Resident Evil -elokuvien sarja osoittautui hyvinkin suosituksi, vaikka julkisesti kaikki tuntuivat sitä inhoavan. Nyt sitten elokuvat aloitetaan alusta rainalla Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, joka ottaa tarinansa kahdesta ensimmäisestä pelistä.
Ohjaaja Johannes Roberts on paljastanut IGN:lle innoittuneensa John Carpenterista.
"[The remake of the second game] was such a wonderful cinematic experience with the tone, the constant dark, rain, the aspect of the game and I just took that and went yeah, that's the world I want to work in. We very much took the tone of the remake of the second game and made that our template for this movie."
Roberts mainitsee erityisesti elokuvat Hyökkäys poliisiasemalle 13 (Assault on Precint 13) ja Usva (The Fog).
"I'm a huge John Carpenter fan and I really took to that. The way he tells these claustrophobic siege movies and I took movies like Assault on Precinct 13 and The Fog and these disparate group of characters coming together under siege, and I took that as my filmic inspiration.
We have two very separate locations but we split people off into their worlds. One is more of a siege movie style with the police station, and then you have the mansion which is creepy as fuck."
Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City pitäisi saapua ensi-iltaan 3. syyskuuta