Silent Hill: Revelation
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Directed by | M. J. Bassett[a] |
Written by | M. J. Bassett |
Based on | Silent Hill by Konami |
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Starring | |
Cinematography | Maxime Alexandre[1] |
Edited by | Michele Conroy[1] |
Music by | Akira Yamaoka Jeff Danna |
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Running time | 95 minutes[2] |
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Language | English |
Budget | $20 million[4] |
Box office | $55.9 million[4] |
Silent Hill: Revelation (also known as Silent Hill: Revelation 3D) is a 2012 supernatural horror film written and directed by M. J. Bassett[a] and based on the video game series Silent Hill published by Konami. It is the second installment in the Silent Hill film series. The film, produced as a sequel to Silent Hill (2006), stars Adelaide Clemens, Kit Harington, Martin Donovan, Malcolm McDowell and Carrie-Anne Moss, with Deborah Kara Unger, Sean Bean and Radha Mitchell returning from the previous film.[5] The plot follows Heather Mason (Clemens), who, discovering on the eve of her eighteenth birthday that her presumed identity is false, is drawn to the town of Silent Hill.
Talks for a Silent Hill sequel began in December 2006, with
Silent Hill: Revelation was released theatrically in North America on October 26, 2012, by Alliance Films and Open Road Films respectively; in France on November 28, by Metropolitan Filmexport. The film grossed over $55.9 million worldwide and received largely negative reviews from critics.[4][6] A reboot, Return to Silent Hill, is in production.[7][8]
Plot
Sharon Da Silva and her adoptive father Christopher have spent the past few years moving from town to town and assuming different identities, including the names
Heather meets fellow student
Vincent escorts her home, but they find a message instructing Heather to go to Silent Hill, and Heather reads a letter from her father detailing the truth of her background. Heather and Vincent travel to the town, but stop at a motel, where Vincent reveals that he is the son of the Order's leader
Heather ventures into the foggy dimension to find her father. She encounters Alessa's mother
Heather saves Vincent and they go to Lakeside Amusement Park where the Order's sanctuary is hidden. Dark Alessa, the manifestation of Alessa's wrath, confronts Heather who embraces her counterpart, absorbing her, and making Alessa complete once again. Heather confronts Claudia, who is holding Christopher and Vincent hostage. Claudia explains that Alessa's destiny was to be the incubator for a deity worshiped by the Order, who would punish all sinners upon its birth, completing Heather's destiny as well. Remembering Leonard's words, Heather gives Claudia the Seal of Metatron, revealing her to be the Missionary. Heather summons Pyramid Head, who kills the Missionary, allowing Heather to rescue Vincent and Christopher.
As the fog fades from the town, Christopher decides to stay in Silent Hill to find and free Rose, leaving Heather and Vincent to care for each other. They hitch a ride in a truck driven by
Cast
- Dahlia Gillespie, who was severely burned by the Order of Valtiel and exacted revenge on them.
- Vincent Smith, a classmate of Heather and secretly a member of the Order of Valtiel and the son of Claudia Wolf, sent to take Heather to Silent Hill.
- Harry Mason / Christopher Da Silva,[9]the adoptive father of Heather/Sharon, who has been keeping Heather/Sharon's true identity and memories a secret out of protection for six years.
- Claudia Wolf, the priestess of the Order of Valtiel, sister of Christabella and Dahlia, daughter of Leonard, mother of Vincent, and the main antagonist of the film, who holds Christopher captive.
- Liise Keeling as The Missionary, Claudia’s monster form, revealed after she touches the Seal of Metatron.
- Malcolm McDowell as Leonard Wolf, the grandfather of Vincent and father of Claudia, who was chained down and abandoned by the Order of Valtiel.
- Douglas Cartland,[10]a detective hired by Claudia to spy on Sharon and Vincent to capture them.
- Deborah Kara Unger as Dahlia Gillespie, the ragged and depressed biological mother of Alessa Gillespie, who wanders through the foggy dimension of Silent Hill.
- Radha Mitchell as Rose Da Silva, the adoptive mother of Sharon and wife to Christopher, who is trapped in the foggy dimension of Silent Hill after the events of the first film.
- Heather Marks as Suki, a girl who took a wrong turn and got lost in the foggy dimension of Silent Hill.
- Roberto Campanella as Pyramid Head,[11] a humanoid monster wearing a triangular shaped helmet who protects Sharon and Alessa.
- Alessa Gillespie, the tormented daughter of Dahlia Gillespie, who was severely burned by the Order of Valtiel and exacted revenge on them; and as the younger Sharon Da Silva, along with Dark Alessa, who is seen frequently haunting Heather.
- Travis Grady, a character from Silent Hill: Origins who makes a cameonear the end of the film.
Production
Absence of Christophe Gans and Roger Avary (2006–2010)
In December 2006, Silent Hill writer/director Christophe Gans announced that Sony had officially ordered another installment in the Silent Hill film series. Gans stated that he would like to return to the franchise, if his commitment to Onimusha did not bar him from participating. Gans also confirmed that Roger Avary would be back to write the script.[12]
In 2007, producer
In November 2009, Carmody told
In August 2010, Carmody said the sequel had "stalled" due to Avary's imprisonment, but that he still wanted to be involved with the film and had a basic outline for it.[13]
M. J. Bassett's involvement (2010–present)
In November 2010, it was announced that Lionsgate had begun pre-sales on the next installment and that M. J. Bassett would direct the film, titled Silent Hill: Revelation 3D. Bassett revealed she had written her own screenplay, replacing Roger Avary. She added that she would bring back as many of the core creative team as she could from the first film to keep its look and feel, but add "more darkness and fear into the mix as well".
