Silent Hill movie trailer

[Scaryboy]

The Christopher Gans/ Roger Avery adaptation of Silent Hill finally has a proper trailer and is actually looking pretty darn good. Click here (http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/silenthill.html) for the foggy goodness.

[RevGored]

Rad, looks like we may get a good videogame tie-in film for once.

I mean, ASIDE from Super Mario Bros.

[atrus20]

I can't wait! This is looking better with every teaser/trailer that comes up. I'm a big fan of the first Silent Hill game and I love what they have shown so far. I may have to find a copy of the frist game to re-live some good memories.

[Krom]

Am I the only one that thinks this looks really dumb? I mean it looks like they're sticking to the same material as the game, but it just doesn't look like it's going to come together. We'll see I guess.

[Echani]

At this point, all of the doubts I had about this movie - quite rightfully stemming from other video game adaptations - are fading swiftly. I can't wait to see the whole thing :)

[IndependentGMR]

Am I the only one that thinks this looks really dumb? I mean it looks like they're sticking to the same material as the game, but it just doesn't look like it's going to come together. We'll see I guess.

I kind of appreciate the fact that they're sticking with material from the game. It seems a lot like the first game, but with a female lead.

Plus, they put the nurses in, and they look just as freaky as they did in the games. You also get a glimpse of Pyramid Head.

[EGO]

I kind of appreciate the fact that they're sticking with material from the game. It seems a lot like the first game, but with a female lead.

If you look at it, the movie looks like it spans the period prior to the first game all the way up to the third. It look very faithful to the source material, which is good and bad.

The fact that you're worried about it coming together is only because the source story is an incoherant mess. It's a great series of games and they're fun/scary (for the most part, but I'm a ResEvil fan), but the story never really makes any sense.

This movie looks like it's going to be great! Not sure if it'll trump the mastery of Bloodrayne, but really... what can? :rolleyes: :p

[Vandenh]

I am sorry... that looks like a total crapfest. Even the trailer doesn't make any sense.

[BleedTheFreak]

I am sorry... that looks like a total crapfest. Even the trailer doesn't make any sense.

Why are you sorry? Everyone's entitled to an opinion. Still, I thought it looked pretty interesting, though I've never played any of the SH games.

On an unrelated note, how do you have a gamerscore of 295 without having played any games?

[overdrivechao]

It looks great. Thank god its not an Uwe Boll film. Everything looked really high end, especially the walls, music and baddies. Go Silent Hill! If you want to see thsi trailer in a larger, more ominous format, go see underworld.

[Mason]

About the worst thing I saw was the police/husband scene. You aren't supposed to make goddamn cell phone calls from Silent Hill. The only noise you should be hearing from your phone should be static, and that should indicate something very bad is about to happen.

(aside: right after I wrote this and started on the next paragraph, I swear to fucking god, one of my rear speakers made a bad-analog-connection-static hiss that it has never made before. that's screwed up)

Cutting away to anything outside the town breaks the immersion and makes Silent Hill seem just like a physical place that anyone can access. I mean, if in the games it had ever felt like you could simply call the cops, or run far enough in one direction and be out of the fog, they'd be a lot less scary.

edit: And I'm not referring to the policewoman in the town, but rather the husband trying to get the police to come help.

[DrHogie]

Mason, I can see that -- except Silent Hill (Samael, etc.) would allow someone to try and contact someone else to enter,if only to feed off of them too.

This trailer looks beyond great. It's better than I ever could have hoped for. And PYRAMID HEAD~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! AND THEY USED THE SILENT HILL 2 MUSIC IN THE TRAILER~!!~~!~!~!

Sorry, my wife and I are Silent Hill fanbois. April 21st can't get here fast enough.

[Morrolan]

Looks like a pretty stock creep-out. But if it's a well-made stock creep-out, it'll be a huge step up for video-game movies.

[JRR006]

I agree, Mason! Not even Sean Bean playing the husband can make up for that particular aspect. The best part of the trailer for me was when the Silent Hill music started up, there at the end. It's not that it looks bad, per se... I've watched it a couple of times now, and I just don't feel excited. Time will tell, anyway!

[Reanimated]

Looks boring... like every game after the original has been. .

[Abednigo]

I may have to give up my ban on horror movies for this one.

