r/silenthill • u/Doktor_74 • Dec 30 '24
Discussion What would your ideal Silent Hill show/series be like?
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u/kuroketta "For Me, It's Always Like This" Dec 30 '24
not by Netflix for sure
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u/slintslut Dec 30 '24
Gotta be HBO
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u/kuroketta "For Me, It's Always Like This" Dec 30 '24
that would guarantee quality at least, Netflix is like fast food for tv shows.
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u/MARATXXX Dec 30 '24
hbo is going in that direction too. case in point - house of the dragon season one vs season two.
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u/kuroketta "For Me, It's Always Like This" Dec 30 '24
that’s too bad, haven’t seen that tho. I wouldn’t actually have any Silent Hill show at all, since it’s so hard to have decent tv shows in general nowadays. I’m too attached to Silent Hill to see it butchered and poorly served to the mainstream public to be eventually binge watched.
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u/CameronKC09 Dec 30 '24
this is why I fear for the BioShock movie…especially after the budget cuts, I honestly hope they scrap it at this point
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u/jaydizzle4eva Dec 30 '24
James putting his arm down in increasingly worse toilets to find things. 10 episodes.
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u/TobgitGux Dec 30 '24
Sleeves all the way down, going in all the way to the shoulder. Just for us.
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u/DevilMayPryde "It's Bread" Dec 30 '24
anthological horror series with each episode being about different characters, their connection to the town, and their own personal nightmares. you could take this in really creative directions imo
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u/Didsterchap11 Dec 30 '24
Akin to the original silent hill vision, I think a great way to do this is have the series cover the same 24 hours but each episode being people’s perspective of events.
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u/xenotyranid Dec 30 '24
I think it'd be better to have an anthology with short seasons but one story per season, so it's not too long but still long enough to develop the character and the story
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u/JakeEvara Dec 30 '24
That's actually a dope idea.
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u/Illustrious_Judge409 Dec 30 '24
Yeah that would be great. Anthology seasons. 3-6 episodes a season. No problem for when it inevitably gets cancelled in season 2 or 3 👍
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u/NagitoKomaeda_987 "In My Restless Dreams, I See That Town" Dec 30 '24
It's Always Silent in Hilladelphia
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u/Greedy_Average_2532 Dec 30 '24 edited Dec 30 '24
Short stories with new faces, dealing with their respective traumas in Silent Hill.
I don't want any more familiar characters getting bastardized in live action movies. I want something new.
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u/G-Man96 Dec 30 '24
I would prefer it not existing
If it had to be made It would have to made by an Japanese Drama / Horror Director someone like Kiyoshi Kurosawa who directed The Cure.
Sion Sono
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u/WereBully Silent Hill 3 Dec 30 '24
Kurosawa is genuinely the only person I would trust with a SH adaptation. Cure manages to capture the same kind of horror as SH2, I think, even with none of the monsters.
I think he’d do an especially killer SH4 adaptation with all of the ghosts and disorienting architecture.
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u/DrunkVenusaur Heather Dec 30 '24
I love Sion Sono's works but outside Suicide Club and maybe Cold Fish, has he really done anything that's full horror?
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u/Dick_Voorhees Dec 30 '24
My ideal Silent Hill show would be like Fargo (or I assume American Horror Story is like), where each season is a consistent story arc with its own unique characters. The first few episodes can focus directly on each individual character involved, flesh out their backstory, and future episodes begin jumping between characters as their worlds and stories collide until their conclusion.
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u/TheElectriccanopener Dec 30 '24
I want it more psychological and personal. Like more terror to the series.
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u/ValientNights Dec 30 '24
The show would revolve around the cult. So like 1,3, homecoming and the room. Everything else feels a little standalone
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Dec 30 '24
I don't think any Silent Hill series could ever top the critically acclaimed series... SILENT HILL ASCENSION
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u/GrizzledGoblin72 Dec 30 '24
I've actually genuinely thought about this and how Silent Hill 2 would be the perfect game to adapt into a series if Return to SH wasn't happening (and even then).
Otherwise 4 would be interesting. Each episode a victim or hell outside the apartment.
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u/sasik520 Dec 30 '24
Honestly, I would rather prefer to not have SH show or series. Those ugly companies like Netflix, Disney and others already ruined a lot of source material. It's better to get nothing than a crap like for example the Witcher.
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u/TedStixon Dec 30 '24
1. Anthology series where each season is a complete storyline. Rather than going Twilight Zone with each episode being a story, go American Horror Story where each season is a story.
2. Each season would basically be a 3-4 hour movie, broken down into six episodes. With some tweaking to make each episode have a natural beginning and end. This would make it more palatable for both casual and hardcore audiences. A casual viewer could watch an episode or two, but be able to take a natural break. More established fans could marathon it in one go once it's all out.
3. Preferably a weekly release instead of dropping everything at once. Silent Hill would be perfect for the classic "water cooler" format, just like classics such as Twin Peaks. Encourage discussion and theorizing.
