Resident Evil: The Final Chapter Movie Is Scariest Ever, Director Says

A new trailer for Resident Evil: The Final Chapter was released this week at New York Comic-Con, showing off some intense zombie-action and teasing out story elements. Director Paul W.S. Anderson said during a panel that he expects The Final Chapter to be the scarier than any other entry in the series or any film he's ever made. Now, he's spoken to Collider to share more details on the film's scare factor.

He told the site that his 1997 sci-fi/horror movie Event Horizon so far has been the scariest movie he's made, "and this movie is scarier than that," he said about The Final Chapter.

"It's deliberately a return to I think the first Resident Evil movie was probably the most intense and the scariest of the franchise because it was all in the hive so it had a kind of claustrophobic intensity to it, it very much like a haunted house movie like inspired by The Shining orThe Haunting you know it had that kind of feel that you were trapped in this space with bad things that were gonna happen to you," Anderson explained.

"This movie the last fifty percent of it is all in that same environment with that same intensity and that same scariness but even the stuff earlier in Washington D.C. there are some great… I mean there are some of the best scares that I've ever directed," he added.

Anderson recalled watching Event Horizon with an audience and seeing some people turn away and scream because they could not handle the scares. It was a movie that was so harrowing and intense that "people just couldn't bear to watch," and The Final Chapter has a similar spirit, he said.

Read the full Collider interview here.

The Final Chapter hits theaters on January 27, 2017. Milla Jovovich stars as Alice, alongside Ali Larter as Claire Redfield and Ruby Rose in the role of Abigail. Anderson made all of the previous Resident Evil movies with Jovovich, his wife, in the lead role.

The next Resident Evil video game, Resident Evil 7, is scheduled to come three days before The Final Chapter arrives in theaters, on January 24, 2017 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.