{"id":150525,"date":"2025-11-20T17:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/150525\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T17:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:36:07","slug":"the-new-return-to-silent-hill-trailer-invites-you-to-face-your-inner-demons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/150525\/","title":{"rendered":"The New ‘Return to Silent Hill’ Trailer Invites You to Face Your Inner Demons"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just because October is in the rearview doesn\u2019t mean we can\u2019t get another horror film trailer. And as far as Konami<\/a> is concerned, November is prime Silent Hill time. More specifically, a closer look at the official trailer for director Michael Gans\u2019 upcoming Silent Hill 2 movie, Return to Silent Hill<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Return to Silent Hill sees the original 2006 Silent Hill film<\/a> director\u00a0undertake the herculean task of adapting\u00a0Silent Hill 2\u00a0(arguably the best\u00a0Silent Hill game;\u00a0argue with a wall). In it, James Sunderland (played by Jeremy Irvine of Warhorse fame) entered the secluded, foggy, eponymous town in search of his wife, Mary (Hannah Emily Anderson). What he gets is horrors as well as a reckoning with his deep-seated transgressions as a so-called wife guy\u2122. Joining Irvine and Anderson in the delightfully macabre horrors are Evie Templeton as Laura<\/a>, Pearse Egan as Eddie Dombrowski<\/a>, and Robert Strange as \u201cRed Pyramid\u201d (a.k.a. Pyramid Head<\/a>).<\/p>\n

What we can say positively about the upcoming film, beyond what the trailer has hyped as a must-watch, is that its soundtrack will bang unequivocally. This comes thanks to the return of series composer Akira Yamaoka. In fact, in an exclusive clip<\/a> from a couple of months back, Gans stressed he wouldn\u2019t have said yes to making the movie had Yamaoka not been involved with scoring it. For folks who don\u2019t know ball when it comes to Silent Hill, that was the most tapped-in thing Gans could\u2019ve said to engender confidence that the director understands how integral the soundtrack is to the games\u2019 DNA\u2014especially Silent Hill 2<\/a>. With the tidbit of information that Gans used Death Stranding<\/a> developer Kojima\u00a0Productions\u2019 Silent Hills\u00a0PlayStation 4 demo, P.T. (which\u00a0was swiftly cancelled), as a reference point<\/a> for Return to Silent Hill, it bodes well for the film living up to everyone\u2019s lofty expectations. Lord knows the wigs on James and Maria aren\u2019t.<\/p>\n

In other adjacent Silent Hill news, boy, has this franchise turned the ship around. Since Return to Silent Hill was first announced during Konami\u2019s big Silent Hill showcase livestream back in 2022<\/a>, the psychological horror series has had more bases loaded and home runs (remembering it could still make games after years of no motion) with games like developer Bloober Team\u2019s Silent Hill 2 Remake<\/a> as well as NeoBards Entertainment\u2019s Silent Hill f.<\/a> The former of which performed so shockingly well that there are now plans for Blooper Team to spin the block and remake the original Silent Hill<\/a> video game. Likewise,\u00a0Silent Hill f\u00a0is getting\u00a0adapted into a novel<\/a>, and its lead actress,\u00a0Konatsu Kato<\/a>, has become an overnight YouTube sensation, racking up over 1.7 million views in her first-ever livestream playing through\u00a0<\/a>Silent Hill f<\/a> and getting jumpscared at every turn. We are so back, fogposters.<\/p>\n

Time will tell whether Gans\u2019 return to making Silent Hill films will similarly bear fruit now that he won\u2019t be lifting parts of 2 like Pyramid Head<\/a> for referential scares and will now have the giant lummox actually terrorize James on the big screen.<\/p>\n

Return to Silent Hill releases in theaters on January 23, 2026.<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just because October is in the rearview doesn\u2019t mean we can\u2019t get another horror film trailer. And as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,61,60,85264,270,53823,53824],"class_list":{"0":"post-150525","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-konami","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-return-to-silent-hill","14":"tag-silent-hill"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}