7. Models Get Reused All The Time (To Creepy Effect)
All kinds of weird stuff happens to those characters once they're actually in the game. There's a graphical glitch in the HD re-release of Silent Hill 2 (ported and upgraded for the PS3) where, towards the end of the game, the texture of Maria's eye would be swapped for the texture of her teeth, making her look a bit like the Corinthian from Sandman. Creepy, but unintentionally so. The practice shows up most freakishly in Silent Hill 2, when you find a dead body in front of a television. Despite the heavy gore you can just about make out that the body is actually James Sunderland, the character you're playing as; it acts as foreshadowing to his slumped response to watching a video later in the game, as well as being hella creepy. There are a handful of dead bodies scattered around the game that used the same model, too. In Silent Hill 3 an eviscerated corpse the player comes across is based on the model used for Angela from the second game. Meanwhile, in Silent Hill 4: The Room, the scene of Walter Sullivan removing a woman's womb in a hospital? That character model is Claudia Wolf. Pretty freaky.