Chandler Riggs has turned Resident Evil: Biohazard into a tight, 20-minute fan film that condenses RE7 into one fast-moving stretch of dread. He directed it, wrote it and stars in it as Ethan Winters, giving the project the feel of a complete mini-movie rather than a simple tribute.
That is why the film is drawing attention now. It lands as a fresh adaptation of a game that brought back the Resident Evil franchise, and it does so with enough confidence that Chandler Riggs can sum up the whole approach in one line: who needs a feature film when you can tell this story in twenty minutes? The format may be short, but the reach is broader than a game-only audience.
The opening goes straight to the dinner sequence that fans of RE7 will recognize, with Ethan Winters forced to eat a disgusting meal with the infected family before Jack cuts off his foot in a confrontation. From there, the film keeps moving through the same grim beats: a strange potion re-attaches the foot, Ethan meets a deputy in the garage, and the deputy kills Jack before Ethan takes the gun. Ethan later meets Zoe by phone in the laundry room, and she tells him she knows what happened to Mia.
That close tracking of the game is what makes the short film work, but it also exposes its limit. Resident Evil: Biohazard is praised as a strong adaptation because it stays so close to the source material, yet it is only twenty minutes long, which means it can only sketch the scale of RE7 before it is over. By the end, Ethan accepts Zoe’s deal, and the story stops just as the larger version of the film starts to feel possible.
So the real question is not whether Riggs made a convincing adaptation. He did. The question is whether this short film is meant to stand alone or serve as proof of what he could do with more room, because the ending leaves viewers wanting the one thing the project does not yet promise: a feature-length Resident Evil: Biohazard.
