Back in 2006 when the blu-ray disc format was still in it’s infancy, Sony Pictures released a string of first-generation titles to help roll out the format to customers. Among them was director Christophe Gans’ 2006 unorthodox yet celebrated and visually lush videogame-to-film adaptation Silent Hill. Loosely based on the hit Konami survival horror videogame series from an original screenplay co-written by Gans and Quentin Tarantino collaborator Roger Avary, Silent Hill as a film is among the most faithful and closest to the source videogame-to-film adaptations ever attempted. Relying heavily on real sets and actors inside costumes with CG rendering kept to a minimum, the filmmakers even went as far as using all of the music from the games composed by Akira Yamaoka instead of commissioning an original score.



