Happy Hour - The Keeper's Diary (With Original Resident Evil Cast!)

So to celebrate the imminent release of The Keeper's Diary: A Resident Evil Fan Film, I'll be chatting with the director Andrew Saullo, JJ from the Residence of Evil channel, the original Chris Redfield actor Charlie Kraslavsky, and the voice of Albert Wesker himself Pablo Kuntz. Grab your Jill Sandwiches and join us for a little slice of Resident Evil history!
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Watch Albert Wesker voice actor Pablo Kuntz play through the Resident Evil series: / @lexonal

[@briancrooks5982]

In 1996, I had just joined the Army and got stationed at Fort Hood, TX….i was feeling down and a little home sick and called home and spoke with my younger brother. He was telling me that he’d gotten a PS1 and he and another of our friends were playing this game called Resident Evil, after hanging up, I walked into the barracks Dayton and some of the guys were playing RE, it blew me away….later (after my tax refund) I bought a PS1 and RE2, which had just came out. I think that RE1 and 2 really helped pave the way for the “Zombie apocalypse” boom

[@maceelliott3150]

Ah, a fellow survivor of both the mansion and The Great Place.

[@johnnyjohn-johnson7738]

Imagine if two years later, you and your Army unit were sent to contain a zombie outbreak in a large mid-western town....

[@warriorwebb8746]

Something similar with me. My older brother introduced me to it and the demo for metal gear solid. Those games always take me back to my younger years. Leaves a smile on my face of past memories with my brother and dad.

[@briancrooks5982]

@@warriorwebb8746 I played the demo for MG Solid while I was in Bosnia…my older brother the full game to me for my birthday….when I played MGS4 and you went back to Shadow Moses Island and they played the Gaelic version of “The best is yet to come” I had to pause and wipe away tears….so many great times came rushing back, plus the haunting melody of her voice….

[@warriorwebb8746]

@@briancrooks5982 haha love that mate. Was in Bosnia my with British parachute regiment. Few years after you though

[@jonbaxter2254]

I know Drinker has interviewed a bunch of awesome people, but this one must be really special for him. I can practically hear how giddy he is

[@MedalionDS9]

Congrats Drinker... this must be a highlight for you for sure!

[@23lnp]

The 90’s were the best for everything from gaming to music. That was the best and last decade of freedom

[@chance_ondriezek99]

Could it be that we’re finally seeing the creation of a good Resident Evil movie? What a time to be alive.

[@ItsBlueFusionYT]

Won't be long enough to even consider it a film! When they got a budget and more money for funding. The guy behind should've made it a RE 1 movie. Not just some Note! 😂😂 I could write a better script within a weekend! Basically take whatever rather game lines say. To film. 😂😂

[@jeffhall768]

You actually have an expectation of a good movie being made in 2024? Do you live under a rock?

[@-Perene]

@@jeffhall768 Sean Connery back when he was alive and retired in 2003, said it better than anyone: "I'm fed up with the idiots. The ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and the people who greenlight the movies. I don’t say they’re all idiots. I’m just saying there’s a lot of them that aren’t very good at it."

[@PersianGamer36]

Yea I didn’t think it was THAT amazing honestly I understand money reasons but I’m not gonna be super jaded because they don’t have enough money either. It was nothing special but cool to see I guess.

[@Scarfacekiller]

@@-Perenego home & shleep well tonight!

[@johnnyjohn-johnson7738]

I love the way Wesker in the original screamed "Stop it! Don't Open That Door!" and "No! Don't Come This Way! NOOO!" (when the Tyrant turned on him) because it showed that before he became a supervillain, he was still a human being who was as scared almost to death as the rest of the team despite being an arrogant and deadly psychopath.

[@tkxbetrayer2405]

Nice one Drinker. Way to pull on my nostalgia strings. I too got into Resident Evil way back in 96. Been a HUGE fan ever since. It's arguably my favorite gaming franchise of all time. Great panel of people you collected for this. Fantastic!

[@btm96]

Dude, Pablo actually resembles Wesker!!

