Resident Evil (1996) / England

I must firstly thank SurvivHor.com for this video.

This is a PAL trailer released by Virgin Interactive back in 1996, and is one of the funniest videos around, partly through it's music and partly through it's visuals.

While the trailer itself was created before the censorship changes to the English language version, and shows scenes like Chris smoking, the later gory scenes are covered by a large "CENSORED" banner.

This was shown around on PlayStation demo discs that came with the official UK PS magazine, this specific video was on a horror special issue that came out years after the game did, so there is no idea if the video appeared like this back in the mid 90's.

>> You can watch the video here

Biohazard 2 (1997/1998) / Japan

George A. Romero's Biohazard 2 Commercials filmed back in September of 1997. They kinda had a notority of their own, even if you hadn't seen them, just because... well it's a combination of Resident Evil and Night of the Living Dead, and it gives and idea of what direction the Resident Evil movie might have gone if Romero stayed on board. The two commercials have been here on REFANB for a while, but we've added a new version of Romero's main commercial.

It's interesting to note that the main commercial would have actually been shown in the United States if it hadn't been for "Actor X" who played Leon in the commercial.

"Actor X" is actually Brad Renfro (The Client, Apt Pupil). Ironically it was his "reputation" at stake for not appearing in this sort of thing overseas according to his agent - publications outside of Japan weren't even allowed to use his name. Renfro has since become known for his string of arrests for drugs, drunk driving, and other crimes.

For those who are interested, and I know you all are, Claire is played by Adrienne Frantz (The Bold and the Beautiful).

>> You can watch the 1st video here
>> You can watch the 2nd video here