Silent Hill 2 is being remade
(Picture: Konami Digital Entertainment)After months of speculation, Silent Hill is finally back. Ten years on from the last entry in the legendary horror series, Konami has announced not just one new Silent Hill, but three.
Released in 1999, the original Silent Hill was an instant creepy classic, out-scaring Resident Evil with its darker tale of a strange New England town, where monsters lurked in a mysterious fog.
The 2001 sequel, Silent Hill 2, is routinely listed as one of the most frightening games ever made. A remake of the latter spearheads this revival. Developed for PC and PS5 by Bloober Team, the makers of Layers of Fear and The Medium, it promises to introduce a whole new generation of gamers to its nightmare bogeyman, Pyramid Head, and the decayed dimensions he inhabits.
The new Silent Hill 2 will be followed by two new titles. Silent Hill: Townfall, from Annapurna Interactive, the team behind cult horror hit Stories Untold, promises a different take on Silent Hill, based on a trailer full of scratchy, low-fi visuals shown through an old-school, pocket-sized TV.
If that sounds weird, Silent Hill F looks ever weirder. Bringing the franchise outside the US for the first time, it’s set in an abandoned Japanese town sometime in the 1960s, and goes big on gruesome fungal parasites, flowering corpses, and crawling bio-horrors, with the shocks exacerbated by a nerve-shredding score.
Warning: The following trailers are unsuitable for children.
Konami also confirmed a new Silent Hill movie, Return to Silent Hill, from the director of the first adaptation, Christophe Gans, which is in production, and is supposedly based on the plot of Silent Hill 2.
Meanwhile, a new live-action series, Silent Hill: Ascension, set for 2023, promises a blend of TV horror and interactive entertainment that, the makers claim, takes ‘that feeling of communal fear to a massive scale’. It’s understood that viewers will be able to chat and change scenes and outcomes while they watch each episode.
Release dates for all three games have yet to be announced.
Silent Hill was last set to be revived as Silent Hills, by Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima, and filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro, but the game was cancelled abruptly in 2015.