[SynapseLapse]

http://mp3content02.bcst.yahoo.com/proot1/PubShare02/yahoointernal/11/21764261.mov direct quicktime link for those that hate embedded video >.<

[PantherModern]

As a fan, I can say that they are doing a lot of things very, very right. The trailer choices were well made. It really seems like they are gelling most of the main Silent Hill stories into one (hopefully) cohesive whole. The main plot is obviously utilizing the bulk of SH1, but there are elements from the SH comic book (the Christabella character), SH3 (the path to hell stuff), and SH2 (pyramid head, an estranged husband attempting to reconnect with his wife). No SH4 that I could see, but I bet there will be a Walter Sullivan reference in there somewhere.

About the worst thing I saw was the police/husband scene. You aren't supposed to make goddamn cell phone calls from Silent Hill. The only noise you should be hearing from your phone should be static, and that should indicate something very bad is about to happen.


I agree on the point about the phone, but it looked like she may have still been in the car when it crashes on the outskirts of town, not in Silent Hill proper. I just watched it again, and that seems to be the case, which is justifiable.

I am super-excited now. I mean seriously. They are using the imagery and feel of the game to the max, while still putting some original spin on it so it isn't a retread. You can really see the Jacob's Ladder references once the images are committed to celluloid. Awesome! Way to go Christophe Gans!

W00000T!

[Rafer]

Looks good. I hope for a film transcends the stigma of being a video game adaptation, the same way films like Ghostworld and Road to Perdition transcend the stigma of being comic book adaptation.

[Mason]

As a fan, I can say that they are doing a lot of things very, very right. The trailer choices were well made. It really seems like they are gelling most of the main Silent Hill stories into one (hopefully) cohesive whole. The main plot is obviously utilizing the bulk of SH1, but there are elements from the SH comic book (the Christabella character), SH3 (the path to hell stuff), and SH2 (pyramid head, an estranged husband attempting to reconnect with his wife). No SH4 that I could see, but I bet there will be a Walter Sullivan reference in there somewhere.
I hope that they keep the SH2 elements minimal, so that they can present that story in full. You could get a really great screenplay from that game through little more than copy and paste. If done really well, that could actually be a quality film of artistic merit.
I agree on the point about the phone, but it looked like she may have still been in the car when it crashes on the outskirts of town, not in Silent Hill proper. I just watched it again, and that seems to be the case, which is justifiable.
My main point wasn't that the mechanics of using the phone was impossible, but rather that isolation is a major part of the Silent Hill experience. It doesn't matter when she calls, because if a bunch of cops are coming to save the day (whether or not they actually could save the day), it ruins the whole atmosphere.

And Samael doesn't seem too interested in grabbing people willy-nilly. SH1 involved mostly people associated with the town's past, and SH2 involved people repressing dark memories. The horror of the town is clearly subjective; the little girl in SH2 is perfectly safe and doesn't see any monsters.

[AversionFX]

Is the movie related to any of the games, or is it a unique storyline?

edit: Seems a LOT like the first game, with the car crash, how she wakes up rubbing her head. Down to how her girl is named "Sharon," as opposed to Harry's daughter being named "Cheryl". The movie looks like it'll be worth seeing, although I don't particularly like the use of the cell phone and how there were a lot of people.

To me, Silent Hill was made even more eerie and tense by the absolute scarcity of other humans. And in this movie, there just seems to be too much interaction. I also don't like how the movie seems to tie very heavily in with the first game, but yet, instead of a male lead (or even a character named Harry), we have a female.

Women in horror movies just kind of annoy me, because they're always the "scare easily, but somehow still miraculously survive against all odds."

[YoungAlCapone]

Looks really good, I have only played parts 2 and 3 but recognized plot points in there.

I never saw pyramid head in the trailer, I will have to re-watch it since no single character in the history of videogames has ever traumatized me nearly as much as pyramid head.

[Mason]

Women in horror movies just kind of annoy me, because they're always the "scare easily, but somehow still miraculously survive against all odds."
So long as they don't have sex or get naked. Virginal females can survive anything, sluts have a shorter life expectancy than janitors or security guards.

