[chico del nacho]

man, if they do do it right, i'm gonna be so happy. it'll be so damn good.

[BurnSide]

Problem is, all movies are these days is action action action, especially when game-to-movies are concerned. Silent Hill isn't an action game. As long as they make it horror, it'll work.

[chico del nacho]

man, even with horror, it's still all action action action these days. it's why they almost never put out scary movies anymore. they try to stuff so much into them.

one thing good with horror movies, that is almost entirely lost, is the mantra "it isn't what you see, it's what you DON'T see." people will often imagine truly horrible things when given the right prodding.

[BurnSide]

Exactly! That's what i love about Silent Hill, it makes you use your own imagination and scare yourself!!

That's what the Resident Evil team realised too. The first time round, dogs jumped out of the windows scaring you with a BOO effect.
Then they remade the game. Going down that hallway, the window shatters slightly as you walk past it, like something slammed into it.. but nothing else happens. It's what DOESN'T happen that scares you.

[odinsgrl]

That's what I'm hoping for. Some gore, but more of just pure creepiness. The idea of, what the hell is going on in this town? Random mentions of the things going on in the town, from newspapers and notes, (like in the game). I guess I would say, the film making would have to kind of be like "Seven". Dark.
There was a movie out, not too long ago, based on a Dean R. Koontz novel, "Phantoms", that someone had told me, reminded them of Silent Hill. The beginning of the movie was ok, but as it progressed it just got worse and worse.

And I agree Burnside, almost all of the game-to movie, movies out there seem to think it takes alot of action, to pull the fans in. But all we want, is "the game" put to film. If they make it right, it won't need much action, the terror should be enough to pull the people in.

[BurnSide]

Silent Hill is actually based on two, as far as i can tell, movies already.

Rosemary's Baby, and Jacobs Ladder. Especially Jacobs Ladder. It's a very creepy movie wher ethe world around a world war 2 veteran keeps distorting and he sees strange monsters. he also has flashbacks of the war where he's in an alternate world full of bodies, gore, rusted metal fences and barbed wire, etc etc. If it's anything like Jacobs Ladder, it's going to be good.

[odinsgrl]

Dang you Burnside!!!

I saw that movie (Jacob's Ladder) when I was young and impressionable! It scared the frikin crap outta me! Not so much the story, of the film, but the imagery stuck in my nightmares for years!

[BurnSide]

That's the one. Think about it, you can definately see where Konami got some ideas eh.

[odinsgrl]

It was more prevelent in Game 2, I think.

The noises in the game really got to me too. The prison. Uggggh. I HATED going down that long hallway! A friend of mine, gave me a copy of the Silent Hill 2, soundtrack, with the music and the ambient noise. Don't listen to THAT before you go to bed.

[odinsgrl]

And I've been having a little argument with my friends bout one of the endings in #2. Did James cheat on his wife when she was in the hospital at all?
I don't know why, but I got that impression.

And if he did....well, he deserved to be there. (hehe)

[BurnSide]

Wow, how did that come up?
I have never seen any evidence throughout the whole game that he ever cheated on his wife while she was in the hospital. James was very faithful, just got more and more misserable with her. He killed her and blocked it from memory. I definately don't think James ever cheated on her.

[odinsgrl]

I guess it was from Maria, that I got that impression. A woman that looked like his wife, but was a little more, "ahem" outgoing?, I guess I should say. I thought maybe she was the "guilt" that he had hidden, and she came into Silent Hill, to remind him of that. I don't know, I come up with some pretty crazy stuff in my head sometimes.

[BurnSide]

Maria never came to Silent Hill.

When you play the special edition of Silent Hill 2, there is a sub story called 'Born from a Wish' in which you play as Maria from her BIRTH to the second she meets James, which is about 15 minutes.

James created Maria.
Well, technically, Silent Hill created Maria from James memories of Mary to test James. She looks exactly like Mary, she's just everything James wanted Mary to be. Sexy, outgoing, fun etc. She's also very ill, and dies several times in the Jame to further punish James for his deeds.

[odinsgrl]

OOOOhhhhh. well, that makes sense.

More sense than what I had thought.

Try to settle this argument- (hehe, another one of my friends and I)

I believe that Silent Hill is the place you go, when you have something that is weighing so heavy on you, from guilt. My friend says that isn't true because the first game had nothing about that.

Now I know that the two games were intentionaly done with different story lines. So, as to not replay itself, in each new game.

[BurnSide]

Well, indeed as we do see in Sielnt Hill 2 people are drawn there to face their inner demons.

James sees demons created by his inner guilt in which he has to overcome. These demons reflect his soul and what he had done.
Eddy sees people laughing at him and bullying him, his inner demons. Which is why he goes beserk at the end and tries to shoot James. James is just another man making fun of Eddy.
Angela was raped by her father. She is her inner demon, as we see in the scene where James fights the demon in the labrynth, which Angela calls Daddy. She is also fighting her inner guilt at killing her own father.
These people were all drawn to Silent Hill by the powers that be to stand trial for their crimes.
Of course there is also Laura. She is in Silent Hill looking for Mary, but sees it as an empty, deserted town. Laura is a child, she has no inner demons to face.

The thing is with the first one is that Silent Hill changed to fit the mind of Alessa, who was burned and tortured by her mother and the cult to get the power out of her that she was birthed with. This cult and the ritual to summon the dark god Samael changed the town. It gave the town life. Harry was not fighting his inner demons, he was fighting ALessas demons. Because of the power of Alessa, her mind was manifest by the town which created demons and hideous scenes of violence and delapidated buildings, the insides of Alessas tortured soul.

And of course, in Silent Hill 3, the main character IS Alessa.



Does this make sense? It's VERy hard to explain.