The runtime for Zach Cregger’s upcoming Resident Evil movie runtime has been revealed, with the horror reboot set to run for 95 minutes.
The film is scheduled to arrive in cinemas on September 18, 2026. At 1 hour and 35 minutes, it will be a relatively lean horror feature, continuing Cregger’s preference for tightly paced storytelling.
Rather than adapting one of Capcom’s games directly, the reboot tells a new story set alongside the events of the Raccoon City outbreak from Resident Evil 2. The film follows Bryan, a medical courier played by Austin Abrams, as he fights to survive the city’s rapid descent into chaos.
The Resident Evil movie runtime is shorter than Cregger’s 2022 horror hit Barbarian, which ran for 102 minutes. It is also considerably shorter than Weapons, the director’s upcoming ensemble horror film, which has a runtime of 128 minutes.
Co-written by Cregger and Shay Hatten, the Resident Evil reboot is designed to capture the atmosphere and pacing of Capcom’s survival horror series while telling an original story set during one of the franchise’s most iconic events.