[@ElAssoWipe-o]

He needs to come back and voice Wesker again.

[@The_Cranky_Painter]

This is awesome. I started with the remake of RE1 for the gamecube, been in love ever since. Really hope that the Drinker can get Jill to join in. I appreciate the desire for privacy, though I know she'd be welcomed with open arms!

[@angelsackson]

Drinker and JJ, fantastic!

[@51R_samsoknight]

This is an awesome clash of KZbin personalities! JJ from RoE, the OG RE cast all hosted by the Drinker himself!? Haha my brain short-circuited watching this stream lol. All big fans of everybody’s channel

[@KendrickEdits]

Imagine a film from The Silent Hill franchise with Guillermo Del Toro as director and a good group of good writers.

[@Sheppard2030]

The Drinker does it AGAIN!! Fantastic video, everyone! Let's do this again sometime. I've always wanted someone to make Resident Evil movies that followed the individual character arcs from the games' multiple play throughs. I would LOVE that.

[@jill-sandwichsince9698]

Great episode Drinker lad! Im already a follower of both ROE & Lexonal channel, have been for years. I can’t wait for the Keepers diary tonight. Feels like forever waiting for this gem to drop and now it’s finally here.

[@GingerZombie29]

It looks like once again fans created something much better than big movie studios.

[@charred5516]

It's because they actually care about what they are putting together

[@-Perene]

Pablo Kuntz (OG Wesker) is great, and he also loves swords like SHAD! His son's channel Lexonal is a must-see, for all RE gameplays! It's sad we never got a movie made by real fans, or the George Romero version, that was cooking back in the 1990's. And we may never know Jill's voice actress, or find Inezh (the FMV version from RE 1) again.

[@keefedmk]

pablo and charlie are absolute legends. pablo's son, lexonal ,streams with him and are an awesome duo playing RE games. Charlie is such a down to earth guy and it would be a blast to have a beer with. thank you all for your continued hard work. Keep being awesome!

[@WillFredward7167]

With Covid changing habits, theaters being super expensive, and streaming on huge TV’s making it easy to wait a few weeks… it was a particularly self-destructive era for so many studios to allow quality to drop and to deliberately antagonize the fans. It is an era when good PR and top-notch quality should have been seen as requirements for survival… and it mostly isn’t. But then we get labors of love on KZbin, and we remember that creative people who love what we love still exist. They just mostly don’t hold power in major studios

[@garyjenkins7249]

You are not alone…that eagle/wolf puzzle held me up quite a while

[@NEOREV_MUSIC]

The first Resident Evil was THE game for me. It was only out a month or so when I picked it up at the mall. It was the longbox version. That opening! Such a great game. My brother and I would play it. So many memories. RE2 is great, but it doesn't top RE1 for me. I remember seeing the uncut opening intro when my friend picked up the PC version. So awesome to see original Chris and the voice of Wesker. Thanks for this, Drinker.

[@23lnp]

I agree mate, resident evil 1 was the don of the resident evil series. At first i thought resident evil 2 was a disappointment, but all these years later it really does stand the test of time. The first one was where it all began though and i will never forget the first time i laid eyes on the game and the impression it left on me as a kid.

[@randyhavard6084]

Hell yeah, great to see projects like this

[@yume2280]

This one brought me great joy. Love these folks~

[@mosj9876]

This is so FOOKN awesome!! I was giddy and was glad to back this project. Just seeing ROE guys and the OG REcast on stream with the Drinker. This was complete Saturation😂. Great interview.

[@Oddragnar]

Global even

[@Raffinix666]

This is a crossover i never expected, two of my favorite YT channels coming together as a panel. AND FREAKING WESKER IS HERE TOO! Goodamn what a great video, so many memories about RE1 and those cheesy dialogues. Thank you for this panel drinker and cheers to ROE for their great content and awesome fan film.

[@thant0s]

What great guests, this was a blast to watch! And as far as fan projects go, Residence of Evil was a delight, always glad to see content do its best to faithfully represent the source material. "Barry" being quintessential Barry behind the scenes of RE1 and even more modern projects sounds hilarious, seems a great guy to work with.

