Padlocks Fill a Resident Evil Poster Built on After Hours
Melbourne letterer Matthew Wong recasts Zach Cregger's game adaptation as a Scorsese-style one-bad-night movie.
Melbourne letterer, designer and illustrator Matthew Wong has made an alternative poster for Zach Cregger's Resident Evil, modeled on the poster for Martin Scorsese's After Hours (1985). In the new piece, Wong writes that the film belongs to the "guy has a bad night" canon, the same lineage as Scorsese's comedy about a word processor stranded overnight in SoHo.
Cregger's adaptation, made at Sony's Screen Gems, opened in September. It follows the director's horror films Barbarian and Weapons, which is the run Wong salutes in calling Cregger "three for three." The poster's argument is about genre: it files the film with New Hollywood night-odyssey movies rather than with earlier Resident Evil adaptations.
Wong's commercial lettering and illustration work is collected on the artist's site.
For more reading see Save-point typewriters turn up in the Resident Evil film and Scoring Fear: Ryan Holladay and Jason Graves on the Sound of Dread, a conversation with one of the film's composers.
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