_01Might it spread to every animal? Australians would be fucked man, zombie spiders. Oh shit. Oh, wait, no, no, no.
SPEAKER_03Didn't they do that? Isn't there a show called Zoo?
SPEAKER_01No, it is that not a porn magazine?
SPEAKER_03No, no, there's a TV show called TV show called Zoo about zombie animals taking over the world.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, did you get you stumbled across that whilst looking for zombie animals, correct?
SPEAKER_03No. Incidental. Probably just zombie stuff. Probably I think Ugray Scott is in it.
SPEAKER_01That means that means nothing. How is there so many fucking zombie TV shows that just no one watches?
SPEAKER_03I don't know. Have you ever seen the Big Brother one? That one's alright.
SPEAKER_01Is the Big Brother one the one where they like they keep them in like a little safe house and then they have to do runs?
SPEAKER_02Hmm.
SPEAKER_03No, I don't think so. The Big Brother one is just a like a mini-series of it's a British show, Big Brother, and then zombies start taking over the outside world, but the contestants in Big Brother don't know.
SPEAKER_01You know, there was a fuck I cannot remember the name of the show. I'll have to come back to you on it. But there was a there was a celebrity horror series in the UK where people, it was three celebrities. On each round of the three rounds, they had to leave one person. But the catch is if they get through each round of like psychologically traumatizing horror scenarios that they put them in, like just the scariest shit you could see a human being go through. If they did it and they got the money, they would then have to run a field with six Dobermans chasing them, and they would have to get to the end of the field and hop a fence.
SPEAKER_02What the hell? Okay.
SPEAKER_01And it's it is it is funny seeing these celebrities almost piss themselves crying and then turn into you saying bolt the second those dogs get let go.
SPEAKER_03Oh, that's fantastic.
SPEAKER_01But it's so much fun to see when they just like they just clearly have never ran in their entire life and then just collapse. Yeah, just get fucking bulled for like a minute.
SPEAKER_03Oh my god.
SPEAKER_01I'll have to come back to you on that show. But it was it was peak entertainment.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, please do. What the hell?
SPEAKER_01I like how this is this is what well I suppose to tie that back. Do you think we're getting zombie dogs? And I don't see that boy running quick enough to get away from a zombie Doberman.
SPEAKER_03No, that one scene I could see maybe being a zombie dog, the one where the body's being dragged. But besides that, no, I I don't think so. If we have one, it'll be in the first act.
SPEAKER_01The best part of all the Resident Evil movies is those fucking dogs.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01You can't make them not scary. A big dog chasing you is scary regardless if the makeup's good or not.
SPEAKER_03They kick it in the face, like they did in that first Resident Evil movie.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but that's that was Milo Jokovic's Matrix kick.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, that's true. Yeah, no. Wally Wally wouldn't even try to kill something if he were a zombie, I don't think.
SPEAKER_01The fuck tough thing is, see if Little Field here was a zombie. I could just keep him. It wouldn't affect I just wouldn't have to put my hand on his cage.
SPEAKER_03He would become uh Nick Frost in Shawn of the Dead.
SPEAKER_01He would, and because like you'd think, oh, to clean him, you would have to take him out. The way I take him out when I have to clean them is I put a little hamster carrying case and I leave treats going in like the fucking the box family guy cutaway, and every single time he falls for it, and every single time he's so angry.
SPEAKER_03Fucking PO, that's so funny.
SPEAKER_01Oh but I think this is probably where we call it quits on uh still we still have no name for us. The the the mini the the the tiny um the the the bite sized uh where a bit of