Return to Silent Hill, a live-action movie adaptation of Konami’s beloved Silent Hill 2, hits theaters later this week. Early opinions for the horror flick are as scary as any monster from the video games.
First introduced in 2022, Return to Silent Hill releases on January 23. It isn’t linked to the previous two Silent Hill films, despite the fact that it was directed by the primary movie’s Christophe Gans, and is as a substitute a unfastened adaptation of the PS2-era survival horror basic Silent Hill 2. Advertising for this movie has been minimal to say the least, partially as a result of it appears the executives concerned realized it wasn’t nice again when it wrapped filming in 2023, and the film is just seeing the sunshine of day after that latest Silent Hill 2 remake did so nicely. However after the delay and the shortage of promoting, maybe it is a excellent horror movie? Nope. Doesn’t seem to be it.
As of January 21, there are 15 reviews for Return to Silent Hill on critic aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. And the brand new film has an abysmal seven p.c Tomatometer rating. For these not conversant in Rotten Tomatoes, that ain’t a terrific rating. The truth is, if this seven p.c rating holds, Return to Silent Hill will go down as one of the worst-reviewed movies ever. Yikes.
The overall consensus from critics is that whereas components of Return to Silent Hill look nice, the movie is a boring, sloppy, complicated, and (maybe worst of all for the style) not-very-scary film a few most important character that’s exhausting to narrate to and who appears extra confused than terrified.
“This powerful survival horror story has been turned into an ugly, laughable adaptation that proves that maybe we should’ve never gone back to Silent Hill,” mentioned Ross Bonaime over at Collider.
“Christophe Gans’s film does away with all the psychosexual nuance of Silent Hill 2,” claims Justin Clark at Slant Journal.
“I found the experience difficult to sit through and nonsensical from moment to moment, with its confounding story and shoddy CGI matched only by its lack of entertainment value,” mentioned critic Brian Eggert.
In the meanwhile, there is just one non-rotten rating, from Dominic Baez on the Seattle Instances, and it doesn’t learn like a loving endorsement of the film. As an alternative, it looks as if Baez discovered many of the film dangerous, however loved the ending. The tip credit are apparently very “stylish.” When critics are praising your credit and never a lot else, that’s a foul signal.
