Silent Hill

one of my earliest childhood memories was my parents watching this movie. i vividly remembered the scene where pyramidhead de-skins anna in front of the church building solely for how traumatizing it was for a 7 year old to even try and process. definitely had it’s part in my developmental process lmao. i spent the past decade+ wondering what that macabre movie was, and it wasn’t until today when i finally got my clarity.  i’ve been getting into classic horror games recently, having just played all 8 (main) instalments of the resident evil franchise. with the absolutely outrageous prices the original silent hill games are going for, I’ve only been able to absorb it’s storyline through other people’s gameplay. needless to say I’ve absolutely fallen in love with silent hill, but I’ve been holding off on watching movie adaptation for so long because video game movie adaptations have never been good (cough cough fnaf). with time to spare, i thought, why not give it a shot? my parents have been hyping it up for so long, what do i gotta lose? absolutely the right call. the moment i saw the shot of the church, i knew in my gut this was the movie i had been hunting all these years. definitely less grotesque than i remembered, but then again, memories do tend to warp the longer time passes. though the movie does not perfectly align itself with the lore of the silent hill video games, and perhaps a little nostalgia bias is speaking in my place, this movie was not at all half bad. some of the shots were very reminiscent of the actual game’s tank control mechanics and fixed cameras, so that was pretty damn cool as well… …and it’s always a pleasure hearing akira yamaoka’s beautiful compositions.