On July 14, 2012, M. J. Bassett appeared at San Diego Comic-Con. She showed two clips from the movie. The first was a short clip showing the Mannequin Monster, and the second showed Vincent tied to an operating table surrounded by Nurses. A movie trailer was released later that month, and from then on, more TV spots, posters and promotional stills were released in anticipation of the film.
Direction
Bassett has stated that while Silent Hill 3 would have been the best game to adapt, Revelation is a sequel to the first film first and foremost, and still needed to make sense with what the first film had established, such as the mythology and relations between characters. People who watched the film expecting "Silent Hill 3: The Movie" would be disappointed in that it differed from the game in many places, as it took different directions in many areas. The film was supposed to be a sequel to the first film that used Silent Hill 3 as groundwork.
Despite this, there were supposed to be many nods to the games that only gamers would catch, and the way many scenes were shot in the film were supposed to reminiscent of Silent Hill 3,[citation needed] such as the cinematography of the carousel scene.
In a 2018 podcast interview with The Movie Crypt,[
Casting
Before filming began, Bassett was open to suggestions in casting the woman to play Heather, allowing fans to post the names of actresses on her blog that they believed could play her, provided that the actress could realistically portray an eighteen-year-old and had experience in other films.[14] Adelaide Clemens was eventually chosen for the role of Heather, though no one had suggested her. Bassett made another post asking for suggestions for Claudia's actress and some fans suggested Donna Burke, who had provided the voice and motion capture for the character in Silent Hill 3, but Bassett was disappointed by the suggestions, feeling it was not a "very imaginative selection", and removed the post.
Kit Harington acknowledged Vincent's character had been changed from the game version in order to give some leeway as a support character for Heather. Heather was somewhat less of a "smartass" to give her a more realistic personality. Bassett was interested in a character who shows "some genuine human responses to the terrible things she experiences."
Original cast, including Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean, Deborah Kara Unger, and Roberto Campanella were all contacted to reprise their characters, which they accepted. Bean admitted that he was confused with the name change.[15]
Filming
In March 2011, the production team began filming in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. Production was delayed when a freak snowstorm hit the set in Cambridge on March 23, 2011. On May 15, 2011, Bassett announced that filming had ended and was in post-production. It was eventually announced that the film would be released on October 26, 2012, by Open Road Films.
Sound design and music
In 2009,
Release
Silent Hill: Revelation had its premier in Hong Kong on October 25, 2012. It was theatrically released in the U.S. through
Reception
Box office
Silent Hill: Revelation opened at #5 at the box office, taking in a weekend number of $8 million, and grossed a total of $55,975,672 worldwide.[4]
Critical response
Silent Hill: Revelation received negative reviews from film critics. The film holds a 8% approval rating on
Dennis Harvey of Variety said that Silent Hill: Revelation 3D is a "cheaper, cheesier sequel that's worse than its predecessor on every level (save being a half-hour shorter) and takes no special advantage of the stereoscopic process."[3] Andy Webster of The New York Times criticized its poorly written characters and plot, which he considered "thumbnail sketches at best", and stated that the film "reduces its human players to plastic action figures in tired genre settings."[31] Kenneth Brown of Blu-ray.com expressed that "Revelation is terrible. [...] Every time Maxime Alexandre's cinematography and the sequel's rusty boiler room atmosphere delivers, every time writer/director M. J. Bassett [...] transplants a still-beating heart from the Silent Hill videogame [sic] series that's genuinely chilling, the film descends into direct-to-video mediocrity".[32]
Sequel
In October 2012, M. J. Bassett stated that if she was to make a sequel, instead of adapting from an existing game, she would prefer to use the stories in the graphic novel adaptations.[33]
In January 2020, Christophe Gans told French magazine
Gans and Hadida developed the concept and pitched it to rights holder Konami. According to Gans, the company felt galvanized by the success of Capcom's Resident Evil 2 remake and greenlit the film as part of an initiative to get Silent Hill back into the public consciousness. In June 2022, Gans stated that he finished the script under Konami's supervision while isolated during the COVID-19 pandemic and the project was eyeing a 2023 release. He clarified that it is not a direct sequel to the 2006–2012 film series and that his sensibilities had evolved since the release of the first film:
"Silent Hill is a bit like Twilight Zone, the Fourth Dimension, a place where anything and everything can happen. I worked on a new Silent Hill which is a Silent Hill of the year 2023 and not a Silent Hill as I imagined it in 2006. It is clear that today's horror cinema no longer resembles the horror cinema of 2006. Good for that matter. Not that 2007 horror cinema wasn't good, but every genre is going through an evolution. I'm trying to take into account what I've been able to see recently, which is more original and more surprising in terms of horror films, and to see if in Silent Hill there are the seeds, or even the expression of that. Silent Hill has always been a game beyond the norm and ahead of its time."
In September 2022, Gans told in a interviewer he had finished the planned film's storyboards and it takes inspiration from P.T., the playable teaser for the cancelled game Silent Hills. He said:
"There, I have practically finished the storyboards for this new Silent Hill and there are indeed a few nods to P.T. because, obviously, it made us all dream."
By October 2022, the movie was officially
See also
Notes
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