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Published Nov 13, 2026, 7:00 PM EST
Rohan Naahar is a News Writer for Collider. From Francois Ozon to David Fincher, he'll watch anything once.
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A week after debuting on digital, the year's best-reviewed blockbuster is on its way out of theaters. The movie in question, Resident Evil, has broken box-office records in its two-month run, having emerged as the top-grossing installment of the long-running franchise. The film arrives only a few years after a failed reboot that grossed roughly one-tenth as much at the global box office. The Resident Evil franchise is best known for the six movies starring Milla Jovovich, who went out with a bang. The sixth and final installment of Jovovich's series grossed more than $310 million globally.
The new reboot was easily able to outgross Resident Evil: The Final Chapter's lifetime haul. In fact, it could still overtake a couple of other blockbusters, even though it's playing a fraction of the theaters that it opened in. As things stand, the new Resident Evil film will overtake Denis Villeneuve's first Dune film this weekend, having recently surpassed the lifetime haul of Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
The new film marks another achievement in the relatively short career of director Zach Cregger, who broke out only four years ago with the sleeper hit Barbarian. His follow-up feature, Weapons, grossed $270 million worldwide and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Both Barbarian and Weapons are "Certified Fresh" on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, but Resident Evil was able to post a higher score than either of them.
Collider Exclusive · 8 Questions · 2 Minutes What Is Your Biggest Horror Nightmare? Elm Street · Chucky · Scream · The Conjuring
Four horror franchises. Four completely different ways of scaring you. One waits until you fall asleep. One makes sure nobody believes you. One is already in your group of friends. And one is in the house with your family. Answer eight quick questions about how you actually watch horror, and find out which nightmare was built for you.
😴Elm Street(Freddy Krueger)
🧸Chucky(Child's Play)
📞Scream(Ghostface)
🕯️The Conjuring(The Warren Files)
FIND YOUR NIGHTMARE →
01
Which horror scene makes you cover your eyes? Four classic images. One of them is worse than the others for you.
ASomebody falling asleep when they really should not. BA toy that has moved, and nobody touched it. CA phone ringing in an empty house. DA child talking to somebody who is not there.
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02
You are home alone and you hear a noise. First thought? Everybody has one. It arrives before you have decided anything.
AI am exhausted and my mind is playing tricks on me. BSomething in this room is not where I left it. CSomebody is in here with me. DThis house has never felt entirely right.
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03
Which horror movie rule would you break first? Everybody thinks they would survive. Almost nobody actually does.
ANever fall asleep. BNever leave it out of your sight. CNever answer the phone. DNever go down to the basement.
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04
Something genuinely frightening happens. What do you do? Not in a film. In your actual living room, tonight.
AConvince myself I imagined the whole thing. BTell someone, and brace for them not believing me. CWork out which person I know could be behind it. DGet everybody in the house into one room.
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05
How do you actually watch a horror film? Be honest about this one. Nobody is checking.
AFine during. Wide awake at two in the morning. BShouting at the screen that nobody is listening. CCalling the twist out loud before it lands. DThrough my fingers, holding on to something.
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06
Somebody offers you serious money. Which do you still refuse? The amount does not matter. There is one on this list you are not doing.
AFall asleep in a room I have never been in before. BKeep an old doll on the shelf facing my bed. CAnswer every unknown number that calls after midnight. DSpend one night alone in a house with a history.
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07
Which feeling stays with you a week after the film? Good horror does not stop when the credits do.
ANot wanting to turn the bedroom light off. BNot trusting one particular object in my house. CLooking twice at people I have known for years. DFeeling like something came home with me.
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08
Something wakes you at 3am. What is the worst possibility? Eight questions in, this is the one that decides your nightmare.
AThat I am still asleep, and it knows it. BThat the thing nobody believed me about is here. CThat somebody with a key is downstairs. DThat something is in the doorway, watching us sleep.
REVEAL MY NIGHTMARE →
The Lights Just Went Out Your Nightmare Is…
Four franchises, four completely different ways of getting underneath your skin. This is the one built out of your particular fear, why it works so well on you, and what it would leave behind.
Elm Street
Your nightmare does not wait outside the door. It waits for you to close your eyes, which you are going to have to do eventually, because nobody has ever won that particular argument.
- Freddy is horror's cruellest idea: a threat that lives in the one place you cannot guard, cannot lock, and cannot avoid forever.
- You are the one who is fine during the film and wide awake at two in the morning. Your own head is where this does its damage.
- These films understood exhaustion as a horror engine. The kids on Elm Street do not lose because they are weak. They lose because they are tired.
- You can lock every door in the house. You still have to sleep.
Chucky
Your nightmare is not really the doll. It is the face of the person you tell, and the way they decide, very kindly, that you have imagined all of it.
- Chucky works precisely because he is absurd. That is the trap: the more accurately you describe him, the less anybody is going to believe you.
- You are the one shouting at the screen because the characters are not listening. You know that feeling from real life too.
- The franchise is at its best when the adults in the room are the real obstacle, and you have met those adults.
- By the time somebody finally believes you, you will have handled most of it on your own.
Scream
Your nightmare has your number, knows your name, and has almost certainly been inside your house before. The worst part is that you already know them.
- Scream is the only one of these where the killer takes the mask off and turns out to be somebody who was at the party.
- You are the person who calls the twist out loud before it lands. You watch people the same way you watch films.
- The franchise made the rules of horror part of the plot, which means the survivors are the ones paying attention. You would be paying attention.
- Everybody is a suspect, including the person who just offered to walk you home.
The Conjuring
Your nightmare is not really about you. It is about the people asleep down the hall, and the feeling that whatever is here is not interested in leaving.
- The Conjuring films are domestic horror. The house, the family, the perfectly ordinary room that quietly stops feeling ordinary.
- Your instinct is to get everybody into one room. Your fear is protective rather than personal, which is rarer than it sounds.
- This is the one franchise where belief is the weapon. The people who come through it are the ones who are not alone and refuse to be.
- Whatever is here did not come for you. It came for the household, and you are the one standing in the hallway.
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Here's How Much 'Resident Evil' Has Grossed at the Box Office
Starring Austin Abrams, the largely one-man show is now sitting at a "Certified Fresh" 96% score on the aggregator, where the consensus reads, "Packing unforgettable scares into a sleek runtime while Austin Abrams' crack comedic timing provides crucial levity, Zach Cregger's Resident Evil is a propulsive tribute to the pleasure and terror of playing a truly spooky video game." This makes the new Resident Evil the highest-rated video game adaptation of all time.
Produced on a reported budget of $75 million, Resident Evil has so far generated $410 million worldwide. The movie opened in more than 3,600 theaters in September. This weekend, the film is playing in fewer than 1,000 theaters for the first time. It's now available on the PVOD market, where it made its presence felt immediately.
According to FlixPatrol, Resident Evil is among the top five movies domestically on iTunes, Amazon, and Google Play, despite fresh competition from Verity and Heart of the Beast. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
Release Date September 18, 2026
Runtime 95 Minutes
