Zach Cregger's Sci-Fi Masterpiece Made One Brilliant Change to Its Monster: 'It Just Looks Creepier'

Kevin Smith would like to set the record straight. (Not that Kevin Smith, the Wētā Workshop visual effects veteran who served as VFX Supervisor on Zach Cregger 's Resident Evil .) In the weeks after the release of Resident Evil , a viral clip showed several acrobatic performers tied together at the waist and practicing the movements of the mutated, cartwheeling mass of limbs known as the "Pedestrian" in Cregger's adaptation of the horror video game franchise .