Silent Hill The Movie

[Drewbacca]

The story doesn't sound like it'll be any better. I'm not too familiar with the Silent Hill story arch, but what is this shit about alternate dimensions? And it's going the route of every horror flick with the cliched child, innocence imagery. We'll see, but it'll most likely end up at Resident Evil.

[mollipen]

Well, there are a few schools of though on what exactly Silent Hill is. One theory is that the Silent Hill we see in the games is an "alternate dimension" Silent Hill, and that Silent Hill also exists as a fully normal town where people are going about their lives.

One thing that supports this idea is Silent Hill 4 - for Henry and a few others, some pretty messed up things are going on. But to everybody else, it is busines as usual. And when somebody dies in the "evil" dimension, their bodies are found in the regular world, and to the people who find their bodies, the world around said body isn't freaked-out or anything.

There are more, non-SH4 clues that support this way of thinking. For example, Laura in SH2. It seems that, for her, the town isn't all messed up the way James and others see it. Maybe for her, the town is normal, but for some reason she can see and interact with the others who are in the alternate town. Or, maybe she got pulled in because of her connection to James, but in the alternate town there are even more layers of "alternates," each of which depends on who the person is and what their "crimes" are. (Which would explain why everything is always burning for Angela.)

I'm not saying that I totally buy into the idea, but at the same time, it explains why certain signs of life are apperant in the town.

[MrWhitefolks]

it was explained in a VERY indepth faq on gamefaqs about how SH the town itself pulls people to it's "alt dimension" so they can deal with their subconcious(and sometimes, past sins).

due to laura(sh2) being completely innocent, she sees nothing James and the rest run into during the game, and is appears as a connection between Mary(James' dead wife who she apparently knew at the hospital where Mary was ill) and James due to James having all of these deep rooted emotional problems(some say Laura was a figment of his subconcious trying to deal with how his wife died, other's think that Laura was actually LIVING in Silent Hill, but was just too innocent to be harmed or involved in any of the demonic happenings)

[Drewbacca]

Oh well that doesn't sound cheesy. In alternate dimensions I'm getting a picture of the lady driving through a big electric hole and suddenly ending up in a strange down. If they do it so that she just enters heavy fog and we never truly see the boundaries of the dimensions then it may be great.

[Eirikur]

Oh well that doesn't sound cheesy. In alternate dimensions I'm getting a picture of the lady driving through a big electric hole and suddenly ending up in a strange down. If they do it so that she just enters heavy fog and we never truly see the boundaries of the dimensions then it may be great.

Well it does say portal, but it better just be the fog like in the games. If a portal literally opens up on the road, I'll cry.

[MrWhitefolks]

if a portal opens up in the road, im walking out of the fucking theatre.

[mollipen]

If this is legit, it gives me hope that they are making the logo feel authentic.

[voltz]

I like how it says "a Christophe Gans film" under the title

[Despair]

So? It show's director's name. What's wrong with that?

[Mzo]

Sounds like a storyline that isn't completely ass-backwards and is faithful to the source material.

I don't want video game movies to be retelling of games I've played, so this sounds pretty good to me.

I still need to play through SH 2-4. I think I own 2 and 3.