Return to Silent Hill (2026)
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When James receives a mysterious letter from his lost love Mary, he is drawn to Silent Hill—a once-familiar town now consumed by darkness. As he searches for her, James faces monstrous creatures and unravels a terrifying truth that will push him to the edge of his sanity.
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... James Sunderland
... Mary Crane / Angela / Maria / Moth Mary
... Laura
... Pyramid Head
... Eddie
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When it takes over thirty minutes for a film to go anywhere even remotely interesting, for my money, something is wrong.
"Return to Silent Hill" lacks both pace and scares; in short, I found it boring. It's not the actors' fault; they hand in decent performances. Its story, in my opinion, needed to be reworked to make it more engaging and exciting.
In summary, acting is fine, but I found the story lackadaisical and dull. Can't recommend this one.
Director:
Writer:
Christophe Gans (Writer)
Sandra Vo-Anh (Writer)
William Josef Schneider (Writer)
Hiroyuki Owaku (Screenstory)
Release Date:
2026-01-21
Run Time:
106 min
MMPA Rating:
R
Reviews of
Return to Silent Hill
When it takes over thirty minutes for a film to go anywhere even remotely interesting, for my money, something is wrong.
"Return to Silent Hill" lacks both pace and scares; in short, I found it boring. It's not the actors' fault; they hand in decent performances. Its story, in my opinion, needed to be reworked to make it more engaging and exciting.
In summary, acting is fine, but I found the story lackadaisical and dull. Can't recommend this one.
Ok, so I don’t remember going to “Silent Hill” first time around (in 2006), but after this I am certain I will never go again. At least Christopher Gans had enough wits about him to cast someone easy on the eye in the lead, but even the ashen-looking Jeremy Irvine couldn’t breathe any life into this. He’s “James” who meets up with “Mary” (Hannah Emily Anderson) after he managed to hit her luggage with his car. Thereafter they flirt, court, move in together, split up - but as far as this plot is concerned, in no coherent order and only delivered to us by way of flashback. It’s only as he returns to find her again he discovers the town is now the victim of what looks like a nearby meteor strike and the place devoid of all but some curious humanoid creatures that definitely mean him harm. Can he put the pieces of this emotionally confused jigsaw together? Do we care? If this were just to have been a monster film with Irvine in a semi-psychotic fight for survival, then perhaps it might have worked better. It isn’t. The timelines are all over the place; characters appear and the disappear seemingly quite randomly and the psychological impact of the story is so compromised as to render this little better than a mess that looks every inch an incremental video game put onto a big screen. Some of the creativity behind the visual effects is to be commended but the story is completely lacking in either characterisation or substance. It will kill some time on the telly in October, maybe, but otherwise this has little to recommend it to anyone.
Cast & Crew of
Return to Silent Hill
Cast
... James Sunderland
... Mary Crane / Angela / Maria / Moth Mary
... Laura
... Pyramid Head
... Eddie
... M
... Kaitlyn
... Dara
... Meyers Twin
... Meyers Twin
... Mitzy
... Cal
... Claudette
... The Homeless Man
... Attending Physician
... Waitress
... Bouncer
... Joshua Crane
... Nurse
... Armless / Spider Lady
... Armless
... Doctor
... Doctor
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... Script Supervisor
... Costume Design
... Executive Producer
... Executive Producer
... Producer
... Makeup Designer
... Producer
... Producer
... Writer
... Writer
... Writer
... Producer
... Producer
... Editor
... Co-Producer
... Co-Producer
... Producer
... Production Design
... Director of Photography
... Location Manager
... Stunt Coordinator
... Production Sound Mixer
... Associate Producer
... Director
... Original Music Composer
... Executive Producer
... Video Game
... Screenstory
... Visual Effects
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