With Resident Evil set to hit cinemas worldwide from Sept. 17, Sony has released one of the film’s most gruesome sequences in full—and viewers from Prague may recognize the location beneath all the blood, snow and falling bodies.
The newly released scene features Austin Abrams’ Bryan attempting to navigate a zombie-infested street as infected residents begin hurling themselves from surrounding rooftops, crashing onto parked vehicles and the pavement below. The sequence was filmed on Přístavní Street in Prague 7’s Holešovice district in November 2025, when The Prague Reporter documented the elaborate nighttime shoot with behind-the-scenes photos and video.
The clip is now available through Sony’s YouTube channels, though its graphic violence has earned it an age restriction. It provides the most extensive look yet at one of the Prague production’s biggest practical-effects sequences, previously glimpsed in trailers and even featured prominently on an official poster.
From Holešovice street to Raccoon City
For several nights last November, Resident Evil transformed Přístavní Street between Komunardů and Osadní into a snow-covered section of the fictional Raccoon City. The production filled the street with wrecked vehicles, American signage and storefronts, Colorado license plates, and copious amounts of artificial blood.
The Prague Reporter visited the location during the shoot, capturing photos and video of crews cleaning up the aftermath. Paper-based artificial snow remained scattered across the road, much of it stained red, while pieces of practical gore and other debris from the overnight filming could still be spotted around the set.
Those practical effects can now be seen in their intended context. In the finished sequence, Bryan initially encounters what appears to be a relatively quiet street before the situation rapidly deteriorates. Zombies begin plummeting from the surrounding buildings, smashing into cars and hitting the pavement as he attempts to make his way through the increasingly chaotic scene.
The location itself is extensively dressed as the fictional city but will still be recognizable to locals as Přístavní Street. During filming, production designers converted the Holešovice industrial corridor into an American streetscape with fictional businesses including Belle’s Collectibles, Jackson’s Bait & Tackle, Trash Panda Tacos and Raccoon City Savings.
The sequence has already played a significant role in Sony’s marketing campaign. Portions appeared in the film’s trailers, while a poster released earlier this year prominently featured the transformed Přístavní Street.
Prague provides the backdrop for Cregger’s survival horror
Přístavní Street was one of several Prague locations used to create Raccoon City during production on Resident Evil. Filming in the Czech capital also took place at Prague Congress Center and in Karlín, including beneath the Negrelli Viaduct, where additional zombie-driven action sequences were staged.
Directed by Barbarian and Weapons filmmaker Zach Cregger, the new film stars Abrams as Bryan, a medical courier headed to Raccoon City General Hospital who becomes trapped in a rapidly escalating outbreak. Rather than directly adapting one of Capcom’s games, Cregger has described the movie as an original story designed to reproduce the experience of playing them.
The director has said he imagines Bryan’s journey taking place alongside the events of Resident Evil 2, albeit in a contemporary setting. The film follows its protagonist from one location to another as his situation becomes progressively more dangerous, incorporating familiar elements from the games including zombies, limited ammunition, recognizable weapons and healing items.
Cregger co-wrote Resident Evil with Shay Hatten. Zach Cherry, Kali Reis, Paul Walter Hauser and Johnno Wilson also star, while cinematographer Dariusz Wolski shot the film. Stillking Films provided local production services during the Czech shoot.
The production also received substantial Czech financial support. The Czech Audiovisual Fund allocated CZK 191 million to the project, based on an estimated local spend of roughly CZK 764 million.
After months of trailers and promotional images offering glimpses of Prague’s transformation into Raccoon City, the newly released sequence provides the clearest opportunity yet to compare the finished movie with the elaborate practical production witnessed on the streets of Holešovice last year.
Resident Evil opens in Czech cinemas on Sept. 17.
