I was actually planning to watch it in the cinema. :) Thankfully I missed the cinema window. I would not have wanted to waste a cinema trip on this.

I am relatively easy going about quality and there are many b-movies that I find very entertaining (I am not only talking about cult classic type productions), but it’s difficult to enjoy Return to Silent Hill. I even liked the second Silent Hill movie (I get the impression the first one is slowly becoming a classic with time); it wasn’t great, but it had its own experience to offer.

The main actor’s expressions and style was off-putting. I couldn’t get rid of the feeling that he was thinking in his mind “what the fuck is this shit?”. The horror elements didn’t work, I didn’t feel any tension. The effects seemed solid from a production quality/budget perspective, but they also felt off, in a way that much smaller indie production don’t.

Their story telling was also subpar. I’ve played the original SH2 and seen the other movies, there is a solid base for a good horror story. This felt more like a bunch of Silent Hill themed scenes stitched together with a dude who looked like he has better thing to do.

I prefer sharing interesting movies that I enjoyed, but Return to Silent Hill was bad enough that I had to write this post.

Probably should have gone in with lower expectations (watched the second one with no expectations and I had a good time).

  • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    15 days ago

    The first movie was okay. Beyond that, the ratings fall, and the first one was not well rated (I think it’s like a 6 on IMDb, which is like below average).

    I’ve played a bit of the original game. I remember I got to a school (or maybe a hospital?) and there’s a scene where the world transitions. You’re in another place all of a sudden, and what was creepy before, with weird stuff lurking around every corner, is now straight up terror, with things actually trying to kill you. That was about as far as I got. Maybe I rented it and had to return it?

    Pyramid Head is an awesome (looking) villain but IIRC he doesn’t show up until the second game?

    I remember Silent Hill trying to be a scarier Resident Evil, or at least that was my impression of the games. And Resident Evil games were usually better. I liked the first three, beat all of them on the PS1 back in the day. If the fourth one was Code Veronica, I played a bit of that, but never finished it. I didn’t play others. I think there was a demo of Village on Xbox I played later.

    I should mention horror doesn’t affect me the way it does other people. My interest in Silent Hill was the story, finding the guy’s kid. With Resident Evil, it was the puzzles. So that creepy shit out the corner of your eye? I’m gonna go look at it. I can’t recall a game ever scaring me.