More American Film Market news from STYD– Silent Hill will be getting a sequel called Revelations and it will be directed by Michael J. Bassett.
The director is responsible for Death Watch as well as Solomon Kane, which apparently found some success on the film festival tour and Alex seemed to enjoy, with some grievances. It is a film about an ass-kicking Puritan, so he’s got a knack for striking concepts. Silent Hill: Revelations will focus on Heather Mason from Silent Hill 3. The film has her exploring the multi-dimensional town looking for her missing father, and the answers to the strange nightmares that have plagued her as she approaches her 18th birthday. The game has her discovering a cult within Silent Hill that has nefarious god-birthin’ plans, but how closely the continuity will connect with the source material or the first film’s plot is unclear.
Silent Hill is an underrated film, that comes close to being the best of the generally awful video game adaptations. The film never quite works in a way that makes it great, and the ending is rife with problems, but tonally it fires on all cylinders. The texture and quality of the cinematography, effective atmosphere, and genuinely frightening use of iconic characters like Pyramid Head made it a very worthwhile experience. I also think it managed to find the best middle ground between the structures of a film and a game. I enjoyed her exploring the environment in a way that made sense for a horror movie, but also recalled the experience of the game, object discovery and all. Perhaps this is because the games have always tried to meet cinema in the middle anyway, I couldn’t say.
The film is being “geared” for 3D, but I don’t know what the fuck that means. It suggests a post-conversion, since it’s easy to say “shot in 3D,” but much harder to quickly phrase “well, we want to make 3D cash but don’t want to deal with shooting it that way, so we’ll convert it later and say that we composed and conceived of the film specifically for 3D framing.” I guess we’ll find out for sure when more details emerge.
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I also enjoyed Silent Hill. Best video game adaptation on film yet. I believe production will be filming the sequel in 3D as opposed to post-convert, which should be the standard if you wish to pursue 3D. I personally hate the 3D craze, but if you're going to do something, don't do it half-ass (i.e. post-convert).
The first wasn't awful, for the first half or so. I don't get people's fascination with the Heather character from "SH3", where you have the best entry in the series ("SH2") waiting to be explored. Christ, even "SH4: The Room") is better and way more interesting a game than "SH3".
Psst. That review is by Devin. Anyway, I hope they rock the shit out of the creepy rabbit suit.
The cult in Silent Hill was a lazy cop-out, considering the wealth of truly creepy material available from the games, especially the fantastic second Silent Hill. The second Silent Hill should be delved into, handled properly, it could be a great, terrifying film.
I am upset that they are not continuing from the first film. The ending can easily be continued since Silent Hill 2 basically had what would next followed.
I think it's safe to assume that the second Silent Hill game was generally the most loved. With such a deep, twisted main character, I think a movie about the second (when properly handled) would be successful. People drink up those psychological horror films.
Fact: if you edit out all the scenes in Silent Hill with Sean Bean in them, you get a much, much better film, whilst conveniently shaving about 20 minutes off the runtime.
Say, whatever happened to that Solomon Kane flick? Did I totally miss it?
Visually, the movie worked. But the ending fucking blew. The worst part was when Avery or whoever rewrote this piece of shit script dumped the back-story into a 10 minute soliloquy performed by the cult leader. It ground the movie to a halt. The audience, not exactly film geeks, just a bunch of dumb-ass teens, squirmed in their seats and razzed the screen. Simply terrible.
You're all on crack. Silent Hill looked beautiful, but every other aspect of the film was unmitigated garbage. It balanced it out to the degree that it was merely a shitty film, instead of The Happening.
@8 – yeah it's still waiting for an american distributer. you'd think someone wou;d've snatched it up, as its been well over a year now
firsat one was nice but i hope this get more close to the silent hill 3 history i think 1 and 3 are the best releases of the silent hill saga
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