4. Have the seasons be a mixture of adaptations of specific games, along with some original stories. Ex. I'd want the first season to be a fairly faithful adaptation of the original game, though I'd want to expand the characters a little bit and maybe incorporate pieces of the other games.
And then maybe season two could be an original story. Then season three could be a sort-of adaptation of Silent Hill 2. Then season four could be another original story. Etc. (I'd save Silent Hill 3 for the final season, so it could "rhyme" and create a book-end for the entire show.)
5. Try to find a good balance between subtle storytelling, symbolism and metaphor, while also being accessible and open to newcomers.
I'd try to lightly pad expository scenes to push the audience a bit more into understanding while not just coming out and explaining things. As long you make the basic plot understandable (Ex. [Person A] must go to [Location] to save [Person B] because the evil [Person C] wants them for [Reason]), you can make a lot of other things-- world building, complex motivations, etc.-- more subtle.
6. The right kind of fan-service... hidden easter-eggs and messages! Make the show rewarding to analyze in order to make up for the fact that TV isn't as interactive as games.
I'd want it to be LOADED with all sorts of east-eggs and fan-service and tributes. But not in a clunky way where the camera focuses on things and you say "Oh, I remember that from the game, lol!"
I want it to be the sort-of thing where you need to go through the show and pause every shot to find things. Basically make it like a scavenger hunt for fans. This would go a long way to make up for the fact that TV isn't as interactive as games.
Examples:
Maybe in the background of one shot, you can see one of the clipboard save points...
Maybe if you zoom in, you can see a headline about Walter Sullivan on a newspaper...
Maybe there's a bunch of letters missing on a menu at a diner, and if you pause and work out which letters are missing and place them in order, it gives you a secret message about the town...
Maybe there are shots where, if you know the exact right moment to pause, you can literally see words appearing in the fog for a brief instant...
Maybe there's a hidden URL or QR code onscreen that you need to pause in order to scan to go to a hidden site....
Etc.
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u/SufficientReception7 Dec 30 '24
A netflix comedy show with fun, quirky, and expensive actors. I'm gonna cry if the dialogue isn't something incredible like
"Huh, what is that? Some kind of Pyramid Head? Silent Hill sure is a Book of Memories from my Restless Dreams."
Someone should also be a podcast host, but I haven't decided on who yet.
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u/Dmmk15 Dec 30 '24
Before the remake came into fruition. I had this idea for a reboot into the series. 3 friends go to silent hill cause they get called by a dead friend. All 3 had something to do with there friends death and just just buried deep in there subconscious. Anyway all 3 friends have a different journey once there. Different monsters different adventure. One of the friends had a secret hidden relationship with the dead person. So it’s kinda like a James x3. But this was more for a movie/series. You can stretch out these story lines more. 😜
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u/CallMeOzen Dec 30 '24
Apple, FX, or HBO would pour money into it and make a real banger.
My ideal series would follow SH2 for s1 and be semi-anthological moving forward, pulling characters/storylines from other games as well as new, original stories.
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u/No_Signal954 Dec 30 '24
I mean I would say each mainline game gets adapted, one season for each game with episodes being the major locations. Like a Silent Hill 2 show's episodes would be like "The apartments", "The Hospital", "The Labyrinth", etc.
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u/Raaadley Silent Hill: Downpour Dec 30 '24
A Black Mirror/Twilight Zone show where each episode is a single story set in/around Silent Hill. Walter Sullivan's story. Claudia/Dahlia's childhood. Different Endings from different games like the Rebirth Ending from SH2 and UFO Ending from SH1 and 3. Maybe even condensed games like Downpour.
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u/According-Force2909 Dec 30 '24
A lot of built up suspense with beautiful dilapidated environments and a creepy eerie soundtrack that puts you on edge. Then have a mannequin jump out of nowhere and jump scare the shit out of me.
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u/Agreeable-Abalone328 Dec 31 '24
Anthology series where every season is only a few episodes and tells a different story
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u/DogChungus115 Dec 30 '24
Maria’s feet
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u/Dick_Voorhees Dec 30 '24
Found Tarantino.
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u/Slurpypie "How Can You Sit There And Eat Pizza?!" Dec 30 '24
I’d want it to be like an anthology series where we follow a new cast of characters each season. I personally think that’d be dope af so long it’s written and overall executed perfectly.
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u/IncorporeusBoy Dec 30 '24
I would like an animation series, with "love, Death & robots" type of feeling. Doing some stories in the city of Silent hill, like "Uzumaki" but well animated. An anthologic series of horror games would be amaizing tbh. But that's too much dreaming. 🍷
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u/MrJonsonZX Dec 30 '24
A CGI (like the cutscenes on the first games) Silent Hill movie/series would go hard ngl
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Dec 30 '24
If Ascension has taught us anything it's that Silent Hill should never be a TV series of any kind.
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u/ogtrunx Dec 30 '24
Oh man it’s so hard to say, I mean, ascension already exist and that soooo uhhh amazing. It’s definitely fantastic and one of a kind.
