This article contains minor spoilers for Resident EvilZach Cregger’s Resident Evil is finally out and thrilling audiences everywhere with its unique blend of laughs and scares. The director’s spin on the popular Capcom video game series has also delighted many fans who weren’t sure how much of the true Resident Evil experience they would get, since Cregger chose not to include characters from the games in his reboot. Instead, the film follows a medical courier named Bryan, who is more like a random NPC than a Leon S. Kennedy type. cnx.cmd.push(function() {cnx({playerId: "106e33c0-3911-473c-b599-b1426db57530",}).render("0270c398a82f44f49c23c16122516796");});Ultimately, there was no need to worry; Cregger proved he knew ball. Beyond finding ammo, battling with padlocked doors, and being chased by mutant creatures, some have also been pleasantly surprised by how the movie captures the real tension of playing the Resident Evil games. But among the familiar situations and panic moments the movie puts poor Bryan through, there’s also a fun moment that should please fans of an entirely different video game. During a scene where Bryan investigates an overturned cop car, only to find the mutated woman inside briefly gone, he eventually has to figure out how to escape her on foot in the snow. This leads to a hilarious shot of him “looping” around the cop car as she relentlessly chases him, a scene that will be extremely familiar to Dead by Daylight players.In the popular multiplayer survival horror game, “looping” is a tactic where a Survivor repeatedly runs around a structure or obstacle to evade the Killer during a chase. It’s a go-to move for wasting the Killer’s time while avoiding being hit, often giving the Survivor’s teammates an added opportunity to “pop” a generator and increase their chances of escaping the map. Resident Evil has become one of Dead by Daylight’s most substantial crossover partnerships in the last five years. Developer Behaviour Interactive first collaborated with the franchise back in 2021, when Leon S. Kennedy and Jill Valentine were added as Survivors, Nemesis as a Killer, and the Raccoon City Police Department became a new map. Nemesis’s zombies and the ability for Survivors to interact with typewriters were also introduced, among other Resident Evil-themed elements and perks. The collab continued in 2022, adding Ada Wong and Rebecca Chambers as Survivors and Albert Wesker as a Killer, along with another version of the RPD map.While it’s currently unclear if Cregger actually meant to include the “looping” moment in his reboot movie as a direct reference to Dead by Daylight (feel free to confirm or deny in the comments, Zach!), it will surely have amused those who don’t just associate Resident Evil with the mainline game series and the movie adaptations, but with the franchise’s ongoing Dead by Daylight collaboration as well.Resident Evil may have kept survival horror fans fed in 2026, but Dead by Daylight is busy setting up its own movie adaptation over at Blumhouse, with Thordur Palsson (The Valhalla Murders) tapped as director. The post New Resident Evil Movie Features an Unexpected Easter Egg appeared first on Den of Geek.