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Return to Silent Hill (Movie adaptation of Silent Hill 2) - Teaser Trailer - In Cinemas Jan '26
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Looks visually faithful, but then so did the other 2.
I gotta ask though - the title (and some of this trailer) makes it sound like this is in og. movie continuity - therefore Pyramid Head is actually a returning character?
Nocty
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it was fucking shit
KyoZz
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First one was ok. The sequel is dogshit.
John Bilbo
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With such fast cuts it's hard to say much
MiguelItUp
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The first one was good, honestly one of the best video game adaptations (and this one is being made by the same director).
The second one..... doesn't count at all and should be avoided, lmao.
Judge Magister
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I don't know, James is not convincing me to be honest.. I hope it ends up being good.
I like the first movie and i've been waiting for Sony to release a 4K of it.
I like the first movie and i've been waiting for Sony to release a 4K of it.
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MiguelItUp
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I'm not sure if they'll try to connect it to the first film, and if so how. Guess we'll see.
But much like the first film, it will follow the first game, but with some differences. This will follow the second game, but with some differences. I still hate that the second film was done at all, lmao. It would've been cool if Gans could've done a decent trilogy.
Nocty
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yeah he looks like an NPC from uncharted or something
Killer8
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It looks too stylized for SH2, but at least it no longer looks like a porno.
I watched a fan edit of the first film called Restless Dreams and it was honestly pretty good once you cut out the unnecessary Sean Bean real world parts.
I watched a fan edit of the first film called Restless Dreams and it was honestly pretty good once you cut out the unnecessary Sean Bean real world parts.
luca_29_bg
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What the hell...it looks terrible and it doesn't look like Silent hill 2....i hope it's just like the trailer is cut....
SJRB
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Sir the first one has a sequence where Pyramid Head grabs a lady, rips of her skin from her body (like her entire skin) and just casually flings it towards some people who get drenched in blood.
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Danjin44
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Still don't make zero sense for Pyramid Head to be in that movie other than being the most popular design in SH series.
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poodaddy
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They're both pretty bad honestly. I think a lot of the people who remember the first one as decent haven't watched it in a long time. The last act is probably the least subtle, most hamfisted, horribly written story exposition I've ever seen in a horror film. It very literally explains the town's curse in such a manner that chatgpt would if you asked it to summarize the film's plot. The writing has zero respect for the intelligence of the audience. Killer Klowns from Outer Space is better written. Hell, Michael Bay films have had better writing, and I think they're some of the worst written films I've ever been forced to sit through.....the skin rip scene was pretty cool though. It's fresh on my mind as I watched it with my daughter recently as she was interested, and we were both laughing like hyenas at the block of exposition at the end. Just awful.
To be honest, this looks like it's gonna be awful too, but I'll probably see it anyway as the wife wants to. I sincerely hope I'm wrong, but I have very little faith. That being said, I haven't checked out the director's previous work yet, so I could be way off.
Angry_Megalodon
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Awful trailer, so much worse than the first movie, which at least got the mood right.
Judge Magister
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Yeah kinda retarded, don't know if it's accentuated by the camera angle or light.
Is the budget known? It looks cheap and Revelation was already half the budget of the first.
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Walliwallipaloo
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Well, it doesn't really look like Silent Hill 2, but as an alt take, it might be alright.
The same could be said of the first Silent Hill film. I appreciated it as an alternate take, even if it wasn't exactly faithful to the source material. But I've definitely watched worse films, that's for sure.
The same could be said of the first Silent Hill film. I appreciated it as an alternate take, even if it wasn't exactly faithful to the source material. But I've definitely watched worse films, that's for sure.
WoodyStare
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I really enjoyed the first film, and was optimistic with the original director returning for this one, but after that trailer my expectations couldn't be lower.
Arsic
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Jesus Christ
TheInfamousKira
Reseterror Resettler
These films live and die off of what music they lift wholesale from Akira Yamaoka and their Otherworld sequences.
