Chandler Riggs Debuts ‘Biohazard,’ a 20‑Minute Resident Evil 7 Fan Film

Chandler Riggs, best known for playing Carl Grimes in The Walking Dead, has created his own Resident Evil fan film titled Biohazard.

Biohazard is a 20‑minute short that adapts key moments from the 2017 game Resident Evil 7. The logline describes Ethan Winters, searching for his missing wife, becoming trapped by the Baker family—a deadly, unstoppable clan driven to violence by a mysterious infection. The project was born as a passion initiative to bring the isolated, intense, and gripping narrative of Resident Evil 7 into live‑action.

As writer, director, and lead actor, Riggs portrays Winters, while his former The Walking Dead colleague Jason Douglas plays Jack, the Baker patriarch. Mary Rachel Quinn, Eugenie Bondurant, Johnathan O’Neil, and Sam Coyles also star, and horror legend and The Walking Dead producer Greg Nicotero supplied SFX equipment for the production.

“One of the big reasons I even made this is, you know, I was just dying to see a good, true‑to‑the‑game live‑action adaptation of Resident Evil,” Riggs said in an interview with IGN. “I love being on set and collaborating with cool people, and that’s all it is at the end of the day. If I can’t be on set doing more films or TV shows, then I’ll just make it myself.” He added that he would love to work with Zach Cregger on a future Resident Evil project, saying, “If [Cregger] wants to continue in the universe, I’m all for it. Listen, my phone is open. Hit my line!”

Biohazard premieres tomorrow (Wednesday, October 14).

Released last month, Cregger’s Resident Evil adaptation has become the highest‑rated video‑game movie of all time despite backlash from some gaming fans about him telling an original story within the zombie universe.

“My only hope is that they’ll see the movie regardless of their skepticism [and] they will recognise all of the love for the games that are in this movie,” said Cregger. “This is not me just telling a story and slapping Resident Evil on it so I can get a budget. This is me telling a Resident Evil story.”

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