Silent Hill Filmmakers Sign Up for Sequel

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The screenwriter and producer behind the first Silent Hill film adaptation are on board for a follow-up, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Scribe Roger Avary and producer Samuel Hadida are both signed on the sequel project, which will begin shooting sometime next year.

The original film was largely panned by critics, but made over $97 million in worldwide box office sales on a production budget of $50 million, according to BoxOfficeMojo.

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    September 16, 2009 4:45 PM

    Great news - the first, while overall I felt was quite a letdown, still managed to pull off quite a few aspects from the source material effectively. Also, the skin rip scene alone made the movie worth watching.

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      September 16, 2009 4:53 PM

      I enjoyed the movie a lot more the second time I watched it, it could have been a lot better, but to be honest it could have been a lot worse also.

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      September 16, 2009 5:48 PM

      The first one was decent. They did a great job on the atmosphere and the creatures which were faithful to the games. I wanted to see more. It was a little gruesome and gory at times but hey...it's Silent Hill. There's plenty of room for a sequel so bring it on.

      Now that I think about it, what happened to the suspense, horror, adventure games like SH2? The last SH kinda fizzled and burned out. I don't even remember when it came out.

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        September 17, 2009 12:44 AM

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          September 17, 2009 3:36 AM

          I agree that it had mindless torture porn type bullshit, and that the movie broke the atmosphere, but I don't think gore and psychological horror are mutually exclusive. All of the silent hill games were pretty gruesome, in fact that is one of the first words I would use to describe them.

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      September 16, 2009 6:01 PM

      for as many flaws as the movie had, they nailed the tone of Silent Hill pretty well. the ending itself was especially bleak and appropriate.

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        September 16, 2009 6:10 PM

        Personally, I think it's currently the best video game movie ever made. It's not a perfect film by any means, but it gets the job done.

        As for the critics panning it - I've never paid attention to what the critics say about a video game movie because more often than not, they're not the target audience and have little to no experience with the source material.

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          September 16, 2009 8:04 PM

          After watching my DVD copy again 2 weeks ago, I feel the same way. I especially like the awesome music and mafuckin pyramid head

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      September 17, 2009 1:25 AM

      The first half of the film is pretty close to perfect. Pyramid Head's inclusion was a bit of a fan-wank, though.

      I have my doubts about this without Gans directing and Avary still writing the script.

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