Christophe Gans loosely adapts Silent Hill 2 (2001) and co-writes screenplay with Sandra Vo-Anh and Will Schneider.
Jeremy Irvine - James Sunderland
Hannah Emily Anderson - Mary Crane
Evie Templeton - Laura
Robert Strange - Pyramid Head
Pearse Egan - Eddie
Templeton also performed motion capture and voiced Laura in Bloober Team's acclaimed 2024 remake.
John Passarella's official novelization is released on 27 January.
Summary
At some point in the past, painter James Sunderland narrowly avoids crashing into a log truck and has a chance meeting with Mary Crane, who misses her bus back to Silent Hill. Romance blossoms, and they eventually move in together.
What a strange choice, as this completely recontextualizes town.
In the present, James returns to his apartment and finds a letter from Mary, begging him to come back to Silent Hill as something's happened.
One big cemetery
At the beginning, a drunk James wakes from a nightmare in a bar and is subsequently thrown into the trash outside.
What a perfect analogy.
It starts promising enough, with nice scenery and iconic camera angles from the game.
Having said that, green screen does all the heavy lifting.
We visit the meat of locations, such as Heavens Night, Brookhaven Hospital, Rosewater Park and Lakeview Hotel.
At Brookhaven (whose grounds is packed with beds and trolleys for some reason), Laura locks James inside Room 318 and he encounters Moth Mary (changed from Lakeview in remake). It's later revealed that James mercy kills Mary with a pillow at her request at 3:18am.
Apart from killing Maria, Pyramid Head's only other contribution is to pummel a spider mannequin to death.
Scraping the barrel, at least he doesn't ride a tricycle, or have a sword fight, a la Silent Hill: Revelation (2012).
Lying Figures, Creepers and Bubble Head Nurses are just here to tick boxes and CG looked better 20 years ago.
Shit, even Abstract Daddy doesn't really do anything.
Angela explodes and James becomes the good guy, removing any psychological trauma.
Nearly every fucking time James enters a new area, we're needlessly subjected to glimpses of his relationship with Mary (they were never married to btw).
James's beard during a flashback is on another level of cheapness, as it's obviously just glued on.
Eddie serves no purpose in one pointless scene, unless you count calling James an asshole and running away of course.
Bach's Air on the G String plays on several occasions, and just made me wish I was watching Seven.
There's no iconic graffiti and forget about Mary saying: "In my restless dreams".
When James is talking to Laura about Mary giving her a doll (actually an undead baby), he blurts out Mary 'Trane'.
HA HA HA!
Mary Angela Laura Crane (born October 12 1991) are fragments of Mary's personality created by James's imagination.
Maria is a doppelganger of Mary.
Her father Joseph has been poisoning Mary since she was a child, causing her terminal illness, tying to The Order and The Brethren from 2006 film.
References
Or rip offs?
Title card rises, like err, Evil Dead Rise (2023).
Candyman (1992)
James: "It's her, it's always been her."
Candyman: "It was always you, Helen."
The Shining (1980)
James: "I'm here, I'll always be here."
Delbert Grady: "I've always been here."
Ending
On the roof of Lakeview, James apologies to Moth Mary and it transforms back into Mary's body.
He places her body in the car and apparently commits suicide by driving into Toluca Lake, but scratch that, as he wakes up at the exact moment they met.
Time travel? Meaning events never happened?
He doesn't drive her to Silent Hill, and they presumably live happily ever after.
What the FUCK?
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