20 Mind-Blowing Facts You Didn't Know About Silent Hill
4. Silent Hill Is Full Of References To Horror Movies...
The first Silent Hill wears its influences on its sleeve. Or, more accurately, it wears its influences all over its blocky, terrifying landscape the game takes a lot of cues from American horror movies, with the developers taking a somewhat radical approach to Konami's demand that they produce a Hollywood-style game. To them, that meant watching lots of scary films. Not only were those films used as a way to dig into the plot, themes and atmosphere of Silent Hill, but also to just straight-up homage them in-game. Poke around a bit and you can find tonnes of Easter eggs relating to horror films in the first Silent Hill. Right at the start there are torn posters for Stanley Kubrick's The Shining visible on a wall. Then there's the newspaper dispenser whose headline reads BILL SKINS FITH - identical to the front page of a paper in The Silence Of The Lambs; not far from there is the graffiti RED RUM splattered over a garage door, another Shining reference; there's a shop called Cut-Rite Chainsaws, modelled after one that appears in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2; and a stairwell based on one from Psycho.
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