Yeah, it seems like a retelling of SH1, mostly. And a couple of the people that she meets fit into that. But her husband googling for info on Silent Hill just isn't right. Yes, you need a bit of exposition to explain the SH1 plotline, but it'd probably be more effective to handle that inside the town, like the games do.

And the deal with other humans in the town is why I want to see a proper film of SH2. SH1 doesn't profit a lot from the other humans wandering the town, they just convolute the plot, but in SH2 the other humans add so much to the atmosphere and, ironically, isolation. You aren't alone in SH2 because you can't find other people, you're alone because everyone is adrift in their own fog of memory.

[Banacek]

SH2 was one of my favorite games story-wise. SH3 and 4 went back to the roots, but I really hope that they make a new one in the SH2 vein again someday...

[PantherModern]

Personally, I'm not going to get up in arms about some of the Husband stuff yet. Trailers aren't necessarily chronological in nature, and we have no idea when or how or why the Husband researches Silent Hill as a town. If anything, it may be that they are going to use the Husband's outside storyline to emphasize the multi-dimensional nature of Silent Hill. Maybe he shows up with the cops to try and help and there's absolutely nothing wrong because he and the cops can't see what is going on with the wife and Cybill, hence the altercation in the trailer. I mean, if you slow it down and look at the surroundings, it is bright, rainy, and altogether NOT Silent Hill as the main character is seeing it.

The number of characters still seems pretty light, too, and the main character seems to be alone for a lot of the time. Wife character, Husband, Duaghter, Christabella, Cybill, crazy old lady (probably Dahlia)...and monsters. And it is true that you have to have people on screen to talk to in order to handle exposition. They obviously aren't using VON, and you just can't have a character who is alone talking to themselves all the time.

I dunno. I've played every SH game at least 5 times, and it just feels right to me. It may not be exact, but they are truly getting at the spirit of the game, which is more than most game adaptations have done. I'll probably try to keep expectations low, but it is going to be hard.

[AversionFX]

So long as they don't have sex or get naked. Virginal females can survive anything, sluts have a shorter life expectancy than janitors or security guards.

Yeah, it seems like a retelling of SH1, mostly. And a couple of the people that she meets fit into that. But her husband googling for info on Silent Hill just isn't right. Yes, you need a bit of exposition to explain the SH1 plotline, but it'd probably be more effective to handle that inside the town, like the games do.


Hahaha, that first point was just awesome.

But yeah, when I saw him looking up Silent Hill, I was like "Dubya tee eff?" Boromir charges into battle! He doesn't survey the arena! But back to the whole... exposition of plot. I LOVED how you got a really eerie feeling for things when you were in the hospital, and you would find notes a/the nurse would write, like how the wounds people had were unnatural, etc, and how scary it was.

This all makes me want to play through SH1 again.

[Mason]

Personally, I'm not going to get up in arms about some of the Husband stuff yet. Trailers aren't necessarily chronological in nature, and we have no idea when or how or why the Husband researches Silent Hill as a town. If anything, it may be that they are going to use the Husband's outside storyline to emphasize the multi-dimensional nature of Silent Hill. Maybe he shows up with the cops to try and help and there's absolutely nothing wrong because he and the cops can't see what is going on with the wife and Cybill, hence the altercation in the trailer. I mean, if you slow it down and look at the surroundings, it is bright, rainy, and altogether NOT Silent Hill as the main character is seeing it.
I think you're perfectly correct; none of the elements we've seen mean that there'll be anything wrong with the movie. It could pull it all off masterfully. I'm just big on managing my own expectations, so expecting something Boll-esque is the easiest way of being pleasantly surprised. The movie will end up the same quality regardless of what we think about it, so I'll just assume that the writer/director doesn't get SH for now, and hope to be happily wrong whenever it comes out.

[PantherModern]

If you look at it, the movie looks like it spans the period prior to the first game all the way up to the third. It look very faithful to the source material, which is good and bad.

The fact that you're worried about it coming together is only because the source story is an incoherant mess. It's a great series of games and they're fun/scary (for the most part, but I'm a ResEvil fan), but the story never really makes any sense.


