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

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. This has led some people online to assume that the creature in the film was actually a practical effect, with a bit of CGI on top. But as Smith explains, that is an incorrect assumption.