India, Sept. 17 -- Resident Evil may just have found the best film in its franchise, and that too, at the hands of a director unwilling to return to the series. If that does not summarise the bittersweet tragedy the games were, then what does? Zach Cregger's new Resident Evil movie is scary, gory, innovative, and surprisingly funny in an homage to the games that is inspired by the bestselling franchise, but not curtailed by its storyline. And leading it is a delightful Austin Abrams doing much of the heavy lifting himself.

Bryan (Austin Abrams), a medical courier, finds himself delivering a medical package to Racoon City General Hospital in the middle of the night on snowed-off roads. As he encounters some weirdly infected, almost undead...