{"id":436621,"date":"2026-01-27T14:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T14:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/436621\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T14:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T14:32:07","slug":"return-to-silent-hill-debuts-to-lowest-u-s-box-office-opening-in-franchise-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/436621\/","title":{"rendered":"Return to Silent Hill Debuts to Lowest U.S. Box Office Opening in Franchise History"},"content":{"rendered":"

Return to Silent Hill<\/a> debuted to a lukewarm reception last week, with just $3.2 million coming in from North American theaters. <\/p>\n

Faring a little better outside the domestic market, director Christophe Gans’ take on the revered Silent Hill 2 storyline was the fifth-biggest movie of the week internationally, making $16 million. $9.3 million of that came from China, where Return to Silent Hill has started strong. Overall, the global opening weekend box office amounted to $19.3 million.<\/p>\n

That domestic tally of just $3.2 million will be of particular concern, though. Despite Konami resurrecting its horror franchise with two well-received games, Silent Hill 2 Remake<\/a> and Silent Hill f<\/a> (as well as the divisive Silent Hill: Ascension<\/a> and upcoming Silent Hill Townfall<\/a>), Return to Silent Hill had the lowest domestic box office opening of all three Silent Hill movies; 2006’s Silent Hill<\/a> generated $20.2 million, and the painfully poor follow-up Silent Hill: Revelation<\/a> just $8 million \u2014 which is still more than twice Return to Silent Hill’s domestic opening.<\/p>\n

Even taking into account the snowstorms blowing across North America, over at Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>, Return to Silent Hill sits on an abysmal 18% on the Tomatometer, and 29% on the user-driven Popcommenter, making it the worst-reviewed movie of the year so far (although, in fairness, we’re still in January!).<\/p>\n

Gans recently said that despite receiving death threats over adapting the horror series for the big screen, he would be open to bringing another instalment to life, insisting: “I will adapt another chapter because there are some that are extremely good, something very different from the first film, and now Return to Silent Hill. I like this world, and I can see that plenty of people are thinking I\u2019m doing a pretty good job.”<\/p>\n

The question is, will he get the chance to make another Silent Hill movie? Perhaps working in Gans’ favor is the fact Return to Silent Hill carries a modest production budget of $23 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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IGN’s Return to Silent Hill review returned a 5\/10<\/a>. We said: “Return to Silent Hill isn\u2019t completely without merit. It\u2019s certainly a better follow-up to Cristophe Gans\u2019 original 2006 film than 2012\u2019s Silent Hill: Revelation, one that finds some success drawing on the creepy imagery and sound design of the games. But it\u2019s ultimately an adaptation that fails to improve upon the source material or do anything particularly new and interesting. Those craving a truly great psychological horror experience are better off booting up a version of Silent Hill 2.”<\/p>\n

You can find out more about what was and wasn’t changed in the Silent Hill 2 movie adaptation right here<\/a>. We also have a handy list of all the video game movies and TV shows coming in 2026 and beyond<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Vikki Blake is a reporter for IGN, as well as a critic, columnist, and consultant with 15+ years experience working with some of the world’s biggest gaming sites and publications. She’s also a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her at BlueSky<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Return to Silent Hill debuted to a lukewarm reception last week, with just $3.2 million coming in from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337],"class_list":{"0":"post-436621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}