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Incidentally, the reason the 'reverse side' takes on such an ominous aspect is that with her burned body, Alessa's endless nightmares were twisted and amplified by thoughts of the malevolent god. 2 Comments » Awesome, loved both movie and game. In the same way that a person normally repeats REM sleep and non-REM sleep in regular cycles while he or she is sleeping, when the nightmare world approaches a deeper darkness (sleep), a phenomenon occurs in which light is almost completely taken away and the world shifts into an even deeper nightmare as the cycle shifts again. These changes occur because there is a cycle in the world of Alessa's nightmares which envelops the town. For the sake of convenience, this will be referred to as the 'right side' and 'reverse side' in this book. For the video game Silent Hill, parts of Astoria Elementary School from. In the same way, there are also many times when aspects of the town and its buildings change completely. Kindergarten Cop is a 1990 American action comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman and. It becomes night (?) on a number of occasions as Harry moves about the town. There are some cult icons that appear in the game, but those were just some added points to build a frightening feeling.Įven in the nightmare world, there is a cycle. Some of the names have some cult backgrounds or the sort, but what the team was most inspired by were the cult movies from the 70's and the 80's and maybe the Science Fiction movies from the 50's, more than the modern horror novels, actually. PlayStation Magazine: What is the inspiration for the supernatural powers that exist in Silent Hill? Does any of it stem from real life folklore or legend? Keiichiro Toyama: To tell you the truth, and this might be not such an interesting answer, but all of Silent Hill was made up. The darkness is the key element to the game, and we have created a completely new light source engine specifically for this title.

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Using the light and the dark effects to create a life-like atmosphere, using full polygons. A traditional town in the countryside is the setting for the game, where it creates the weirdness and the eeriness in the ordinary world. Silent Hill has many fun horror muses, but the family-friendly Kindergarten Cop may have inspired a prominent detail in the video game. One is that the game was supposed have a 'modern American novel' type of atmosphere.

It’s probably just a weird coincidence.PlayStation Magazine: In your opinion, how does Silent Hill differentiate itself from other games in the horror genre? Keiichiro Toyama: It will be easy to outline Silent Hill's characteristics if we look into the two main concepts that we focused on from the start. Maybe the madness of Silent Hill is encroaching into our reality, retroactively altering beloved classic films in its gradual, nefarious quest to absorb us all into that terrifying fog.Īctually, that’s a pretty stupid idea. Of course, there’s also the possibility that this is a long-dormant facet of the game’s underlying horror that Konami hoped had been lost to the sands of time. But it looks like the designers may have run.

Silent Hill is a very popular video game. It’s not entirely inconceivable that the team watched Kindergarten Cop and innocuously swiped a few details here and there. Was Silent Hill Modeled After Kindergarten Cop October 24th, 2013. Silent Hill was originally created by a team of Japanese developers, so it stands to reason that the devs would look for somewhat obscure sources of Americana on which to base the miscellaneous decorations they had to scatter throughout their sleepy, horrifying town. Now, granted, there is a pretty likely and completely believable explanation for this. In that post a user calling his/herself “Giromancy,” offers little in the way of editorializing, instead letting the images and their blatant similarities, do all the talking. If you don’t believe me, have a look at the images in the gallery below, taken from a recent post on Silent Hill Forum dot com. So really, who am I to doubt the findings of a group of obsessive Silent Hill fans? Never once in all my time there did I ever encounter a single twitching biological monstrosity, but then again, I also never encountered a Terminator robot shouting at a class of 6 year olds. “Nex, Silent Hill is set in a foggy, non-descript town full of supernatural horrors and the physical manifestation of psychological trauma, while Kindergarten Cop is set in Astoria, Oregon! You’ve been to Astoria! You should know the difference!”

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Ready for completely bizarre cross-media linkage? Based on a series of images culled from Konami’s original PlayStation release of Silent Hill and the 1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger film Kindergarten Cop, the two properties apparently take place in the same location. Pyramid Head isn’t evil, he just has a tumor.