13 is an unlucky number for some 😱
But not for Crimson Heads!
We're celebrating our 13th Anniversary, and look who we found in Silent Hill 🍀
Podcast interview coming soon to your restless dreams...
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THE original
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concept art by Isao Oishi and his team! Never before published, exclusively available in our mansion gallery for members to download in high resolution>
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#Biohazard
"I was expecting Nemesis to give me a more deeper gameplay experience than I had with the Tyrant in Resident Evil 2. I would have liked to see Nemesis play a more active role"
— Resident Evil 3 Director Kazuhiro Aoyama interview with Crimson-Head>
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#RE2
"I wanted to make biohazard 4 scarier, suggesting the main character travelled into a hallucinatory world caused by something caught in his vision, a trigger of horror":
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writer Yasuhisa Kawamura speaks to Crimson-Head:
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'Resident Evil Director’s Cut Official Survival Guide' by Gamefan Books. The Holy Grail of rare Resident Evil strategy guides. High resolution scans can be downloaded by residents of Crimson-Head:
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A very rare sight, Forest Spyer in zombie form by Isao Ōishi, never published in any guide book, but seen on this Toy Biz box art! 😍
Check out more original Resident Evil concept art by Isao Ōishi in the Crimson-Head library:
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Paul Haddad was a gentleman, wonderful actor, friend to all in the RE community. He shared his experiences so warmly. Despite his struggle with ill-health Paul so genuinely wanted to engage with fans and we were honoured to be a part of that for his role reprisal. Leon forever.
We all know it's wishful thinking to hope for some Resident Evil 3.5 beta cameos in the remake of Resident Evil 4, but enjoy the origins of the progenitor with
#ResidentEvil4
writer YASUHISA KAWAMURA, with our exclusive interview:
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'Resident Evil Director’s Cut Official Survival Guide' by Gamefan Books. The Holy Grail of rare Resident Evil strategy guides with detailed concept art for Jill Valentine & her S.T.A.R.S. teammates!
600 dpi scans:
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PAUL HADDAD quote "Let's EMBRACE it, because Resident Evil, the game itself, is the backbone of what we all LOVE, so let's SUPPORT anybody who is keeping it alive"
#PaulHaddad
on finding out he was not
#LeonKennedy
for
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Interview:
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🚨Exclusive Developer Interview🚨
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lead writer KENICHI IWAO: "S.T.A.R.S. story was cut considerably. Some of Bravo team were alive, talking, turning to zombies, using them more for uncovering the situation."
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Crimson-Head Interview:
Kazuhiro Aoyama "RE7 wouldn't have been made if Capcom hadn’t gone through their experiences with RE4/5/6. Without those experiences RE7 wouldn't have come out in the form it did, something gamers should remember" Crimson-Head Interview:
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"Birkin monster got a huge eye because we wanted a symbol that would be easily recognisable even if deformed. G5’s design is inspired by the Japanese food Tokoroten!"
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Designer Ryoji Shimogama speaks to Crimson-Head:
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Rare collection of press previews for Resident Evil 2 beta build, commonly refered to as 'Resident Evil 1.5'
Residents of can download the full collection here>
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"FOG is a gaseous bio-weapon by HCF, a new company Wesker belonged to. HCF brought it, planning to seize Umbrella HQ, Spencer’s castle! They ran into and battled with Leon’s army...": Yasuhisa Kawamura Interview with Crimson-Head:
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"I wanted to make biohazard 4 scarier, I suggested that the main character travelled into a hallucinatory world, caused by something caught in his vision, a trigger of horror" Yasuhisa Kawamura
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writer speaks to Crimson-Head:
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"When I heard Mikami's story it sounded like Mega Man, it wasn't suitable for horror. I persuaded Mikami that an action setting didn't match horror. I had to start over from the beginning":
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writer Kenichi Iwao Interview
#1
with Crimson-Head:
Quote:"I remember this image well, it’s sad it was removed. It shows the personalities of S.T.A.R.S very well, and as for Brad, he's a coward!"
—
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Director Kazuhiro Aoyama speaks exclusively to Crimson-Head:
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Rare collection of press previews for Resident Evil Zero beta build for the Nintendo 64.
Residents of can download the full collection here>
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Extremely rare Resident Evil guide by Gamefan, very few in circulation, but this mint condition copy can be found in our mansion library!
Only residents of can download 600 dpi resolution scans>
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Original Jill Valentine concept design, having just been renamed from Jill Morrisson! Want to know what the Japanese text tells us about Jill's original biography?
Become a resident of our
#ResidentEvil
mansion to find out!
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Exclusive Translation:
With Resident Evil 4 in the news we thought it a good time to remind fans of our article on the beta Resident Evil 3.5 including our interview with Yasuhisa Kawamura: "A horror hallucination world in real-time":
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If we had to descibe the atmosphere of our website in a Resident Evil poster, it would be with this film noir style poster for the original Resident Evil (artist unknown)
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Resident Evil 3.5 press previews, prior to Shinji Mikami deciding on a different direction for Resident Evil 4!