Literally all else, for every movie, likely including this one and any future endeavor, is guaranteed to be ploughing through rivers of shit level.
Literally all else, for every movie, likely including this one and any future endeavor, is guaranteed to be ploughing through rivers of shit level.
The Cockatrice
I'm retarded?
Dont like the main dude. Looks like some emo punk, out of place. Is that what movie makers think depressed people look like lmao? All they had to do was bring Sean Bean back and it would've been fucking perfect.
Grildon Tundy
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It's written & directed by Christopher Gans, who made the first Silent Hill movie. Could actually turn out decent.
Clear
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It'll at least look good, Gans strong suit is the visuals and he's always seemed to genuinely care about the franchise.
The first movie I thought was actually pretty decent, it had some great moments even if the whole Centralia angle felt like it had drifted in from another script. That there was way too much dodgy CG at the climax was regrettable, but truthfully par for the course for movies of that time period.
Its still something of a rarity in that its a decently budgeted R-rated horror movie with a big scope and none of the pretensions of the so-called "elevated horror" that's plagued way too many releases since then,
Honestly when it comes to movie adaptations there are whole lot worse, in some cases way, way worse like the abysmal first sequel which was truly execrable.
Cautiously optimistic, but I'm not the obsessive superfan type who treats the original thing like some sort of holy writ and as result am basically impossible to please!
The first movie I thought was actually pretty decent, it had some great moments even if the whole Centralia angle felt like it had drifted in from another script. That there was way too much dodgy CG at the climax was regrettable, but truthfully par for the course for movies of that time period.
Its still something of a rarity in that its a decently budgeted R-rated horror movie with a big scope and none of the pretensions of the so-called "elevated horror" that's plagued way too many releases since then,
Honestly when it comes to movie adaptations there are whole lot worse, in some cases way, way worse like the abysmal first sequel which was truly execrable.
Cautiously optimistic, but I'm not the obsessive superfan type who treats the original thing like some sort of holy writ and as result am basically impossible to please!
Badlucktroll
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lost highway era bill pullman would have made the BEST james
John Bilbo
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I think a Silent Hill live action film needs real sets and practical effects. The location needs to feel as real a physical place as the hotel in Kubrick's Shining.
awwr999999
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The issue is that Silent Hill 2 and most games already tell their stories perfectly via a combination of cinematic cutscenes and gameplay.
The perfect Silent Hill 2 movie would be a cartoon that just extends the existing cutscenes by condensing the key gameplay moments and summarizing a game playthrough.
In effect the best that anyone could ever really do would be to do an actual perfect playthrough of Silent Hill 2 on the PS2 and edit the gameplay down to fit everything into a >2hr movie.
End result would be a high production value film that's essentially just a lazy man's ideal playthrough.
Cert.in.Death
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Slow, plodding horror rarely translates to cinema. Based on the trailer, the director doesn't even seem to be trying to replicate what makes SH2 unique or beloved.
rsouzadk
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WTFThe ads in GAF is more scary than this trailer…..
TerribleAtThisGame
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Absolutely unadulterated, steaming dog shit on every level. Right down to the dude's painful halloween store wig. The vfx look hilariously shit, the actual set elements look like they cost $50 per scene and are lit by...I don't know I'm out of insults. This looks like a modern version of those straight-to-7/11-DVD-rack movies from the 2000s.
That legit startled me, what the fuck...The ads in GAF is more scary than this trailer…..
TerribleAtThisGame
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My favorite scene in the first film was actually Rose running through the school courtyard in the other world and Sean Bean catching a whiff of her perfume. It was this weird, one-off moment where it had gravity and I felt affected.
Faithful or not, I also really dig the ultra gothic church sequence. The imagery of the bed rising up and the barbed wire carnage is just cool.
Faithful or not, I also really dig the ultra gothic church sequence. The imagery of the bed rising up and the barbed wire carnage is just cool.
peronmls
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Wrong James.That actor doesn't match up. No good shame
