Chandler Riggs compresses Resident Evil 7 into 20 minutes with Resident Evil: Biohazard, a short film he directed, wrote and starred in as Ethan Winters. The result is a tight remake of key game beats, not a feature-length retelling.
Resident Evil: Biohazard
The film opens with Ethan Winters in the dinner sequence, where he is forced to eat a disgusting meal with the infected family before Jack cuts off his foot. A strange potion then re-attaches the foot, pushing the story back into the game’s most recognizable stretch without adding anything extraneous.
Riggs, known from The Walking Dead, uses the short runtime to hit the spine of RE7 rather than broaden the lore. Ethan meets a deputy who says people have been going missing in the area, and Jack kills the deputy in the garage. That kind of sequence-by-sequence compression is what makes the project read less like a cosplay exercise and more like a disciplined adaptation.
Jack, Zoe, and Mia
Zoe enters after Ethan leaves the garage, telling him that she knows what happened to Mia. The film ends with Ethan accepting Zoe’s deal, which gives the short a clean stop point instead of stretching for a sequel-sized payoff.
The source also says Resident Evil: Biohazard takes direct inspiration from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which helps explain the film’s grim household horror and the infected-family setup. Riggs’ own view of the project is unusually direct: “He completely understands the game, and I think he could easily bring this videogame to life.”
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Riggs also said, “People who don’t play the games would also love this story, because I think it’s the perfect Resident Evil story to introduce to non — videogamers.” That is the sharpest argument for the short film’s reach: it is built to work for people who know RE7 and for people who only need the basic chase and survival mechanics to follow it.
The disappointment is baked in, though. A 20-minute runtime lets Riggs recreate the dinner sequence, the garage death and the deal with Zoe, but it also means the film ends before it can develop the broader fallout around Ethan, Mia and the family. For viewers, that makes Resident Evil: Biohazard worth seeking out as a compact adaptation — and unlikely to satisfy anyone hoping for a full-length Resident Evil movie.
