Silent HIll: Revelation in 3D is a sequel to the original Silent Hill movie, as well as based off of the third version of the Silent Hill video game. There are terrified, screaming, cute blonde girls and completely creepy mannequin creatures that make me shiver just imagining them. They panel released some BIG news that you must read on to find out.
Bassett brought two clips from the film - "the only PG-13 clips we could find; the rest of it is a really hard R with some terrifying stuff in it." - and he wasn't wrong. We were as cynical about this film - a long-delayed sequel to the original and slightly underwhelming Christophe Gans film from 2006, based on the successful videogame series - but it looks like Bassett has captured the game's terrifying and surreal flavour. In particular, this is based on Silent Hill 3. "Silent Hill 2 deserves a movie all of its own," laughed Bassett.
The first sequence shows heroine Heather Mason (Adelaide Clemens) trying to escape the evil clutches of what can only be described as an evil, hideous, mannequin-spider. That is to say, it's a spider composed of the arms, legs and living faces of mannequins that looks like it could be the pet of Pan's Labyrinth's Pale Man.
And the second sequence shows Mason struggling to free hero Vincent Carter (Game Of Thrones' Kit Harrington, making this something of a GoT spin-off, as Sean Bean returns from the first film) from an invidious position: he's strapped to a hospital gurney, and surrounded by frozen statues of faceless, horrible nurses, who are clutching cleavers and rusty-looking knives. And as he moves, they move closer, and closer...*posted here
"Is it possible to live up to fan expectations?" mused Bassett, who looks like he's gone a long way towards doing so. "I know there are some proper Silent Hill fans who are immersed in the world and their knowledge surpasses me. But the notion is that this has to be a pure Silent Hill movie. The aesthetic is there, the monsters are there, the backgrounds are there. I want to scare the shit out of you on Halloween. That is my principal job."
We'll find out for sure whether Bassett and co. succeeded when Silent Hill: Revelation 3D (and it was shot in 3D; something of a revelation itself in these post-conversion times) opens on Halloween. Which, last time we checked, was on October 31.
Bassett began by discussing the early casting process for the film. ”Kit (Harrington) came in to audition for me and Game of Thrones had not been shown yet, and I knew that it was going to be him in this role. Then Game of Thrones came out and suddenly we’ve got John Snow in our movie! It’s weird the way things work like that because this really is a small industry in some cases.”
The big, big news, that makes me shake with fear because I live near it, is that that they’re bringing Silent Hill to Universal Studios Halloween Horror nights. (I can see Universal Studios Hollywood from my roof. When you go and scream your head off, think of me.)
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