Source: www.upcominghorrormovies.com

Silent Hill


Rose cannot accept the knowledge that her daughter Sharon is dying of a fatal disease. Over the protests of her husband, she flees with her child, intending to take the girl to a faith healer. On the way, she ends up driving through a portal in reality, which takes her to the eerie and deserted town of Silent Hill. Sharon disappears in Silent Hill, and Rose follows what she thinks is her daughter's silhouette all over town. It's soon clear the town is not like any place she's ever been. It's inhabited by a variety of creatures and a living darkness that descends and literally transforms everything it touches. The human inhabitants—the ones who are left—are trapped and fighting a losing battle against the Darkness.

Joined by a cop named Cybil, who has been sent to bring her and Sharon back, Rose searches for her little girl while learning the history of Silent Hill and that Sharon is just a pawn in a larger game. To save her daughter, Sharon makes a deal with a demon in the form of a little girl, and allows the forces of darkness to take the town and destroy those who tried to destroy the demon.

DETAILS

- Budgeted between $45 to $50-million.
- Patrick Tatopoulos (The Cave, Underworld: Evolution) will be working on the film's creatures.
- Make-up artist Paul Jones (Resident Evil: Apocalypse) will be heading the gore effects.
- Roger Avary (Rules of Attraction) is scripting.
- The game spawned three sequels.
- Konami Corporation will help recreate the universal appeal of the game by overseeing the script development, participating in the design of all the monsters, creatures and characters as well as aiding in the film’s soundtrack composition.
- Director Christophe Gans also directed the French flick, Brotherhood of the Wolf.
- Production company Davis Films will produce.
- Based on the hit video game.

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Filming Article (Source: www.brantfordexpositer.com)

Wait and watch is the message of filmmakers who have spent millions to transform Colborne Street into an ash-strewn ghost town.

Secrecy continues to surround the filming of Silent Hill, the thriller based on the popular and suspenseful video games. Photographs were forbidden on set and a TV news crew was turfed from the downtown, where shooting began at 5:40 a.m. on Monday and wrapped around 6:30 p.m.

The clampdown is necessary to curb wild interest from gamers, who are scouring the Web for any tidbits, said producer Don Carmody.

“(Silent Hill) has a fairly rabid fan base,” Carmody said in an interview on the Colborne Street set. “And we don’t want to ruin the surprises.

“People get extremely upset if they think you’re changing things ... So, rather than have them get riled up with misinformation, we’d prefer they get no information at all, and just go and see the movie and judge it on its own merits.”

Carmody is familiar with gamer frenzy from work on Resident Evil: Apocalypse, the 2004 movie based on another hit video game. On Silent Hill, he’s co-producing with Samuel Hadida of France, whose resume includes the first Resident Evil movie, as well as Brotherhood of the Wolf. Christophe Gans is directing and the screenplay is by Roger Avary.

For production purposes, the movie is being referred to as Centralia. But, possibly in response to fan protest, the release name has been changed back to Silent Hill.

Casting details have also been slow to emerge, but are now confirmed. Australian Radha Mitchell, recent star of Melinda and Melinda and Finding Neverland, plays Rose, the lead character who is searching for her lost daughter, Sharon, in the terrifying town of Silent Hill.


California-born Laurie Holden is Cybill, the police officer helping Rose, while the role of Sharon is being filled by 10-year-old B.C. actress Jodelle Ferland. Deborah Kerr Unger is Dahlia, a witch-like character who lives upstairs at 68 Colborne — transformed into Traditional Tailoring for the movie.

Also cast is British Lord of the Rings star Sean Bean — he played Boromir — and Canadian Kim Coates.

The characters encounter terrifying obstacles at every turn, said Carmody, calling the movie a psychological thriller with broad appeal. “You don’t have to play the game to see what’s going on and to share in the suspense and the struggle to overcome Silent Hill.”

But the demonic inhabitants of the movie’s ghostly alternate reality won’t be seen on the street: computer-generated imagery will be added in a Toronto film studio.

