Nukes and Knives™: Silent Hill

The odyssey continues.

Music

Cybil Bennett is an officer from Brahms.
Town may be a nod to Johannes Brahms.

Akira Yamaoka's opening of iconic theme was inspired by Portishead's Sour Times.
Even though track appears on Dummy, they decided to crop and add a splash of colour to eponymously-titled follow up.

Strange.

Sonic Youth members Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo and Kim Gordon became teachers.

What happened to drummer Steve Shelley?

Err.

After defeating Split Head, we find K. Gordon key.

The top of sheet music for "A Tale of Birds Without a Voice" displays D'ont trust anyone over thirty by Moonriders.

Was 'don't' misspelled on purpose?

(Shrugs shoulders).

Whatever, Don't Trust Anyone Over 30 debuted on 1986 album Don't Trust Over Thirty.

Title could have originated from 'Don't trust anyone over thirty', a phrase coined by Jack Weinberg in 1964 about the Free Speech Movement.

Famous paintings

House vs Christina's World - Andrew Wyeth

Hanging cage vs Three Studies of Lucian Freud - Francis Bacon

The Last Judgment - Michelangelo

Randomly.

Madonna of the Goldfinch - Raphael

What's this?

The light to the future

Until now, female was original, but my eagle eye reveals a dark secret.

The Entombment of Christ - Caravaggio
Unscrupulous bastards simply 'edited' Mary of Clopas.

I said goddamn.

Miscellany

Magazine cover in the Orridge Control Room has a photograph of Anna Nicole Smith advertising Guess Jeans in 1992 and nearby is a poster of the Exposition Universelle.

Cheryl vs Diane - Trainspotting

UFO ending vs Burning Flesh - Mars Attacks! trading card 19

Stephen King

The Mist

Someday, someone may experience these bizarre events.
Hopefully, they will find my notes useful.

Save point blurb is very similar to David's 'evidence' left at a HoJo restaurant.

"I am going to leave these pages on the counter and perhaps someday someone will find them and read them."

Also.

The Thing

MacReady: "I'm gonna hide this tape when I'm finished. If none of us make it, at least there'll be some kind of record."

Hmmm.

Air Screamer

Ptero-buzzard is described thusly.

"Its red eyes glittered in its triangular head, which was slightly cocked to one side. A heavy, hooked beak opened and closed rapaciously. It looked a bit like the paintings of pterodactyls you may have seen in the dinosaur books, more like something out of a lunatic's nightmare."

Study, Dammit!! famously appeared in the Maine Campus in 1970.

Determined to literally go out with a bang, King, and photographer Frank Kadi, headed out to the woods with an (unloaded?) shotgun to 'shoot' capstone cover for their last Finals week.

Medieval Madness was a real pinball machine released by Williams in 1997.

Despite this.

Malakai playing Medusa in Children of the Corn.

A few film posters.

Pet Semetary

Carrie

Lisa (consumed by evil) vs Carrie (snapped)

Circumstances are obviously different, but I've got a bloody point.

Sink

The Shining

Redrum

The Langoliers

Sound of titular monsters gets louder on approach.

Rather like:

Huh? Radio? What's going on with that radio?

Dean Koontz

The Door to December

Book was originally released in 1985 under pseudonym Richard Paige.

The Monster Lurks
Chapter 3: "Manifestation of Delusions"
...Poltergeists are among these.
Negative emotions, like fear,

Comparable to:

"A sudden, inexplicable chill."

"Could be," Uhlander said. "Perhaps an indication of a rapid accumulation of occult energies. Such a phenomenon is associated with the poltergeist, for instance."

Dahlia's plan of using Alessa to birth God smacks of what Dylan put Melanie McCaffrey through, as he subjected his own child to a series of terrifying experiments combining science and the occult.

Phantoms

1983 novel

Jenny and Lisa find themselves in Snowfield, where everyone is dead in deserted ghost town.

Brookhart's sells beer, wine, liquor, tobacco, magazines, newspapers and books.

Nothing immediately sinister, but...

Food & Liquor sells beer, wine, soft drinks and snacks.

Store cannot be explored, but Eight can.

Like Brookhart's, I'm describing 7-Eleven wannabe as a cluttered place, but curiously warm and pleasing.

So Food & Liquor and Eight = Brookhart's.

Why not?

For shits and giggles, other businesses in Snowfield include Ye Olde Towne Tavern, Big Nickle Variety Shop, Patterson's Ice Cream Parlour and Mario's Pizza.

At one point.

Bong! Bong!

"A church bell," Lisa said.

"The Catholic church, west on Vail."

"Someone has to pull a rope to ring a bell," Lisa said. "Or push a button to set off a siren. So there must be someone else here besides us."

As Harry is leaving Midwich, he remarks: