This understated opening immediately sets the tone for Resident Evil 7. But Resident Evil has always been inspired by horror cinema, even if recent entries in the series have been more Uwe Boll than Stanley Kubrick. If you get lost or go missing-or worse-out here, who would ever know? It’s a beautiful, evocative shot, and almost certainly an homage to the Torrance family’s yellow car snaking through the Colorado mountains at the beginning of The Shining. The setting sun casts a gloomy orange glow over the landscape, giving you a creeping sense of foreboding.
We follow his car from above, a tiny speck against a vast expanse of remote, isolated swampland. Ethan Winters drives deep into the Louisiana bayou to find his missing wife.
