Prevent Crimson Heads in Resident Evil

After 20 minutes to an hour, sometimes less, in Resident Evil 1 remake on the GameCube, deceased zombies will resurrect as Crimson Heads. Crimson Heads are a type of zombie (named V-ACT by Umbrella) and can run, jump, and sport small claws.

Steps

1. Decapitate it.
   • Shotgun: To blow off its head, wait until the zombie gets really close to you, and then aim up and fire.
   • Handgun/Samurai Edge: After two well placed shots to its upper chest, you might get lucky and blow off its head on the third shot. Also, when you and the zombie are at slightly different elevations and you aim up or down to its level, you have a higher chance of scoring a headshot. Samurai Edge gets more headshots than the Handgun. Under normal circumstances with the Handgun, about 1 in 10 shots will blow off their head.
   • Magnum: You almost automatically get a headshot with this, but you should try to save Magnum ammo for the end of the game.
2. Blow off its knee caps. This is done by aiming a shotgun downwards when it is close to you. This can also be done with the Handgun, and maybe other weapons. Make sure to kill it afterwards or it will come back as a zombie to full health once you re-enter the room or start crawling around the room right after.
3. Incinerate it.
   • Fire on it with the Do the Grenade Launcher Glitch in Resident Evil, with the glitch for extra ammo done with Incendiary Rounds.
   • Burn it with Kerosene and the Lighter. The Fuel Canteen is what you fill with Kerosene, and is found in the East Stairs Save Room (the first save room you find). There are stationary bottles of Kerosene located all around the game for you to refill your Fuel Canteen (it only holds enough Kerosene to kill 2 separate zombies).

Tips

• You can tell that a zombie won't come back if the body disappears once you leave the room and then come back to check.
• If you are going to burn it with the Lighter and Fuel Canteen, you should try to kill the zombies on top of each other so the corpses are stacked, then it will take less Kerosene.
• If you've unlocked it, don't expect the infinite Rocket Launcher to incinerate zombies. It will only kill them.
• Using the Lighter and Fuel Canteen takes up inventory space and wastes time going to put it back, so don't use it if you are trying to set a record for your time taken to beat the game. Use them before you get the Grenade Launcher.

Warnings

• When burning zombies, from either Kerosene or the Grenade Launcher, be warned that you will take damage if you touch them or get too close.

Things You'll Need

• A weapon
  • Handgun
  • Samurai Edge
  • Magnum
  • Shotgun/Assault Shotgun
  • Grenade Launcher w/Incendiary Rounds
• or stuff for burning them
  • Lighter
  • Filled Fuel Canteen

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