Silent Hill: True Story & Real Town's History Explained
Before Silent Hill became a horror film, it was a survival horror video game developed by a team at Konami named Team Silent for the PlayStation in 1999. The game utilized a foggy atmosphere to inhibit the player’s vision while they control Harry Mason on the search for his missing adopted daughter. Its unforgettable landscape and horrific features spawned an entire franchise of films and video game sequels. While the horror video game is well-known, its true story and the actual location are rarely recognized.
In 2006, Christopher Gans adapted the game into a psychological horror film with the same name. Instead of Harry, the film follows Rose (Radha Mitchell) as she takes her adopted daughter Sharon (Jodelle Ferland) to the town of Silent Hill, West Virginia. Sharon screams the town’s name in her sleep, which causes Rose to take her there. As the two arrive, they are involved in a car accident, and Sharon goes missing.
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As ash and fog roll over Silent Hill, Rose searches for her daughter only to discover that the town is overrun by demonic entities, a cult, and shifts between dimensions. The original film's success spawned a sequel in 2012 titled Silent Hill: Revelation, which wasbased on the third game in the series. It follows Rose’s daughter, Sharon, as the main character. Like the Resident Evil franchise, Silent Hill made its mark in horror history as a classic video game and original film concept.
While the environment of Silent Hill seems as though it could only exist in nightmares, it is a very real place with a devastating history. The town of Silent Hill, West Virginia, is actually Centralia, Pennsylvania. In May 1962, the city
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