Path of Darkness: Making Silent Hill (Latin Spanish Subtitles)

Interesting facts about Silent Hill (the movie): 1. Christophe Gans spent 5 years trying to convince Konami to allow him to adapt Silent Hill, and was only able to do so after filming a short version of it on his own budget. Konami was impressed with his film, and agreed to allow him to co-write and direct a feature film version of the game. Roger Avary was later brought on to write the film’s dialogue, due to the poor English of Gans and fellow writer Nicolas Boukhrief. 2. One of the core themes of the movie is “motherhood“ and “what it means to be a mother“. The film explores different facets of mother-child relationships. These include Rose-Sharon, Dahlia-Alessa, and Eleanor-Anna. Sister Margaret has a motherly role towards the orphans. In an unused script scene, Cybil speaks about her mother and how her mother’s death from an illness impacted her life. 3. At the start of the film, when Rose pauses under the overpass while looking for Sharon, several recognizable items are spray-painted on the wall in the background, including the GMC logo and “The Beatles“. During a wide shot, spray-painted in the uppermost right corner are the words “Cheryl and Wolf“ (a reference to Cheryl Mason and Claudia Wolf); the shot then cuts to a close-up of “Cheryl“. 4. The film features various references to Silent Hill 3: Sharon’s line “Don’t talk to strangers“ quotes Heather Mason’s first encounter with Douglas Cartland. 5. A symbol very similar to the Seal of Metatron can be seen twice in the Otherworld version of Midwich Elementary School when Dark Alessa appears at her desk scribbling furiously. 6. Throughout the film, “Brahms“ is spelled “Brahams“. It is unknown if this is an intentional artistic choice or an error. Ironically, Cybil Bennett is the only one to actually say the word “Brahams“ in the whole movie while her last name is misspelled in the promotional newspaper for the movie. 7. Most of the monsters featured are taken from Silent Hill 2: the Lying Figure (’Armless Man’), the Bubble Head Nurse (’Dark Nurse’) and Pyramid Head (’Red Pyramid’). The Mannequin creature is also somewhat referenced, as there are two scenes that prominently feature broken-down mannequins. Otherwise, the only monsters adapted from the first game are the Mumbler/Grey Child and the Creepers. The only original creature featured in the film is ’Colin the Janitor’, who was thought up the day before his scenes were shot. The majority of the soundtrack is also from the second installment. 8. There were over 100 different outfits made for Radha Mitchell, changing subtly from a dark chocolate shade to blood red. Radha Mitchell didn’t wash her hair through most of the filming to help the dirty unwashed look of her character. There were a total of 165 sets and locations used for the film. 9. The character of “Dark Alessa“ is never credited in the movie’s cast list, however, she is named as one of Jodelle’s characters on the official site, in interviews, and in the film’s presskit. 10. Screenwriter Roger Avery based the film’s Silent Hill on the town of Centralia, Pennsylvania, which also has a coal fire that still burns today. While the script was being developed, it was codenamed “Centralia“. 11. The scene with the Lying Figure/Armless Man is highly relatable to when James Sunderland first encounters the monster. In the movie, the creature comes from a junkyard, while in the game, the Lying Figure is also spotted in a dirty, junked and closed-off area. After the Armless Man dies, more of the monsters can be spotted emerging above the distant trash. 12. In the film, birds appear to signal the upcoming Otherworld shift. When Rose first enters the alley, disturbed ravens take flight just before the sirens begin to blare, similar to the scene just outside the church. As well, when the Brethren endeavor to break through the door Rose was behind, a bird within a cage becomes frantic and they cease their assault, carrying the bird with them. This was not originally a part of the script; writer Roger Avary had to talk Christophe Gans into the idea. 13. Ironically, Jodelle Ferland was the first actress hired for the production, despite Gans fearing that he would have to delay production to find a child actress capable of playing three parts. 14. Silent Hill contains a vast amount of Christian symbolism. The three worlds are meant to symbolically represent Heaven (the real world), Hell (the Otherworld) and Purgatory (the Fog World), Biblical quotes are used to highlight Alessa’s story, and various characters represent figures from the Bible (Rose as the Virgin Mary, and Sharon / Alessa / Dark Alessa as the Holy Trinity). Source: Silent Hill DVD & Blu-Ray (2006) ©℗ 2006, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Inc. All Rights Reserved. #makingof #silenthill