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RETURN TO SILENT HILL is An Abomination

Elvis The Alien | May 22, 2026



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  1. @zoley88

    May 22, 2026 at 8:19 pm

    We went to the Cinema to watch it and the WHOLE ROOM was in shock how bad it was. Me and my wife played SH2 and we just shocked how it was butchered.

  2. @SGKestrel

    May 22, 2026 at 8:19 pm

    How I knew that I wouldn't be seeing this movie despite being a longtime SH-fan?

    Hideo Kojima tweeted that he had seen it.

    One sentence.

    Told me all I needed to know.

  3. @killerchipz6412

    May 22, 2026 at 8:19 pm

    Maybe he had a really bad translator when he was playing the game… Like when I called this girl I was seeing a butthead with Google translate but it wrote imbecile.. 😂 maybe that's why even though he said he's a fan, the movie is completely different

  4. @itzblitz_cosplays3577

    May 22, 2026 at 8:19 pm

    As a big fan of the Silent Hill franchise, I do gotta say I was pretty disappointed about this movie. It could have been better if they just followed it to a T. It's good for those who don't know Silent Hill at all. But us fans…..erm….not so much.

  5. @endymcgufin4570

    May 22, 2026 at 8:19 pm

    Silent Hill 2. A heartbreaking and depressing tale of guilt, denial and love.
    NAH let's make some generic, poorly written cult mumbo jumbo story and make a couple references. That will do.

  6. @Luphirasoul

    May 22, 2026 at 8:19 pm

    You know, for a town that morphs into a hellish landscape meant to punish and or show a person their deepest regrets and traumas, Silent Hill has some great cell phone reception.

  7. @dogwater666

    May 22, 2026 at 8:19 pm

    Mary's actress is gorgeous + looks like the character + judging by these clips can act well, criminally wasted potential. Laura seems so well casted too, I hope this experience doesn't put her off from acting

  8. @tpoondanceyeah

    May 22, 2026 at 8:19 pm

    It's insane to me how someone calling them a true fan.. Misses every single point from the game. Its not even complicated.

    Laura – Doesn't see any of the scary creepy stuff because she's innocent.
    Angela – Sad/anxiety as fuck
    Eddy – Bullied/Feels james talks down to him
    Maria – Everything that Mary isn't
    And James is utterly nuts, but keeps you guessing till the very end. Grief basically.

    Its simple ffs lol

  9. @iancuflorin6966

    May 22, 2026 at 8:19 pm

    Silent Hill is not a real town, is a state of mind. Everything happens in James' mind, none of the characters, except for James, are real. I can make an entire video explaining what the real mythos behind the structure of the game "Silent Hill 2" is but I am too lazy to do it. There is an entire psychology surrounding this game. You pointed right when you said that Angela is "a manifestation of James' repressed trauma", that is exactly what she represents in the game too. James actually is lying in a hospital bed, drooling on the corner of his mouth, surrounded by doctors fascinated by his case, in fact he is a criminal, a murderer, plagued by dissociative identity disorder, he made up a town where his dead wife is writing from and populated by fictive characters. Well, on short, I can portray the other characters: Maria is an ideal figure of his wife, the perfect wife, playful and mysterious, sexual even; Eddie is James when he was younger, fat and traumatized by his own look, he even killed a dog which mean that James was used to killing from before his wife; Laura is the innocent part of Mary, another side of his wife how James perceive her, feeling guilt for murdering her. Pyramid Head is actually the defense mechanism of James, he kills over and over again Maria for what she represents, he hides the fact that this is the real image he wanted to remember his wife and as a guilt he erase Maria from his mind repeatedly but he comes again to this idealized portrayal until he finally comes to terms with what he really did to his wife, accepting he is a murderer, the final boss of the game is his own wife, James switching the moral compass in his mind, transferring to his wife his own qualities, portraying her as a villain and not as a victim, after beating her in the game, the final act is putting her down like a diseased dog, justifying this way the murder.

  10. @BaggyFTJ

    May 22, 2026 at 8:19 pm

    From what I've gathered from reading interviews, panels etc, the film was butchered in the editing process.

    Filming took place in April 2023, was supposed to come out in early 2025 but because of problems from executive producers, post production stalled.

    Gans even said that there was another hour of footage he cut due to a mandate that would have fleshed things out.

    Thing is, it doesn't matter. You butchered the story and characters for something that isn't Silent Hill 2.

    If he wanted to do an original Silent Hill story, that would have been fine but he specifically went out of his way to adapt SH2 in a way that dilutes and re-contextualises everything in the worst way possible.

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