Resident Evil Requiem gets official short film that might be the best adaptation so far, and its possible Nemesis cameo doesn't hurt: "FIVE STAAAAAAAAAAAARS"

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Resident Evil Requiem gets official short film that might be the best adaptation so far, and its possible Nemesis cameo doesn't hurt: "FIVE STAAAAAAAAAAAARS" News By Ashley Bardhan published 3 February 2026

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There's so much terror to witness in Capcom's short film teaser 'Evil Has Always Had A Name,' it's hard to decide what mutant to feel paranoid about first. I'm certain, though, that the three-minute video is one of Capcom's best Resident Evil movies so far.

I have more affection for the string of Resident Evil adaptations starring Milla Jovovich than some other people (including GamesRadar+ reviewers in 2004), but I never thought those action-heavy movies managed to sublimate Resident Evil's slightly gothic air. But since 'Evil Has Always Had A Name' is a short film – featuring the wonderfully, recklessly fragile Longlegs actress Maika Monroe – it has to quickly embrace dread.

So Monroe and her daughter wake in the middle of the night to the sounds of, as she says, "Oh my God, the screams" of her neighbors. The Racoon Police Department uselessly fires their guns, and you can watch the whole thing below:

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Then, you might notice him. You'll need to strain to see him through the smoke of artillery fire, but there's no mistaking Nemesis around the 1:35 mark. No one else's silhouette seems to nearly touch the sky.

I admit it could be me who's stretching, though. Many people seem to think the giant polyp Nemesis screams "STARS!" during his possible easter egg appearance, but I don't hear anything. In any case, I'm glad to see Capcom rebuilding Resident Evil's noxious world with 'Evil Has Always Had A Name.'

I thought, during my Resident Evil Requiem preview, the next Resident Evil might be one of Capcom's most frightening, and it deserves the S.T.A.R.S. treatment.

Or, as one Reddit commenter says, "FIVE STAAAAAAAAAAAARS."

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Resident Evil Requiem has "a different kind of replay value" than the rest of the series, director says: you can use Leon to steamroll the zombies you're too scared to deal with as Grace.

TOPICS Capcom CATEGORIES Xbox Series X PC Gaming Nintendo Switch 2 PS5 Platforms Xbox Nintendo PlayStation Ashley BardhanSenior Writer

Ashley is a Senior Writer at GamesRadar+. She's been a staff writer at Kotaku and Inverse, too, and she's written freelance pieces about horror and women in games for sites like Rolling Stone, Vulture, IGN, and Polygon. When she's not covering gaming news, she's usually working on expanding her doll collection while watching Saw movies one through 11.

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