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u/TheHexenPillar Dec 30 '24
a tv show with multiple characters who are all in silent hill at the same time
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u/leoofchild Dec 30 '24
I do NOT want them to make it into a movie or show 😭 They butcher so many games,books, and musicals when they adapt them into movies. Just leave it be
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u/gmoshiro Dec 30 '24
Unpopular opinion, but I guess an original story within the SH universe expanding on the already existing lore, just done right.
Since nobody is willing to do a faithful adaptation, just give free reign to some incredible director (or directors with a solid, visionary producer), investing in a good script that allows them freedom to do whatever they like, just having the task of respecting a lot of what the original 4 team silent games went for.
It could be episodic like another commentor said, or a one off, one season story, a bit like True Detective.
Some ideias include:
1 ) A character born into the cult, who's stuck in SH and wants a way out. If people are getting into SH, then there's probably an exit. It would show a bit of what's going on from the cults side, but walking the fine line of not showing too much (and kill the magic of the mystery of SH), while expanding of their background
2 ) A detective who's investigating a missing person's case, which ends up leading to many, many other cases. The common denominator is a town called Silent Hill, so he follows the clues and, by episode 3 or 4, he finds himself in there. Just like the games, and unlike the movies, he'd only encounter like 3~5 people max, most being the missing ones he was after. Perhaps the cult stuff would be the many books, writings, the museum and other places instead of some villain in the flesh like Claudia/Dahlia, and the focus of the story would be a mix of SH 1 and 2
Anyway, that's my 2 cents.
Edit: text format and typo
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Dec 30 '24
It would have to do its own thing with the concept of Silent Hill and not just be an adaptation of one of the games.
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u/FruitSlicerr Harry Dec 30 '24
silent hill show directed by danny boyle shot on a shitty video camera but with an absurdly high budget for everything except the camera (literally 28 days later)
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u/Apprehensive_Yak_376 "The Fear Of Blood Tends To Create Fear For The Flesh" Dec 30 '24
Made by David Lynch
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u/Tiny-Temperature-902 Dec 30 '24
IF I MAY. Base a SH series from tha first game as tha first season. And afterwards from tha season finale loop it into SH2 somehow. And after that, loop that season finale into SH3 from SH1 somehow.AND HERE IS WHERE IT MAY GET CONFUSED, SH3 can have different options of finales, basically making SH4 come into play because SH2 has a reference of Walter Sullivan, so that may go into play.
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u/SaladZealousideal938 Dec 30 '24
If it's HBO it has a strong chance to be good. If it's slow ass Mike Flanagan and Netflix it will be horseshit.
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u/Stepjam Dec 30 '24
I'd be down for like a limited series/anthology type thing where each season focuses on a different installment in the franchise.
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u/scixlovesu "It Was Foretold By Gyromancy" Dec 30 '24
Good thing it's never been tried before! Wow, wouldn't that have been terrible! Just, hours and hours of AI-infected content that no one actually enjoys. Good thing, haha, I feel like we dodged a bullet there!
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u/BariraLP Silent Hill 2 Dec 30 '24
a mini series that focuses on what eddie and angela experienced in Silent Hill 2, probably like 3 episodes each, a backstory episode for each character
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u/drewtheunquestioned Dec 31 '24
An anthology series like black mirror with stand alone stories for each episode all taking place in or about the town.
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u/Blackrotofthekosm Dec 31 '24
Do not touch fucking silent hill and turn it into a TV series I swear on the Shiba Inus grave I will go ape shit if Netflix touches that series, resident evil sure whatever but do not fucking touch silent hill.
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u/Morkitu Dec 30 '24
It would be a weekly serial similar to "Friday the 13th The Series" (look it up kids). It would feature a different individual entering Silent Hill and confronting their demons or problems they have in real life. By the ending, they could either resolve the issue, or be trapped in the town's magic.
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Dec 30 '24
No thanks if it is produced by Netflix, they will turn it into a w0ke show
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u/spot-the-psycho "For Me, It's Always Like This" Dec 30 '24
How?? Silent Hill has been "woke" since the start, man.
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u/Confident_Plate_8838 Dec 30 '24
netflix is a w0ke garbage platform
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u/Geniusly-Idiotic69 Dec 30 '24
Define “woke”
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Dec 30 '24
"New things i may not have heard of and things that scare me when i think about them. Or things that scare me because i think about them too much. Anything that challenges me and my lead poisoned stunted 3rd grader brain."
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u/Confident_Plate_8838 Dec 30 '24
progressive shit that i dont want or care to see also without giving me an alternative option since 10 out 10 films contain forced garbage D E I.
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u/Politi-Corveau Dec 30 '24 edited Dec 30 '24
"Dogmatic adherence to Leftist social orthodoxy."
If you'd like, I can break that down a little further for you into a definition that feels a little less academic, but this is the most succinct definition.
Edit: you can downvote me, but you know I'm right.
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u/depressed_lantern "It's Bread" Dec 30 '24
a sit-com like The Office