The Ending of ‘Resident Evil’ Changed One Crucial, Diabolical Detail
Great endings become great through careful calibration. The right timing, the right music, the right editing. All of it has to be perfectly in sync and considered for things to work as intended.
- ▪Great endings become great through careful calibration.
- ▪The right timing, the right music, the right editing.
- ▪All of it has to be perfectly in sync and considered for things to work as intended.
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| Original publisher | Gizmodo |
| Canonical URL | https://gizmodo.com/the-ending-of-resident-evil-changed-one-crucial-diabolical-detail-2000815525 |
| Publication time | Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:00:25 +0000 |
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Great endings become great through careful calibration. The right timing, the right music, the right editing. All of it has to be perfectly in sync and considered for things to work as intended. And, with Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil, the director revealed that changing one small but crucial detail took an ending that worked to an ending that really, really worked. Spoilers follow. At the end of Resident Evil, the main character, Bryan (Austin Abrams), gets the substance crucial to saving the world to the lab where it can be used. Unfortunately for Bryan, he was also bitten by an infected person a few hours earlier, and he becomes as concerned about getting the cure himself as he is for everyone else.
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