Return to Silent Hill, a live-action movie adaptation of Konami’s beloved Silent Hill 2, hits theaters later this week. Early evaluations 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 and marketing 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 simply seeing the sunshine of day after that latest Silent Hill 2 remake did so effectively. However after the delay and the shortage of selling, maybe it is a excellent horror movie? Nope. Doesn’t look like 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 aware of Rotten Tomatoes, that ain’t an ideal rating. In reality, if this seven p.c rating holds, Return to Silent Hill will go down as one of the worst-reviewed movies ever. Yikes.
The final consensus from critics is that whereas elements 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 predominant character that’s laborious to narrate to and who appears extra confused than terrified.
“This highly effective survival horror story has been became an unpleasant, laughable adaptation that proves that possibly we should always’ve by no means gone again to Silent Hill,” mentioned Ross Bonaime over at Collider.
“Christophe Gans’s movie does away with all of the psychosexual nuance of Silent Hill 2,” claims Justin Clark at Slant Journal.
“I discovered the expertise troublesome to sit down by and nonsensical from second to second, with its confounding story and shoddy CGI matched solely by its lack of leisure worth,” mentioned critic Brian Eggert.
In the intervening time, there is just one non-rotten rating, from Dominic Baez on the Seattle Occasions, and it doesn’t learn like a loving endorsement of the film. As a substitute, it looks as if Baez discovered many of the film unhealthy, however loved the ending. The top credit are apparently very “fashionable.” When critics are praising your credit and never a lot else, that’s a foul signal.
