YouTube interest for resident evil printed 38 for the week of September 26 2026, up 22.58% from 31 on September 19 and up 153.33% from 15 on August 29. Trends MCP get_growth on source youtube, pulled September 27 2026, also reads +216.67% over 1 year from 12 on September 27 2025. The weekly freeze holds 261 points from October 2 2021 through September 26 2026. Sony opened Zach Cregger's film in the United States on September 18 2026. Variety, dated September 20, put the domestic opening at $60 million and the global start at $108.3 million. Wikipedia's running total on the film page is $123.3 million.
About Resident Evil
Resident Evil is Capcom's survival-horror franchise, with the first game shipping in 1996, a 2026 live-action reboot Wikipedia lists as the eighth film and a second reboot after 2021's Welcome to Raccoon City, plus a $75 million listed production budget. Zach Cregger directs from a script with Shay Hatten. Austin Abrams plays Bryan, a medical courier in Raccoon City. Wikipedia lists the runtime as 95 minutes.
Sony opened the film in the United States on September 18 2026 after a Los Angeles premiere on September 15. Variety's September 20 box-office report put the domestic opening at $60 million from 3,684 locations, with $48.3 million overseas for a $108.3 million global start. Deadline, also dated September 20, called that worldwide open the franchise record. Wikipedia, citing figures as of September 22, puts the running total at $123.3 million. Capcom dated Resident Evil Requiem to February 27 2026 and said on March 4 that worldwide sales had surpassed 5 million units, then on March 16 that the total had cleared 6 million.
What the time series shows
YouTube interest for resident evil climbed from 31 on September 19 2026 to 38 on September 26, a 7-point second-week lift that sits 62 points under the March 7 2026 peak of 100 on this stored weekly YouTube freeze file. Same-day get_growth on youtube matches the freeze: 31 to 38 (+22.58%) over 7 days, 15 to 38 (+153.33%) over 30 days, 12 to 38 (+216.67%) over 1 year. Last eight weekly values are 16, 15, 15, 15, 16, 18, 31, and 38, a flat mid-teens summer then two theatrical Saturdays.
The 100 on March 7 is the game, not the film. Requiem shipped February 27. The series printed 32 on February 21, 64 on February 28, and 100 on March 7, then 78, 57, 44 through March 28. CinemaCon footage arrived April 13, when the weekly value was already 32. By August 29 the series was 15. Opening week printed 31 on September 19. The chart window starts 2026-01-03 (value 18) under Since Jan 2026.
Which Trends MCP calls return this series
The stored keyword is resident evil on source youtube, and that exact pair is what get_time_series and get_growth used for the 38, the 22 percent 7-day move, and the 261-week REST freeze pulled September 27 2026 on that source alone. A Google Search series for the same string exists. That Search index is a different series. It is not mixed into the 38, the 100, or the chart.
IMDb MOVIEmeter listed Resident Evil (2026) at rank 1 on the September 27 2026 pull. Wikipedia Trending had Resident Evil (2026 film) at rank 15. Neighbor 30-day get_growth on google search, same day: silent hill townfall +3233.33% (3 to 100), practical magic 2 +72.0% (25 to 43), mega man -9.46% (74 to 67), the odyssey -46.67% (15 to 8), gta 6 -76.54% (81 to 19), spiderman brand new day -71.43% (14 to 4). Those Search deltas are neighbors only.
A copy-paste pair for Claude or Cursor:
get_time_series source="youtube" keyword="resident evil"
get_growth source="youtube" keyword="resident evil" percent_growth=["7D","30D","1Y"]
REST is the same body at https://api.trendsmcp.ai/api with Authorization: Bearer and mode set to get_time_series or get_growth. The freeze is 261 weekly {date, value} points, first 2021-10-02, last 2026-09-26, with no smoothing. Chart PNG reads chart_from 2026-01-03 and chart_label Since Jan 2026.
Trailer-native watch boards sit on YouTube Trends. Game-adjacent topic pages include Mega Man and GTA 6. Those pages use their own sources and should not be added to this 38.