600dpi scans:
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DID YOU KNOW
#ResidentEvil4
wasn't always about saving the president's daughter! It started life as a psychological horror taking inspiration from the film 'Lost Souls'!
Interview with
#RE4
developer Yasuhisa Kawamura:
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This is a 'Silent Hill Downpour' appreciation tweet
(Please scare us this much Resident Evil) 😱
Members of our team have been playing this survival horror gem but can't share our gameplay, Konami don't allow sharing to Xbox network!
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#SilentHillDownpour
We have a huge album of Resident Evil 1.5 scans, archived in our RESIDENTS ONLY section!
Become a 'Crimson Head Elder' to gain access to some of the more rarer items procured over the last 10 years>
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#Capcom
"Capcom asked me 'What is Resident Evil', my response was it's dark, scary, cinematic, survival horror, but I was told NO this game you're working on has more to do with Call of Duty": Operation Raccoon City director Andrew Santos:
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We're always on the hunt for Resident Evil 1.5 press previews, and boast a large archive of scans for our residents. Today we've added a few more!🧐
Full album:
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#RE2
Love how
@BekkaPrewitt
& her sisters bring back that Alexia Ashford vibe back into the series in such a fresh & unique way. More actors & female antagonists like this please
@RE_Games
AND thank you Bekka for your amazing kindness to the fans
#WeLoveBekka
SHINJI MIKAMI:"The only thing I can tell you now is biohazard 4 will definitely release only on the GameCube, not on another console, if it happens, I will commit seppuku"🤥
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Source: Hyper Capcom Special 2002 Summer (Translation by
@project_umb
)
MANY secrets of the Spencer Mansion & canon info revealed by our translation of Capcom's 'Inside of BIOHAZARD'. High-res scans with English translations by
@PaulNB45
>
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'BIOHAZARD 7 resident evil Document file' is a Japanese art-book documenting challenges faced during game production, through the eyes of the development team with interviews, commentaries & concepts... Creepy concepts!
600dpi scans:
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We found the original source for a pair of iconic books from the Spencer Mansion library. Would you like a bedtime story from Oswell E. Spencer?😱
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Some more scans of press previews for Resident Evil 1.5
Residents of can download the full collection from our mansion library>
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#REBHFun
We should definitely spend more time covering the Demento/Haunting Ground series, don't you think? Here are some scans we stumbled across in our archives.
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#Demento
DELIGHTED to announce
@JenVonLee
has joined team 🎉
We're celebrating with
@Nik_apostolides
& a
#ResidentEvil4
livestream!
Watch Nick & Jen save the president's daughter with hedgehog & Oreo love 🦔 🍪
FRIDAY 13th 😱 1PM PT/4PM ET:
Marvel vs. Capcom comic featuring Chris Redfield & Albert Wesker, just one of many rare high resolution scans found in the archives!
Residents of our mansion can download 600dpi scans thanks to
@SamuraiEdge85
:
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As we test our new website design, our article on biohazard 3.5 is now up! Please take the time to leave your feedback in comments section (bottom of page) if you enjoy the read, but watch out for that hook!
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DID YOU... of course you know who designed the Spencer Mansion BUT did you know the original sketches can ONLY be found in the original
#SurvivalHorror
mansion: ! Become a resident today & be first to see our
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1.5 world exclusives coming soon!
Rare collection of press previews for Yasuhisa Kawamura's Resident Evil 4 beta build, commonly refered to as 'Resident Evil 3.5'
Residents of can download the full collection here>
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#Capcom
"OK I will admit that it’s probably my fault! I remember people coming up to me about the water sample puzzle complaining about it!": Kazuhiro Aoyama interview live from Tokyo with Crimson-Head.
Audio & transcription:
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"I knew Wesker was to become a traitor! But to save memory foreshadowing ideas were cut. He was clear-headed but tragic, lacking human emotion. The only way he could live was to affirm his intense elitism" KENICHI IWAO speaks to Crimson-Head:
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Please send your love, support & best wishes to
@TheOracleDragon
She is going through an extremely terrible & very challenging time. She is the kindest, most forgiving person, always seeing the best in everyone. She doesnt deserve the very tragic awfulness she's now going through
"What makes horror so scary... things that are real such as germ infections, psychopathic crimes, this is the case with Nosferatu. The scariest thing is when people change just slightly" — Satoshi Nakai speaks to Crimson-Head:
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#CodeVeronica
Jill Valentine concept for
#CodeVeronica
by lead designer Satoshi Nakai. Jill was replaced by Clare due to Hideki Kamiya's inclusion of the dialogue "It's up to us to take down Umbrella" at the end of
#ResidentEvil2
.