[@s.lajoie9961]

I hadn't known the Keeper's Diary was out yet. Thank you for this great interview; I can't wait to watch it!

[@cliffordfernandez3524]

U won’t be disappointed

[@brokenbullets5276]

I made my best childhood friend playing this game over home phone. Those were the days before Multi-player, but we found a way.

[@MichaelWilliams-lk7bk]

You guys are legends. I can't wait to see it tomorrow.

[@WithGas]

Hell yeah, awesome to see all of you talk about RE! The first game is still my favorite, it was just something else back when I was a young teenager. Pablo and Charlie were part of literal magic, might've been cheesy but it was awesome and I loved their work on it and I've replayed it a dozen times. They are definitely part of my gaming life!

[@TheDingus1296]

Excellent video Drinker really appreciate the RE love, need more RE videos!

[@chainsawsubtlety9828]

"Stop it...Don't open that door!"

[@wubway]

I am a total wimp when it come to horror so I will never touch RE, but the passion on display makes me feel like I'm missing out.

[@gs4011]

Honestly same, the lore is super cool though. I'd recommend checking out lore and story recaps of the series.

[@indicahybrid974]

My Friend LTRE worked on this movie. Im nothing but proud of him, and the rest of the crew. My friendship started with him because of this franchise, so its awesome as hell to know he is living his dream doing it right with the TRUE FANS of this series!

[@chrisrybskiart]

I appreciate bringing back the OG drinker glasses 😅👌 Awesome show. Been playing these games since 1999

[@Sarx88]

We had to wait fans for a proper Resident Evil movie

[@AngryMinkey]

You mean Jill’s whole story won’t be stolen by a psychic shoehorned in made up character? Cant wait

[@raymond-thecrumpledlecturer]

Bravo Drinker. Must feel like a landmark for you.

[@jacobneumann5021]

Glad to have contributed 👍 👌

[@Hamzat22]

What a fantastic crew! Amazing!

[@lloydthesage1164]

Oh my God i thought Jill familiar but i did’t notice chris…thats so great bringing back the originals 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

[@soezsoez]

pats my Resident Evil Director's cut bought back when it just released!!1

[@Mentosdog]

I did not expect that collab. Awesome. I'm a massive RE fan (except the shitty Anderson's movie) Started when I randomly got my hands on Leon RE2 disc on PS with all text in German 😂 Still felt in love with the series. After getting the whole English version of RE2 and playing through it maaaaaaany times, I've got the OG RE Directors cut, great game. Loved the remake of RE as well

[@JeremyThomas-xu6gc]

I remember spending the night at my friend's house and he had rented RE1 and we stayed up all night playing it. Door opening was the freakiest thing. Lol

[@ACDGibson]

I think RE1 vs RE2 is much like Terminator vs Terminator 2. One is the classic and the other one is a banger 😁

[@m081113]

LITERALLY THE BEST ADAPTATION OF THE SOURCE MATERIAL!!!!! Correction: It's not adaptation. It's a movie that SHOULD BE INCLUDED IN THE GAME (GOG release of the original 3 games)!

[@bombthebass6803]

Loving resident evil VR at the moment. I just completed re4 vr on the meta quest. Thats inspired me to get the old ps4 vr out the replay re7. Now gone snd slapped down 500 notes to get the psvr2 just to replay re4 remake and re8 in vr. Awesome

[@J.Hermansson]

Regarding the first game that WOW'd me. I think for me it was Dungeon Master from 1987, that was, for me, the first game I really enjoyed. Of course after that there was so many, but some of my absolute fav's was UFO enemy unknown 1993, Resident evil 1996 and Fallout 1997.

[@milquetoaste7144]

Critical drinker and Resi Evil content is a fking dream

[@steelcurtain187]

Awesome discussion friends 😎

[@theterbear9915]

I heard they were doing this. This is cool. Me like the Drinker am a diehard Resident Evil fan.

