[squarejawhero]

Click and be damned.

Creepy as ****, this teaser actually captures the spirit of the games directly. Can't wait.

I can't wait to enter the theatre...

[seebaruk]

Wow, it's just like watching a trailer for one of the games. That looks suitably f*cked up, can't wait for it to come out. Twitching zombie nurses, yayyy!!

[Henke]

Yes yes yes! Thanks squarejawhero for the link.

[samIamsad]

AEEEEEEIIIIIAAAAAAAAAAEEEEEEEEE!! In fog, no one can hear you scream.

[natalia]

Sooo creepy!

[Intrepid Homoludens]

Originally Posted by natalia

Sooo creepy!

Does it make you cringe? Make you look over your shoulders in the darkness of your room? Will it give you nightmares?

Originally Posted by squaresie

Click and be damned.

It's.....perfect. Thoroughly indistinguishable from the spirit of the games - that's a very, very good thing. If anyone else here has played Silent Hill 3 you'll recognize that music in that teaser trailer.

Those high heeled feet and dragging bare legs can only mean two things, at least: Zombie Nurses and the straightjacket zombies (forgot what they're actually called)!

Let's hope it's truly a good film adaptation. I hope they really push the psychological f#&king with your mind to the edge. I've made up my mind to replay Silent Hill 3 when I get my new notebook.

[Intrepid Homoludens]

Ooh, found some new screens (well new to me, at least)...

[natalia]

Originally Posted by Intrepid Homoludens

Does it make you cringe? Make you look over your shoulders in the darkness of your room? Will it give you nightmares?

You are evil trepsie! I started both Silent Hill 3 and 4 but never finished (the third one because it was on the PC and I couldn't get the hang of the controls and the 4th one because, well I'm not sure why). I played enough of them to know that I will never try playing them again in my condo alone. Even when my sweetie's here I can barely get through a couple of scenes of Resident Evil 4 (why yes, yes I am playing about a zillion games at once).

[squarejawhero]

Originally Posted by Intrepid Homoludens

Ooh, found some new screens (well new to me, at least)...

There's a few stills at IGN I haven't seen. That door looks vile.

The production stills probably won't chime with the look of the film, what with all the post processing effects they'll probably add.

[seebaruk]

Gahh, those screenshots are just teasing, with glimpses of people looking horrified but not showing what they're horrified at. Some of those corridors etc. look like they're straight out the games, I'm starting to get pretty hopeful about it being a decent conversion.

[Intrepid Homoludens]

Originally Posted by natalia

You are evil trepsie! I started both Silent Hill 3 and 4 but never finished (the third one because it was on the PC and I couldn't get the hang of the controls and the 4th one because, well I'm not sure why). I played enough of them to know that I will never try playing them again in my condo alone. Even when my sweetie's here I can barely get through a couple of scenes of Resident Evil 4 (why yes, yes I am playing about a zillion games at once).

I remember the very first time I played the original Silent Hill. It was around Christmastime in 1999 and I had just bought a Playstation. I had wanted a racing game and something else, something different (I had only played a few PC games before that). I saw Silent Hill shelved with many other titles at Toys R Us in downtown Chicago and it looked really interesting - a scary horrorfest about a young single father trying to find his lost daughter in a small town.

I played it alone, at night, in the dark, with headphones, and I thought, Wow, this is what I want. This is what I need. This is what virtual reality should be all about. And then one of the dishes in the sink shifted and I jumped up. It took me a couple days to finally have the nerve to enter Alchemilla hospital, after my nephew (who had played some of it) told me that the f#&ked up, steel pipe wielding nurses with the moving red humps on their backs practically run after you while moaning and groaning. But he didn't tell me about the skinless babies with the butcher knives at Midwich Elementary School.

[Kolzig]

I don't know anything about Silent Hill, but that teaser looks nice.
I hope Sean Bean has a good role in it.

[samIamsad]

Originally Posted by Intrepid Homoludens

But he didn't tell me about the skinless babies with the butcher knives at Midwich Elementary School.

They cut them from the German version.

