20 Video Game Movie and TV Moments That INSULTED Fans

Two decades after the release of the first Silent Hill film, and fourteen years after the second, we finally have a third instalment for the franchise. Rather than pick up where the first two left off, the misleadingly titled Return to Silent Hill reboots the franchise.

Based on the overwhelmingly successful 2001 game Silent Hill 2, the film follows James Sunderland (Jeremy Irvine), who seeks the life and love he left behind in Silent Hill, but – after receiving a letter from his former love Mary Crane (Hannah Emily Anderson) calling him back – returns to find the town abandoned. Shrouded in mist and stalked by haunting creatures, Silent Hill becomes the site of James’ desperate struggle for survival, slipping between nightmare and reality as he tries to find Mary.

The Silent Hill films have never been well received, holding a place somewhere between Resident Evil and Dead or Alive in terms of both critical and general public response, and this one is no different. More than any other single element, it’s the handling of Mary’s backstory that turned fans off. In the game, James struggles with the guilt of murdering his wife in cold blood after finding himself unable to cope with her mental and physical illness; but the film shoddily sidestepped this by having Mary as the daughter of a cult leader whose cult fed her blood until she got sick and asked James to end her suffering. And this effectively ruins the rest of the game-established plot in the process.