Instead, Monday found a well-behaved crowd of about 50 watching as shooting progressed intermittently throughout the day. Mimicking the constantly falling white ash in the video game, flakes of sooty, grey cellulose coated the sidewalks and blew in the wind along the streets, which were lined with dead plants and covered with a layer of grime.

At the corner of Queen and Colborne Streets — transformed into Nathan Avenue and Katz Road -- spectators obediently hushed as crew called “Quiet.” Holden — dressed in black leather police jodhpurs — and Mitchell, wearing a skirt and longsleeved top, huddled for a half-minute over a map spread out on the trunk of a dull green ’70s Plymouth.

The short scene was repeated several times, the blonde actresses warming up in parkas in between takes on the unseasonably chilly day.

The typical filming routine of long periods of inaction, followed by brief flurries of activity, seemed strange to some.

“Who would want that life, standing there for a few seconds at a time?” mused Doris Gilarowski, a volunteer at the SPCA thrift shop. She was standing in the store’s glass door, which, like its front window, was completed obscured by grime painted on for the movie.

Earlier, the Queen Street window of Automation Systems Corporation was broken for a scene in which someone reaches in to grab a map from the Silent Hill Chamber of Commerce.

Inside, a front space has been blocked off and turned into a movie set, with office furniture, tourism brochures for Silent Hill, W. Va., and even a standup display for a Silent Hill Turkey Fund. The walls are lined with historic black and white photos of local landmarks, such as the Waterous Foundry, the Superior Courthouse and the train station — real life relics borrowed from Grieve’s Mercantile.

Everything is coated with a layer of dust — made up of cornmeal and flour — and dirt for an old, abandoned appearance.

“It’s so cool,” says Nancy Moffat, corporate accounts manager for Automation Systems, which is being paid for the filming. The company is open, but Moffat confessed to watching the movie instead of working on Monday morning. “It’s definitely exciting. And the people are super nice.”

During the shoot, pedestrians may use downtown streets and stores and restaurants remain open. Affected companies have been compensated, but it remains to be seen if the monies are fair, said Dave McCabe of Kreative Khaos and Piercing at 111 Colborne St., now signed as Cafe Mist.

“We’ll see at the end of the week,” said the owner and tattoo artist. But he was cheered, at least, to see so many people around the shop.

“I’ve seen more action down here in one week than I have in my 17 years downtown.”

The film’s economic impact — including the spinoff of 200 crew and cast staying in town — is expected to top $25,000 a day during the shoot. And the movie has spent several million dollars just on the Brantford set, said Carmody, who couldn’t name an exact figure.

He praised the reception from locals, who have been inconvenienced by road closures and detours.

“The people of Brantford have been very co-operative and I’m very pleased with that. I’ve filmed in a lot of places in Canada and the people here are very nice.”

The movie’s main unit will be shooting in Brantford through Wednesday, before moving on to St. Thomas. Crews from its second unit may be back in town later this week.

Silent Hill will be released by Alliance Atlantis in Canada and Tri-Star Pictures in the U.S., likely in 2006. Hadida’s Metropolitan Filmexport is working with Focus Features on all aspects of international sales and marketing.

Games that are turned to movies end up as flops!!!! :yucky:

This movie sounds too good to be a flop. I mean, a horror movie could contain any scary stuff (lame or good) and still make it to the big screens with a turnout

Well I hope the movie comes out good. I wonder if we get to see some creatures from the Silent Hill games?

:shocked: :shocked: :shocked: WELCOME BACK!! :) :) :)

Yep, from reading the article I hope the monsters aren't going to be lame or flops. They are supposed to be added by CG. And a budget of $45 - $50,000,000 can't be wasted on a flop. The film 'Creep' was a flop, but then again, it was British, lol. We suck at horror :)]

Also, (I haven't seen it yet, but don't want to), House of the Dead was probably the worst flop of a horror movie I have ever seen, lol. And I've only seen the behind the scenes footage from the Xbox House of the Dead III. It was never released in UK cinemas either, so that's a sure sign of a flop. I don't know what the budget was, but it was just people in crusty makeup and mannequin monsters filled with thick pinky syrup for the blood, edited by computer.