[@hitmanmonaghan6633]

Excellent!

[@spardathedevil7956]

Im one of those who started with RE2, because we didn't had PS earlier. English isn't my native, so I didn't understand a thing, I was like 9-10, so me and my friend wrote things in notebook we just got english class and we would ask our english teacher after class to translate those lines for us.

[@aldunlop4622]

My love of games in the 90s was all the PC games with live action performance, that you don't seem to see anymore, despite the massive budgets. Command and Conquer Red Alert and Dune based on it, Starcraft, Tiberian Sun, Half-Life etc. For me, it became almost expected that there'd be live action. And they were all so hammy, totally over the top, chicks in black latex suits etc, it was great fun.

[@amaurost]

27:53 Drinkers laugh is damn near a spot on Kain laugh from Legacy of Kain

[@wafflebrothel7712]

I played the first game at the age of 6. At my cousins house. Then owned RE2. Got it For my 8th birthday. Rented RE1 remake countless times. Did play 3 and Code Veronica a lot to. But didn’t own 3 at all until…2015? Didn’t have much connection with that one. Played it a bit less. RE4 was the first bought myself. Then countless hours with my friends playing five and six(mercenaries). Then so happy with everything since.

[@banhammer3904]

I would hang out with my neighbor and watch him play Resident Evil after high school. He had the cool shit like the Addams Family pinball machine. Unfortunately, you needed to have a repairman on call for that one because it broke down a lot.

[@Gengh13]

Man from earth is an excellent movie, I second that recommendation. The writer also did some Star Trek and Twilight Zone episodes.

[@m081113]

Zero and CV X are being remade. About time...

[@5ilver42]

Filmed in Northern Michigan? I wish I knew about it, I would have totally volunteered to help!

[@tylergoodman3560]

This is great fan fiction. 🎉

[@BryanRoaming]

It's really weird to find my sword dealer on critical drinker

[@Akandofaul]

Oh dear this is activating my cringe trauma, I wrote a short story for school based off one of the RE diaries as a kid (might have been John's letter) - looking back on it gives me this severe impulse to facepalm.

[@E3Ops]

I rented RE1 from Hollywood video in high school for my PS1 lol

[@simonecausarano9945]

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME DRINKER???!!! ❤😍🤩😍❤💥💥💥🤘😎🍺💥💥💥

[@mariostako2022]

just patience more remakes are on the way!

[@augustoandresdeolmosjerez]

Please find Inezh, the fandom deserves closure.

[@OceanbornAngel]

If I was Capcom and an executive I would watch this fan film and determine if I'd want to associate with the people behind it for a future office RE project. I'd be wondering how much money could be made from a more expanded movie with more of a budget.

[@childofembers]

I have only been to the Residence of Evil channel a few times but it's awesome seeing JJ on the Drinker's stream. It's great to see they are fans of each other

[@m081113]

Charles is looking like Wesker, while "Wesker"(Pablo) has just eyeglasses...

[@liamsworld3260]

Good way to wake up with a nice Irish coffee, thanks brother

[@mkk-un9nz]

where is Jill sandwich????

[@JMUDoc]

That's JIBBLE sandwich!

[@lachlank.8270]

Itchy tasty

[@scholasticaltactical9058]

Star Trek conventions were the only common ones.

[@luket3452]

Well they at least got Jill the right race unlike the last movie

[@cliffordfernandez3524]

That movie was terrible The anti white racism in Hollywood n media is 1930s in Germany And they’re very proud of it

[@m081113]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/eJyzfXhjaqiFnK8 At 3:23/4:00, we have the "CAST" introduced. Actually, it's just the characters (without mentioning the names of the actors who portrayed those characters).

[@Rotor_nator]

Resident Evil is a franchise that could shine on for a long time, unless it starts to involve identity politics and gets woke. Also, I think Sienna Guillory was the best Jill Valentine screen adaptation character!

[@davidtames6081]

Resident Evil 1 had the best bad voice acting. Say what you want about it but it was very memorable. Nobody remembers the cutscenes from any of the other games as they had serious acting in them.

