Matt Haigh, from Den of Geek, is a big Silent Hill fan. He has some suggestions for the next Silent Hill movie, including limiting the ridiculous CGI, not adding a pointless twist at the ending, and not adding the cliche "spooky children" that seem to pop up in these types of films.
To add to Haigh's suggestions, we can only hope that the directors will be smart enough to base the movie's storyline off the second game. It would fit perfectly if Sean Bean's Christopher goes into Silent Hill (ala "James Sunderland") in search for his wife Rose ("Mary"), Radha Mitchell comes back in the second movie playing "Rosa" ("Maria"), and the inevitable horrors that poor Christopher will suffer through Silent Hill's manifestations. See where I'm going with this? The director would have to be blind not to see the possibility!
Videogame adaptations are, on the whole, not great. The first Silent Hill film proved a rare exception to the rule. Granted, it was not perfect, but by the same token it did not disappoint too heavily.
As a massive fan of the game franchise, I have devised a list of things the film makers should do to ensure this second adaptation does not take this promising series and drop it dead in the water.
Limit the use of CGI
Personally, I’ve never, ever been convinced that CGI is better than real-life, and it certainly isn’t scary. So, if the Wolf Man can do without computers, then so can Silent Hill.
DON’T bring back Pyramid Head
This colossal monstrosity first appears in Silent Hill 2 of the game franchise. He is the guilt of the main character personified, and therefore is very specific to that particular story. Taking him out of context and just throwing him into the mix in the first Silent Hill film was bad enough, so don’t repeat the same mistake. Invent a new monster, with its own meaning.
No spooky children
It’s just a cheap trick that stopped being scary after The Sixth Sense. I’m not even entirely sure why this idea caught on and became so popular. The idea of a child being somewhat paranormal is, to me, no scarier than an adult being paranormal.
No twist ending!
The first film ends in such a way as to suggest that we the audience are meant to go “aaahhh, they were dead all along.” It was completely unnecessary, it added nothing at all to the film as a whole, and it was never completely unexpected anyway. The idea of Silent Hill is that it’s so completely insane, twisted and nightmarish that it does not need to rely on twist endings to impress.
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I'd love the movie if they gave him a James Sunderland-esque role. That'd be fantastic.
No Children, No PH, more gore and suffering, some drama...let's get off the sympathetic plot for Alessa and try more terror tactics with monsters and some psychological twists a la SH2.