More exclusive development materials:
LOVE
#ResidentEvil
& want to find out more about its development & rare facts about your favourite characters? Please check out
@SamuraiEdge85
to find cool observations & rare images. His work is often taken by others without credit, let's support the original source!
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Rare collection of press previews/reviews for Resident Evil Survivor! Its insidious story, sinister atmosphere & unique character paths are all series highs
residents can download full collection here>
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#Capcom
"I wanted to portray the fear of losing free-will by becoming a zombie. The zombies originally being humans, was very important to me"
— Kenichi Iwao interview with Crimson-Head:
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This is the
@SwanHJA
appreciation post - for many fans she is their quintessential Jill Valentine. Thank you Heidi for an amazing performance in Resident Evil Remake ♥️
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Resident Evil 4 E3 2003 trailer shows Leon's mental deterioration from the fog virus, but was yet to show any physical effects. That would come in later footage from 'Hallucination biohazard 4' / ' 幻の「バイオハザード4 '
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#ResidnentEvil
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"Raccoon City Hospital was just where vaccines were stored & wasn’t considered a stage. Resident Evil 3 changing to a main title with the extra development time & resources allowed us to expand it" — Kazuhiro Aoyama speaks to Crimson-Head:
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A world exclusive by Crimson-Head translation team with the premiere translation of
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’s manga series バイオハザード・マルハワデザイア Biohazard Marhawa Desire. Originally published in Weekly Shōnen Champion as prequel to
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6: Translation:
We have a wide selection of exclusive translations from Japanese Biohazard media, including the informative 'DARKSIDE REPORT', only available with Biohazard The Darkside Chronicles (Collector's Package):
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Creepy dolls have always been part of the sinister atmosphere of Umbrella facilities overtaken by a virus nightmare, making Resident Evil sometimes feel like a ghost story... well it was inspired by Sweet Home!
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Can't celebrate
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25th Anniversary without championing the man who wrote the story & devised the characters, Kenichi Iwao. For our 10th Anniversary we'll be releasing our 2nd exclusive interview with Kenichi Iwao! Details on our new podcast:
We are currently working on a huge project to translate the full set of Biohazard CODE: Veronica comics which contain additional pages not included in the Hong Kong 4-set graphic novel edition
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Today marks 3rd anniversary of the passing of Resident Evil legend Paul Haddad. We were privileged to share his warmth & generosity on our podcast, a true gentleman, reprising his role for us (listen below) Mr. Paul 'Leon S. Kennedy' Haddad
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"I created the logo with the meaning 'Protecting the world from viruses with an umbrella' with a behind-closed-doors meaning 'Ruling the world with viruses under an umbrella'" KENICHI IWAO Resident Evil lead writer speaks to Crimson-Head:
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We've just added more rare scans from press previews for 'Resident Evil 1.5' to our archive that now totals 50 pages of extensive details on this beta gem!
Full album:
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DEVELOPER ANNOUNCEMENT: "WHEN
#CAPCOM
ASKED ME WHAT IS
#ResidentEvil
? I said it's DARK, SCARY, CINEMATIC
#SurvivalHorror
, HOWEVER I WAS TOLD..." Stay tuned for our EXPLOSIVE INTERVIEW with Director Andrew Santos! Submit your questions:
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#RE2remake
Our favourite RPD officer Marvin Branagh was portrayed superbly by
@CMychaelW
in
#ResidentEvil2Remake
Would have been wonderful to see Marvin survive & enjoy MB DLC with CMW!
Listen to
@CMychaelW
speak on his passion for gaming &
#ResidentEvil2
:
Interview>
We've added more answers, recently translated from our Interview with Resident Evil writer & planner Yasuyuki Saga, who created the tragic Trevor family & many iconic game-files! (special thanks Welsh)
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Exclusive Interview:
Resident Evil Director’s Cut Survival Guide, the holy grail of guides, isn't the only rarity in our mansion, residents will find a wealth of exclusive & little-known Resident Evil media, inc. S.T.A.R.S art by Isao Oishi:
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"Raccoon City hospital was just where vaccines were stored, it wasn’t considered as a stage. Resident Evil 3 changing to a main title with extra development time allowed us to expand it"
— Kazuhiro Aoyama interview with Crimson-Head:
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#Capcom
What sort of person even contemplates letting Richard Aiken perish, so that Rebecca will then give Chris V-Jolt, and his battle with Plant 42 becomes much easier? We would never let such a callous gamer join our team...
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QUOTE: "Before I joined the story was like a cartoon & childish. Names didn’t feel realistic for gamers to feel fear, so I changed the setting & names" — Kenichi Iwao Exclusive Interview with Crimson-Head:
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RARE
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comic published in 1996 depicting S.T.A.R.S. Bravo team! Become a resident at for 600dpi scans without watermarks!
Enter the survival horror>
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Search 'Rarities' section for 600dpi scans without watermarks of rare Biohazard guide books! Like these from 'Biohazard Shueisha V-Jump'.
Download link>
Become a resident today to unlock all scans!
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