Silent Hill

If you were into video games around the time of the Playstation, before it became known as the PS one, then you're familiar with the game Silent Hill.


A horror game, it opted for a slower pace with emphasis on atmospheric tension, making it a creepy as all hell adventure. Not a crash, bang, shoot em up but there were things that needed to die… again.

The basic story: your character, after a car crash, is separated from your child. You're left to wander around an abandoned town called Silent Hill. Engulfed by a perpetual fog, you try to find your missing child, searching through hollowed buildings and empty streets, solving brain teasers and puzzles to gain entrance to other parts of desolate town.

The kicker? Every know and again, the world is turned inside out. The walls resemble flesh, blood flows freely on the floor and you question your sanity just a little bit. Pasty, white bodies become animated and sacks of humanoid meat chase you and snip at you. Hell on earth, it seemed.

Sound creepy? You bet it was.

Now, Sony Pictures is making it into a movie.



Yes, it is another video game to movie, in the same vein as Resident Evil and (shudder) Doom. Not going to include Lara Croft:Tomb Raider as we're going to stick to games of the horror genre, although TR the movie was pretty atrocious.

Silent Hill, however, looks to be different. The nature of how the game derived it's scares and chills, if done correctly, will make for a memorably scary movie. From the trailer, it looks like they've got the right mix so far. I'm excited but still skeptical.
In writing the screenplay, I hope they don't feel compelled to explain anything, something else I picked up from the trailer.

Check out the trailer and tell me if you don't feel a little disturbed.