Silent Hill’s original composer, Akira Yamaoka, has seen an early cut of Return to Silent Hill and is overjoyed with what he’s seen so far.<\/p>\n
While praising director Christophe Gans’ “great technique and great perception” for what Silent Hill entails during a behind-the-scenes clip from IGN’s Fall Fan Fest<\/a>, Yamaoka revealed his reaction to watching the big-screen Silent Hill 2 adaptation.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n “The first time I watched Return to Silent Hill, I felt incredibly happy as the spirit of Silent Hill was intact,” Yamaoka said. “As a spectator, it moved me a lot despite the total lack of VFX in the version I watched. For me, that meant the movie was a huge success.”<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n Yamaoka also revealed he watched Return to Silent Hill with a temporary soundtrack taken from an unnamed “PlayStation 2 video game” (if we had to guess, it would likely be Silent Hill 2) and decided to compose the movie’s soundtrack himself.<\/p>\n Return to Silent Hill adapts the events of horror classic Silent Hill 2, which sees James Sunderland (Jeremy Irvine) return to the fog-filled town in search of answers after receiving a letter from his dead wife, Mary (Hannah Emily Anderson).<\/p>\n Speaking about his experience<\/a> filming Return to Silent Hill, Jeremy Irvine told Radio Times<\/a>, “It is fun, but playing scared is exhausting. My character is going through a seriously intense mental breakdown and has created this world of monsters around him in his head. It was the hardest work I\u2019ve ever had to do on a job.”<\/p>\n Return to Silent Hill, also starring Wednesday’s Evie Templeton, hits cinemas on January 23, 2026.<\/p>\n From The Legend of Zelda to BioShock, discover more of the upcoming video game movies<\/a> currently in the works. There’s also a guide on Silent Hill f endings<\/a> if you want the full picture in Ebisugaoka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Silent Hill’s original composer, Akira Yamaoka, has seen an early cut of Return to Silent Hill and is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-82237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}