Curated playlist
Silent Hill
- Silent Hill (film series)When Christophe Gans proposed a Silent Hill adaptation to producer Samuel Hadida, he was still in the middle of filming Brotherhood of the Wolf. He would compete against Paramount Pictures, Sam Raimi, and Cruise/Wagner Productions for the…
- Masahiro ItoMasahiro Ito is the Japanese artist responsible for some of the most unsettling creature designs in video game history. His monsters do not simply look dangerous. They look wrong, in a way that is hard to explain and harder to forget. How…
- Silent Hill: RevelationSilent Hill: Revelation arrived in cinemas on the 26th of October 2012, carrying the weight of a franchise with a troubled past and a fanbase with very specific expectations. The film dropped into development chaos before a single frame…
- Mary Elizabeth McGlynnMary Elizabeth McGlynn was born on the 16th of October 1966, and over the decades that followed she became one of the most versatile figures in English-language voice performance. She is not simply a voice actress. She is also a singer, a…
- Team SilentTeam Silent no longer exists, and according to an artist who worked on Silent Hill: Homecoming, its own creator ended it. Konami broke up the internal Japanese team itself, wanting Western developers to make the games instead. For years…
- Silent HillSilent Hill began as a small internal project at Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo in September 1996, and what emerged from that studio would reshape what horror games could be. The first game arrived in 1999, and the franchise it…
- Return to Silent HillReturn to Silent Hill exists because Christophe Gans refused to make a different film. He later said the producers of a 2012 sequel had wanted "a kind of Resident Evil." Gans refused: "I wanted to stay true to my principles." Released in…
- Takayoshi SatoTakayoshi Sato has built a career as a character designer, writer, and CGI creator. From 1996 to 2003, he was part of a Japanese development unit called Team Silent. There, he created the CGI cutscenes for Silent Hill and Silent Hill 2.…
- Akira YamaokaAkira Yamaoka was born in Niigata on the 6th of February 1968. He initially sought to become a designer rather than a musician. While studying product design and interior design at Tokyo Art College, he transitioned into music instead.…
- Silent Hill (film)Silent Hill, the 2006 supernatural horror film directed by Christophe Gans, began with an obsession. For five years, Gans pursued the rights to adapt Konami's video game series, and when Konami's board finally watched his 37-minute video…
- Daniel LichtDaniel Licht was born on the 13th of March 1957, and by the time he died in August 2017, he had scored some of the most distinctive television and video game music of his era. His name was not one that casual fans could place, yet his…
- Joe RomersaJoe Romersa was nineteen years old when the road turned on him. A touring drummer who had just started his professional career, he found himself homeless in New Jersey after what he would later describe as a tragic early tour. For most…