Silent Hill movie thread
 

You know the drill.

A definitive movie thread dedicated to discussing said film pre and post viewage. Might I say I am ecstatic and anyone else who isn't sucks anus.

I've never played the game. I've glanced at it, but I'm too chicken to rent it. I MAY see it, but I might not.

I normally don't like horror films but I must say, based only on the trailer, that it looks far more intelligent and creepy than any of the many pathetic excuses for horror films that have been released recently.

Some imagey goodness...
http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/s...ter_miners.jpg
The Miners.

http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/s...redpyramid.jpg
My main nigga, Pyramid Head (or 'The Red Pyramid' as he is aptly named on the official site).

http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/s..._thenurses.jpg
Put a paper bag over those faces of theirs and they're almost do-able. Almost.

http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/s...egraychild.jpg
The Grey Child. Now that's some disturbing shiznit.

http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/s...ter_dahlia.jpg
Dahlia.

http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/s...hejanitor2.jpg
The Janitor.

So far no pictures that look anything like Abstract Daddies, Mannequins, etc., but I'm hoping they don't leave them out.

I'm excitied. I have only played it like once and I got the shit scared out of me. But Silent hill is a very creative game, and I feel they know what they're doing with this movie.

Yeah, I have warm fuzzies all over.

The nurses look especially well done. Kudos to Silent Hill!

I hope they include Valtiel though.

The trailer is annoyingly unrevealing of course, so I couldn't tell you.

Huh, well you really can't tell anything form Silent Hill.

Do you have the cast members? WHO IS PLAYING PYRAMID HEAD?

Johnny Depp.

Actually, whoever it is is uncredited. Ironically, I've never heard of any of the people who are credited.

I was excited at first about it, as I enjoyed watching Luke play the games. But blarg, it's like... For everything good thing heard about it, there's something bad also to be heard.

I read in an interview of some sort that the only main male character was just sort of thrown in. The movie's production was denied because basically all the characters were female. Pretty ridiculous.

The trailer and most images look pretty neat though... The atmosphere of filth seems perfect.

Well, they always tack on a balancing character to retool films. I mean consider Beetlejuice, it was Winona Ryder + Geena Davis + Catherine O' Hara vs. a flannel-clad Alec Balwin. Luckily Betelgeuse balanced it out, he easily contains enough testoserone to make up for two people.

That's not the same at all. I expect that all the main characters in Betelgeuse to have been originally planned to be in the movie as they all take on important roles in the plot.

This male character in Silent Hill was just thrown in.

Adam was actually a tacked on role. In the original script; Barbera lived alone in the large house because her husband had died. She bit it in a car wreck on her way to the airport (taking a vacation to clear her mind as suggested by her nudgey landlord), and spent her time searching for him in death. Eventually they were reunited during the seance scene. Yadda Yadda. Having Alec Baldwin play the role was just a bonus.

And here's a yummy fun fact kids: Originally the main character of Silent Hill was male! Holy amazing SHIT, batman!

Don't they count Pyramid Head as a male? No need to tack on bit parts when PH is one the scene. He can't be anything but male, and those of you who've played the game would know why.

I'll see it.

Unless Tarantino endorses it. Then I'll proudly boycott it whilst defecating on my fiance's copy of Reservior dogs.

agreed, I saw "Hostel" which was presented by him and it was totaly lame, only some nude chicks and explicit torture, one good concept but no decent story...
my advise don't pay to see that film.

never played the Silent Hill games, but I think I'll see that film anyway, it looks realy good. I absolutly love the atmosphere in those pictures.

Hostel was great compared to that Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez endorsed turd, "Wolf Creek".

To be sympathetic, the concepts of some of these films had potential, but they never managed to work with that.

The only Tarantino endorsed film I enjoyed was Sin City, but I can't watch it more than maybe once a year.

Dubble post (OYG)

Here are some screencaps for those of you who can't get a good gist of the trailer, and for the sorry sods out there who haven't seen it yet.

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d2...l/Monster2.jpg
One of the creatures not shown in the character gallery, not nearly enough of it is shown for me to make an assumption as to what the hell it is.

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d2...ll/Monster.jpg
The Grey Children (or childs). You can see their distorted baby faces on the sides of their head.

http://www.inhousemedia.net/mf/phlovesyou.jpg
PH, ready to party.

http://www.inhousemedia.net/mf/monster3.jpg
The nurses looking a bit drunk.

Yes! My favorite monster! But where are their little knives? Or am I getting them confused with some other monster?

Like I said, the commercial is painfully unrevealing. It took me 3 or 4 tries to get these screencaps, because each picture is on the screen for maybe a quarter of a bloody second.

You may be confusing them with the Scrapers.

Yes. It, along with all the other Saw type pieces of shit, are what I call 'gore porn'. Talk about ****ing us as a race even further.

Them grey chaps are most awesomeness. Perhaps I will see it now.

Heh, I will most definately see this movie. I mean, Silent Hill 2 was the best. Silent Hill 4 was a bit dissapointing...

I have to say, Saw did a petty good job at filling a whole whale tank of crap in a one hour binge, I can't wait to see how Scary Movie 4 burns it.

*Twitch*
 

Holy shiatz, this movie is gonna rule.

I'm going the first day dressed as James Sunderland (SH2). Pyramid Head looks [TeenGirlSquad]SO GOOD![/TeenGirlSquad]

I can't wait! The monsters look great; especially the Gray Children!
Are they like the Demon Children (Mumblers) from the first game?

I believe the first one is a Lying Figure/Patient.

They made Dahlia look like a cave woman....

