Silent Hill 4: The Room - Drops of Shame

The final entry developed by Team Silent was released in 2004, but set in 2001.

Summary

It was two years ago (so 1999) that Henry Townshend moved into Room 302 of South Ashfield Heights, an apartment building in the medium-sized city of Ashfield. Henry was happy and enjoying his new life.

But five days ago, something strange happened. He began having a recurring dream each night.

One other thing...

He couldn't leave Room 302...

Likeness

Henry Townshend vs Peter Krause

Cynthia Velasquez vs Alyssa Miller

Specifically.

Walter Sullivan vs Louis (Brad Pitt) - Interview with the Vampire

Or possibly Kurt Cobain?

This is nailed on though.

Jasper Gein¹ vs Spud (Ewan Bremner) - Trainspotting

¹Surname is surely a nod to prolific graverobber and suspected serial killer Ed Gein.

Netflix series Monster: The Ed Gein Story drops on 3 October.

Film references

Chief designer Masashi Tsuboyama has confirmed plot was inspired by Ryu Murakami's bizarre 1980 novel Coin Locker Babies.

The Cell (2000), ntbcw Stephen King's Cell and/or film adaptation of same name, depicts a realm inside the mind of serial killer Carl Stargher, much like how Henry travels to Walter's Otherworlds.

Hellraiser

Hooks

Event Horizon

Gravity Drive

The Changeling

Wheelchairs

Ring

Ghost vs Sadako

Hole vs well

Finally.

Henry's view from apartment block.

Rather like:

Rear Window

However, considering the influence David Lynch had on series, I'd suggest this is more likely.

Blue Velvet

Backing shit up.

Lynch Street Line Coin

(Ahem).

Homages? 

Paranormal VHS vs chained door

Evil Dead Rise vs peephole

Or rip offs?

Miscellany

Jasper tee depicts the Incubus, the true end boss from original game.

Also, Haures written below, another word for the Flauros aka Cage of Piece.

Richard Braintree's tie has the detail of Leonardo da Vinci's Virgin of the Rocks.  

Sniffer dogs

Long tongues initially trail on the floor, but become erect when feeding, like a female mosquito.

And yeah, males do not suck blood.  Instead, proboscis is used to feed on fruit juices and flower nectar.

While this is a bit out there, enemy may have been based on Frank Belknap Long Jr.'s short story the Hounds of Tindalos, first published in the March 1929 issue of Weird Tales.

Title card
"He was starkly nude, and twisted and turn."

Before it was incorporated into the Cthulu Mythos, creatures are said to have "long, hollow tongues or proboscises to drain victims' body fluids". 

I was going to save this for another time, but decided to go all out.

The Apartment (2023)

Unrelated to 1960 and 1996 films of same name (when title is translated into English), writer-director Michael Kovich Jr makes his debut.

We begin with a quote from Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy.

"Love is the seed of every virtue, and of every act worthy of punishment."

Purgatory, Canto XVIII

Summary

A man (Bruno Sosa) wakes up in his apartment with no memory and finds his door covered with chains and padlocks.  He is soon haunted by his ex-girlfriend (Andrea Quattrocchi) and forced to confront his dark past.

Intriguing.

But what follows is flagrant plagiarism.

Poster vs cover art

Door vs Room 302

Envelope underneath door

He vs Henry

Yeah, live-action equivalent keeps waking up after a dream.

Concierge and Neighbor vs Eileen and Richard

In a bizarre twist, story becomes unique.

It's revealed that He raped and killed Her when she tried to leave.

He then pulled a gun on himself.

For the benefit of audience, lovely lady tells us he's done this 16 times.

Every time geezer wakes up, loop restarts.

For reasons unexplained, man spontaneously combusts.

Obscurity was never released outside of Paraguay and I'd suggest Konami are still blissfully unaware of film's existence.