{"id":18704,"date":"2026-06-23T20:00:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T00:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18704"},"modified":"2026-06-22T18:34:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T22:34:31","slug":"return-to-silent-hill-2026-christophe-gans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18704","title":{"rendered":"Return to Silent Hill (2026, Christophe Gans)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Opening scene is so lousy, but the colors are bright, I remember liking the first movie (and that’s all I remember about it) and there’s promise of a Pyramid Head monster (which is also what I’ve been calling the pileated woodpeckers buzzing around the cabin), so, keeping an open mind.<\/p>\n

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Ivor Novello (Benediction<\/a><\/em>) meets the lovely Mary (a horror regular, of various Saws<\/em> and Purges<\/em>). Flash-forward, she is dead because he’s such a bad driver (this is his defining character trait), but still sends him a letter to return to their home, which is an increasingly dodgy-digi-fx place. I think he has Trauma, and his personal Silent Hill is inside the mind – an ash-covered town, the local duplex playing Jacob’s Ladder<\/em> and The Tenant<\/a><\/em>. It’s one of those Shutter Island<\/em> (or Jacob’s Ladder<\/em>) stories where an empty man<\/a> gradually figures out who he is\/was.<\/p>\n

Love at the bottom of the sea:<\/em>
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Some people<\/a> attempted to write a normal movie review, focusing on what is actually in the movie, most of which sucks, while people with internet madness are predictably calling it a perfect film from a master stylist, or the most affecting onscreen portrait of grief ever filmed. Me, I am postponing plans to rewatch part one this SHOCKtober.<\/p>\n

Me, going out to tape Smashing Pumpkins at the Metro:<\/em>
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Metro security, spotting my gear:<\/em>
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Opening scene is so lousy, but the colors are bright, I remember liking the first movie (and that’s all I remember about it) and there’s promise of a Pyramid Head monster (which is also what I’ve been calling the pileated woodpeckers buzzing around the cabin), so, keeping an open mind. Ivor Novello (Benediction) meets the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2643,2081,54,181,1623,92],"class_list":["post-18704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-car-crash","tag-horror","tag-sequel","tag-trauma-drama","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18704"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18726,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18704\/revisions\/18726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}