20 Mind-Blowing Facts You Didn't Know About Silent Hill

6. There's A Real Silent Hill... Sort Of

Silent Hill is a horrible nightmare nightmare world, but at least it's only a horrible nightmare world that exists in a series of video games, a handful of beyond average comic books and those two films nobody likes to speak of, right? Well, erm, maybe not. The original games in the series were based on a basic understanding of American towns gleaned from movies watched by the Japanese developers. Since the first film was released, however, the games have taken inspiration from the real-life town of Centralia, Pennsylvania. Much like Silent Hill, it's a (mostly) abandoned ghost town that's sparsely populated, save for the crumbling ruins of buildings that dot the landscape. Oh, and there's lots of huge crack in the ground. Just like the second game! Thankfully Centralia doesn't play host to dozens of Freudian nightmare creatures. In fact its population has dwindled down to just eight, with the rest having moved as result of a coal fire in the mines underneath the town, which has been burning for decades and causes frequent collapses of buildings and entire streets. The films were partly filmed there.