[natalia]

Originally Posted by Intrepid Homoludens

It took me a couple days to finally have the nerve to enter Alchemilla hospital, after my nephew (who had played some of it) told me that the f#&ked up, steel pipe wielding nurses with the moving red humps on their backs practically run after you while moaning and groaning. But he didn't tell me about the skinless babies with the butcher knives at Midwich Elementary School.

Ackkkk *runs screaming down the hall*

Seriously, I get so scared when I play these games - my heart starts racing, my palms sweat, and I have to put the game down for a bit to get it together. But I can't stop playing, I always keep coming back like a monkey on crack . I'll have to finish my two Silent Hill games (once I'm done with the RE4 game) -- perfect for these claustrophobic, dark and wintery days.

[Intrepid Homoludens]

Originally Posted by samIamsad

They cut them from the German version.

Surely they replaced them with something else? Didn't the U.K. version have them look like midget teddy bears? I had read that somewhere.

Originally Posted by natsie

Seriously, I get so scared when I play these games - my heart starts racing, my palms sweat, and I have to put the game down for a bit to get it together. But I can't stop playing, I always keep coming back like a monkey on crack . I'll have to finish my two Silent Hill games (once I'm done with the RE4 game) -- perfect for these claustrophobic, dark and wintery days.

A monkey on crack shrieking with sweaty palms while playing a game in the dark. How disturbing.

[seebaruk]

Originally Posted by Intrepid Homoludens

Surely they replaced them with something else? Didn't the U.K. version have them look like midget teddy bears? I had read that somewhere.

Yep, in the version I played they were scruffy teddy bears with knives for fingers. Still f*cking scary at times!

[Intrepid Homoludens]

The most unsettling (terrifying?) thing about them was the fact that you can hear them moaning before you actually see them. And when you're unlucky enough to be close enough and they lunge at you, their laughter as they stab your legs is almost bloodcurdling.

[Starflux]

Being the scaredypants I am I was always way too afraid to play Silent Hill, but I DID manage to watch my friend play through Silent Hill 3 in its entirety, which I absolutely LOVED. I'm sure I'll never play Silent Hill because it freaks me out, but watching it already brings such immense, profound pleasure, fear and immersion that I couldn't be happier with it. There's something in the franchise that does something with me... the atmosphere, the idea that they never explain what is happening. At one point during Silent Hill 3, the female protagonist laments to one of ambiguous side-characters about all these monsters, to which he answers:

,,You see them as monsters?"

(and this is giving me goosebumps again at the moment) And without even implying anything, the immensely creepy notion arises that Silent Hill could just be the imagination of a very sick person, that the enemies are really just people that you simply see as monsters. He denies it immediately and says it's a joke, but both my friend and I were completely startled and looked at each other going: 'wow'. It's worthy entertainment.

Alright, going to the point I was trying to make when starting this post: What Trep says about the sounds is one of the things that I think should absolutely be in any Silent Hill movie: Grotesque soundeffects accompanying the monsters. A Silent Hill staple is its use of frightening sounds that run way before you have any visual confirmation of the monster approaching. Horrible, deformed sounds such as metallic breathing, rythmic sawing, distorted radio-noise. Frightening as hell.

The second thing that should be in the movie is that other Silent Hill staple: messed-up hairdo's. I absolutely love how all the characters have asymmetrical hair that's all messy and dirty. You see loose bangles dangling, hair that's flopping over ears or a mishmash of unkempt hair. It brings such realism to the game and makes the characters very intruiging and attractive. We can't have anything else than raw, red-eyed beauty in Silent Hill.

[Karmillo]

This movie looks great, i hope it does well enough to ensure us a movie adaption of SH2

That would be awesome

[Once A Villain]

Yeah, I must say... They should have made this a version of Silent Hill 2, not 1. 2 can stand on its own as a strong piece of storytelling better than 1 can. However, I will admit that the trailer gives me a shred of hope about this release. I had previously been completely underwhelmed because I don't care for the director and those super clean, digital looking still shots at websites looked HORRIBLE.