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

13. Some Of The Games Were Heavily Censored

Whilst Silent Hill's inception was very much inspired by Resident Evil, it rarely strayed into the gory B-movie extremes its fellow survival horror series traded in. Where they were based on schlocky George Romero zombie flicks, Silent Hill took the atmosphere of David Lynch's experimental oeuvre and the body horror of David Cronenberg and artist Francis Bacon into account. Yet despite mostly avoiding anything approaching realistic violence in its depictions of the titular town's monstrous inhabitants. Still, Homecoming ran into some trouble with the infamously strict Australian and German rating boards; the violence was toned down for the former, but all the nastiness lead to it being straight-up banned in the latter. It was the first game that caused the most problems, though. The Grey Child were redesigned for the North American release, as censors understandably stood opposed to the idea of tiny naked children with knives you could kill. For the European release, meanwhile, the characters simply had their weapons removed, and you couldn't interact with them. Which made them creepier.