[@MustPlayReviews]

such a great video i just did a resident evil ranking video on my channel love these games old and new

[@ItsBlueFusionYT]

It's 12PM. WHERE THE .. THE FILM????

[@kennylong653]

It was released on the Residence of Evil channel

[@m081113]

Why not make a fan-made R.E. 1 episodic series? A.K.A. the first game as a show/series split into various episodes rather than just a full-length film.

[@John-y1n6t]

the first time I played a resident evil game is the original resident evil 4

[@zachariahjonahmaldonado5897]

The Resident Evil fandom is weird in that we don't generally have nerd rage over shit adaptations, of which there are plenty. I actually enjoy the adaptations and think of Resident Evil as a prism that can be infinitely adapted and I even encourage new takes on it.

[@JayRitzy]

Right on!

[@SupremeKingToshiro]

Has the sphere hunter talk about this because she is a big re fan?

[@ElAssoWipe-o]

*He

[@SupremeKingToshiro]

@@ElAssoWipe-o really didn't know?

[@iamlegend0000]

This was a great shirt film. Acting was decent and still better than Star Wars Acolyte. Especially with their 180 million budget or 8 episodes...

[@2tone209]

AY UP DRINKER

[@M4ruta]

Crazy how this fan project is the best RE movie adaptation we've gotten so far for a franchise that has existed for nearly three decades.

[@mkk-un9nz]

Drinker my friend Do you know there is multiple RE live action on the way? what's your reaction?😂

[@ACDGibson]

For me the RE2 was the first one I'm affraid, after playing it, RE1 felt too clunky. Almost as if it was a game from previous generation or something. It definietly had heavier atmosphere though and you can't beat that live action intro! So in some regards RE1 is more unique. Played it all the way through but only once. Whereas RE2 I've played countless times. I think for me it was a gameplay thing that made RE2 that much better.

[@cliffordfernandez3524]

It’s pathetic that Hollywood can’t do what those people did The keepers diary was awesome bc it was just made for the fans Not some completely different crap that they made up then threw resident evil on it Like a hat they’ve done to Star Wars

[@MustPlayReviews]

is the keeper the itchy tasty guy

[@jacobneumann5021]

Da

[@KendrickEdits]

What is sad about this is that Resident Evil is the easiest game to make a MOVIE or TV Series out of. There's no secret, put a person who knows the franchise well and with good writing and the sky is the limit BUT NOOO

[@deltavagen9796]

where are the babes

[@om3g4z3r0]

Drinker you are biased on this one, should have asked them after all these failed RE adaptations, what do they think they got that others don't, since this is a hill a lot of people died.

[@YuzoKoshiroSan]

Well, let's be honest here, the real VA for Wesker was and still is Richard Waugh.

[@KuroNoTenno]

Aw, you guys give Ethan too much shit.

[@Chayaen]

First

[@maximusbt4867]

I was sold on PlayStation because of Resident Evil. I had an SNES with Mario and stuff. Felt PlayStation was more mature. I was maybe in 6th/ 7th grade when the original debuted.

[@banhammer3904]

The Golden Age of Gaming.

[@AldrickExGladius]

I'm never got into Resident Evil. Went to a friends house waaaay back in the day and saw him playing this new game he had rented at Blockbuster (yes, I'm that old damnit!). Watched him shoot a zombie, go up to a door, loading screen...... walked thru the hall, shot another zombie, walked up to another door, loading screen..... gets in the room, does whatever with something. Then says "oh man, I gotta go back to that other room for blah blah blah", gets back to the door, loading screen.... So I said "come on dude, I just got this new zippo. Lets go set the neighborhood cats on fire and smoke cigarettes, and find porn in the woods" And never gave a shit about Resident Evil ever again...

[@aldunlop4622]

Hahaha... I had my first gaming PC in the late 90s, so was running videos off PC smooth as silk. Never played this game.

[@banhammer3904]

Life was a bit more balanced back then and so were the games. You could hang out and play games or hit the road and pick up girls. Not any more...