Silent Hill movie director Christophe Gans has announced he’s making not one but two new video game-themed movies – one based on the foggy town of Silent Hill, and another featuring the unsettling Japanese horror series, Fatal Frame/Project Zero.
Talking to French-language news site Allocine about his career and future aspirations (thanks, Rely on Horror), Gans said it was time “to make a new [Silent Hill movie]” and revealed he’s once again teaming up with Victor Hadida for both projects. According to my GCSE French and a little help from Google Translate, it seems the movie will once again focus on the cult as Gans says the Silent Hill movie will always be anchored in the ambience of a small American town “ravaged by puritanism”.
The Project Zero movie, on the other hand, will be filmed in its native Japan as Gans did not want to “uproot the game from its Japanese haunted house setting”.
The first of the two Silent Hill movies – despite some dodgy accents – was surprisingly palatable for a game-to-movie spin-off, not least due to long-time series composer Akira Yamaoka’s atmospheric sound and the faithful replication of the series’ most iconic monster designs. Its successor, however, Silent Hill Revelation, was considered by many to be a nonsensical disaster.