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post #1 of 16
11/4/10 at 2:20pm
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One of the few video game adaptations worth a sequel is getting one.

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post #2 of 16
11/4/10 at 2:25pm
The film was beautiful to look at, but as a piece of narrative cinema it was an absolute slog.
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post #3 of 16
11/4/10 at 2:28pm
Apart from looking great, the original was actually scary, which is something so many horrors fail at. But yeah, the story was shit and sequels don't tend to improve on that.
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post #4 of 16
11/4/10 at 2:30pm
Roger Avary won't be involved? Is he still in jail?
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post #5 of 16
11/4/10 at 2:36pm
Too bad they're skipping right over the only good Silent Hill and are diving straight into the part where it becomes about occult nonsense.
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post #6 of 16
11/4/10 at 2:38pm
Silent Hill 3 is my favourite. Love it.
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post #7 of 16
11/4/10 at 2:39pm
I did not. Full disclosure: I haven't been able to make it through a Silent Hill since the second one, but I generally do try to give the new ones a rent.
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post #8 of 16
11/4/10 at 2:40pm
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Too bad they're skipping right over the only good Silent Hill and are diving straight into the part where it becomes about occult nonsense.
Especially because the end of the original Silent Hill would have segued nicely into an adaptation of the second game. It might have even retroactively given Sean Bean's character a point. Still love the first film, and I like Death Watch/Solomon Kane enough to be vaguely hopeful, but I kind of hoped a follow up film would ditch the occult stuff and just treat Silent Hill as the base for an anthology sort of deal. Just spin numerous stories off the one location, like the second, forth and sixth(?) games did.
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post #9 of 16
11/4/10 at 2:46pm
I appreciate that the first one was, in my opinion, genuinely scary and atmospheric. I had nightmares after the scene in which the dead janitor starts to crawl out of the stall, his limbs terribly out of place.

Interesting choice for the sequel's director. We'll have to see...
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post #10 of 16
11/4/10 at 2:47pm
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Especially because the end of the original Silent Hill would have segued nicely into an adaptation of the second game. It might have even retroactively given Sean Bean's character a point. Still love the first film, and I like Death Watch/Solomon Kane enough to be vaguely hopeful, but I kind of hoped a follow up film would ditch the occult stuff and just treat Silent Hill as the base for an anthology sort of deal. Just spin numerous stories off the one location, like the second, forth and sixth(?) games did.
I agree. Silent Hill is wonderfully unnerving until you know why it exists, and allows for a perfect jumping-off point for all sorts of different ideas.
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post #11 of 16
11/4/10 at 3:13pm
I would like another moment with Pyramid Head stripping a person of their layers.
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post #12 of 16
11/4/10 at 6:21pm
I can almost guarantee we wouldn't be jumping straight to SH3 if Avary wasn't in jail. Too much of the first film leaves that door wide open for that to not have been his plan.

Never heard of the new guy, but if there's still fetus vomiting, fetus eating, and fetus beating at the end, sign me up.
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post #13 of 16
11/4/10 at 6:25pm
Avary's been out of jail for a few months now.
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post #14 of 16
11/4/10 at 6:41pm
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Avary's been out of jail for a few months now.
They started development on this while he was still in, though.
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post #15 of 16
11/4/10 at 7:08pm
They probably went with Heather because it's easier to market a teenage girl than James the wife killer. I agree that 2 has a much more satisfying plot that would translate to film better, but 3 did have some horrifying-as-fuck moments.
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post #16 of 16
11/6/10 at 12:15pm
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The film was beautiful to look at, but as a piece of narrative cinema it was an absolute slog.
I was let down by the trite, conventional explanation for the mystery of Silent Hill in the first film, but it still managed to put the fear of death into my soul. It's remarkably scary in places, and on that alone I think it earned itself a sequel. Horror sequels have a less than stellar reputation for quality, as far as I'm aware, but still, I like the imagery of the SH world (the rust/fog, etc) and I will hold out hope that this one turns out for the best
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