Ethan Winters has a face now. Chandler Riggs plays him in Biohazard, a 19-minute Resident Evil 7 fan film that Riggs also wrote and directed, and it goes online on Wednesday, October 14.

Resident Evil 7 kept Ethan behind a first-person camera, so putting an actor’s face on him is the one place the short deliberately parts ways with the game. Riggs...