It looks very well, I like the atmosphere and style, and froms the looks of it I think it captured the whole concept of Silent Hill. I've only played a bit of Silent Hill, quite creepy. And I love the creepy mysterious look in those images.

what isn't good in Saw... just wondering why you guys didn't like it?

Saw II was okay. I liked the second one just because they made a subtle stab at emo kids (no pun intended). The first one bored the shit out of me and that's especially hard when I have nothing in my bowels.
For the love of Jesus and dead puppies, we need to commit silky smooth genocide of the kids and directors who endorse those types of films. Whether it's picking up a Saw shirt at your local Snot Topic, or just pounding your flounder to acheive a gore-gasm, the likes of em need to be painfully erraticated.

I have faith that Silent Hill will pull through for me and that I can hold my wang in peace (God bless you, Pee Wee Herman). But they've managed to screw up a good deal of films this and last year. Thing Thong was on my okay list, they probably could have condensed it into 2 hours at most, my eyes were practically humping the graphics though. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, well, Tim Burton (and Danny Elfman respectively) is really losing his touch. Then of course we have The Fog remake, and then the Hills Have Eyes remake - both of which are just... wrong.

Though technically the Silent Hill movie isn't a remake, I'm sure if you got the right director - *cough* UWE BOLL *cough* - that they could fuck it up all the same.

PS: Leto, if you don't get on Xbox Live this weekend, I will rape you and Bambi with a shotgun in that order.

excellent picture
I was wondering, is there some background story for pyramid head or don't we know anything about him?

*potential spoilers*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_Head

Now thats what I call a knife.

You know what they say; a man's endowment is only as big as the knife he carries.

Actually I just made that up. *runs off to buy a HUGE knife*

I'm looking forward to the movie [although we won't get it here in Australia until later as is usual for these things]. It looks really awesome from the trailers and images that I've seen.

Although I do hope that they keep the psychological horror aspect that is so much part of the game. I don't mind a bit of blood and gore, but as long as they don't use it as their primary focus like so many horror films do. There is so much potential with a SH film, so I just would hate to see it screwed up.

I was initially surprised to see the inclusion of Pyramid Head, especailly with the film "based" primarily around SH1 ... because of his connection to James in SH2, it was always indicated that he wouldn't really be in any other games for that reason. I've heard of him referred to as James' personal demon. But I think that there would be too much demand from fans to see Pyramid Head in there as he's one of those bad guy characters that just have to be there. Kind of like if Sephiroth wasn't in AC. *shuts up now*

Abe Babe...

My thoughts run along those lines too. P-Head held symbolism for James' sexual mischievousness or frustration, so to speak. I certainly couldn't see that working out well for a connection to the mother searching for her daughter in the movie. So far, he sounds like just the main enemy with no significant reasoning behind why he is who he is in the movie. But oh well, not everything has to have significant meaning; I'm happy that he's in it.

Even a glorious story like SH needs to be a bit redesigned to make a movie.
And though the initial story is loosely based on the original Silent Hill, I am doubting they'll shoot for a sequel, so they will likely mix in story/character elements from all of the games (or maybe just 1 and 2, even still).
Pyramid Head IS Silent Hill, just like Disney IS America. When you see him, you think SILENT HILL. It's like when you see Spongebob you think Nickelodeon (and you also think "Lord I want to kill that squishy, yellow sonofabitch). AND, a Silent Hill movie without PH just isn't a Silent Hill movie, IMO.
Ultimately, I hope they don't puree the plot. SH2 could be played independently, which gives filmmakers and advantage, and combining the stories wouldn't be a chore.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UZZSRMG5
This brilliant 'Making of Silent Hill' movie was graciously provided by our own Marchello (Oddish). Praise him.
There are no real spoilers in it, I checked. There are quite a few things that haven't been revealed in the trailers though, and this video does sacrifice a few of the 'surprise' elements of the movie. Still worth a watch before or after you've seen the actual film.

Pyramid Head appears in this numerous times, and both the way he looks and the sound he makes are 5-alarm awesome. He sounds like a demonic didjeridoo.

Pyramid Head is a symbolic punisher/executioner; he has no specific ties to any individual characters. Walter Sullivan, an infamous serial killer in the Silent Hill series, supposedly had his own Pyramid Head to deal with, although I'm pretty sure this fact has been neither confirmed or denied by any of Silent Hill's creators.

James killed his wife, and Pyramid Head was manifested as punishment. Many of the monsters in SH2 were representational of James's sexual frustration, but these emotions were only channeled through Pyramid Head in the form of his raping other monsters. PH didn't actually represent James's frustration; rather, he was only influenced by James's hidden feelings.

Hypothetically, if the main character of the Silent Hill movie had something to feel extremely guilty about, specifically about her daughter, then it would make perfect sense to have PH in the movie. "He" is a part of whoever is feeling guilt. He's the punishment that we put ourselves through whenever we feel unbearably guilty over something.

[/end geek]

Ah, yes, and float like a leaf on the river of life, grasshoppah.

The movie comes out on the 21st to those of you who don't know. Still a while to go by nerdling standards and I'm gunna go all Cosplay PH ZOMG!

I wonder if the ushers would complain of a naked man in a butcher's smock and a pointy hat. Speaking of, Luke, do you still have your Pyramid Helmet from 04? What was it made of?

Yeah. Very heavy card stock paper and duct tape (on the inside).

Opening night, I should just stand outside the theater with the helmet on. Normal clothes. Just the helmet. I wouldn't even go in the theater. I would just stand outside, basking in the bizarre faces that the staff would make at me. If they ask me to leave, I'll just punch them in the kidneys and run.