I'm sorry, man. But does RE make sense to you? Seriously, I'm curious. Those games have plots that are so nonsensical that I sometimes try to imagine a world where cross-dressing heirs to vast fortunes attempt save their sisters who have been organically fused with ants, working for some giant corporation that hides multi-million dollar research facilities in loosely guarded mansions in the middle of forests that are overrun with white-wearing Jesus guys that control black bugs and can only be stopped by some dudes from a SWAT team in a tiny burg in the middle of nowhere. It's really hard for some reason.

I love RE, but their plots hardly make sense. They are simply complete, and require no interpretation from the player. SH leaves most of the hard storytelling up to the person playing. I'm a big fan of President Evil's (Dan Birlew from Brady Games, who wrote the guides for SH 2 & 3) SH plot guide over on gamefaqs (http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/psx/file/silent_hill_plot.txt) .

It asks some good questions and really kind of gets one thinking about the series. There are tons of others on there as well. I honestly think that is why this series is so endearing to so many. It allows room for us to add to the story and put it together how we like, or just talk about it with friends and get their read. I introduced a friend to the series a while back, and we have had some awesome discussions concerning the plots of 1 & 2, and he is almost done with 3, so I can't wait to get his take on that. It's just a different type of storytelling, really. Give it a try, and it will worm into your head like nuthin.

[Mason]

I agree, Mason! Not even Sean Bean playing the husband can make up for that particular aspect. The best part of the trailer for me was when the Silent Hill music started up, there at the end. It's not that it looks bad, per se... I've watched it a couple of times now, and I just don't feel excited. Time will tell, anyway!

I'd really recommend checking out the SH2 remixes (http://www.ocremix.org/game/63/) at OCR, if you haven't yet. The Wingless and Steve Pordon ones are both good.

[player66]

Wow, finally a filmmaker/studio is making a vg movie that actually feels and looks like the source material. Now the challenge is to make it a good film at the same time...we'll see.

[Megalith]

I like how they actually used music from the game for the trailer. I thought that the town needed more fog or grittiness in the daytime scenes, but the dark realm part looks identical to parts of SH3, which is awesome.

The poster is idiotic, by the way.

[alienchild]

SH4 fucked it all up, it made me loose interest in the series - or rather, in how it develops. Now, I look back at 1-3 like I do a dead relative, with acceptance and grief for the loss.

anyways, movie looks great, but Mr. Boll took away all my believes in VG movies. I guess I scare easily.

[mister_slim]

It's nice to see Christopher Gans is making this movie. He has a nice touch with music and the camera.

[Spigot]

Wow, that's one sweet looking trailer. I was a little leery after the first teaser came out but this one has banished those doubts. I'll definately make it to the theatre to see this one.

Pyramid Head was a welcome surprise and I have to admit that it seems to be sticking quite closely to the SH1 storyline from what they show in the teaser.

I do wonder how they'll be able to make the story make sense for those not intimately familiar with the SH1 story and the SH mythos in general. SH1 does make sense but you really need to go over the plot guide after finishing it to see how all of the various bits interconnect. I just don't think they'll be handing out plot FAQ's with your movie ticket, so either the storyline will be radically dumbed down OR made much more blatant.

Ah well. Still looks like an awesome videogame movie (finally).

[Grimmjow]

I kind of appreciate the fact that they're sticking with material from the game. It seems a lot like the first game, but with a female lead.

Plus, they put the nurses in, and they look just as freaky as they did in the games. You also get a glimpse of Pyramid Head.

i agree this totally fits the first one story..jus a female view i love the trailer.i think it may be the best video game adaption to movie YET! :D

all i gota say is PRYRAMID HEAD IS BACK!

[Captain Awesome]

This could be the first well done game-based movie. Brotherhood of The Wolf rocked.


Looking forward to this and Pyramidhead :)

[KidCactus]

The first teaser trailer actually looked more interesting I think, this just made everything look computer animated and not so creepy. And on the topic of creepy: Silent Hill vs Bunny The Tapdancer (http://www.youtube.com/w/Bunny-Hill?v=1o2iCdhV54k)

[Spigot]

Yarg. That link is probably scarier than Silent Hill proper...

[Grimmjow]

The first teaser trailer actually looked more interesting I think, this just made everything look computer animated and not so creepy. And on the topic of creepy: Silent Hill vs Bunny The Tapdancer (http://www.youtube.com/w/Bunny-Hill?v=1o2iCdhV54k)


i dont wanna click that link :(