Andy, dude! The Silent Hill move was AAAAAWESOME!
I die a little inside every time I see someone say this. The Silent Hill movie was about as faithful to the games as an abusive husband.
1. First of all, I'm going to play the PH card. Pyramid Head's character was ruined by changing it from an "inner demon rapist" to some random brutal killer from Hell. I don't care who you are, no matter how gruesomely you kill someone, it can never be as terrifying as an equally gruesome rape, and
that was why the real Pyramid Head was such a scary character. Not to mention Pyramid Head didn't even belong in the movie anyway.
2. Silent Hill is supposed to follow
one person who interacts with only a
handful of other characters who are relevant to the main characters problems with, I'm going to quote Yahtzee on this one, the town being the real monster, playing with everyone. The movie blew this off too, and opted to rely exclusively on the progression of the cult. There was nothing interesting about the main characters. They had no dark past, and outside of her daughter being the center of the cult, there was no reason for them to be there at all. The Silent Hill cult was not what made the games great, it was the development of an interesting character. Fuck the cult, fuck the rituals, I was expecting the development of a character with actual depth.
3. The Silent Hill games are notoriously short. A movie should have been able to pull off a complete story.
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