Return to Silent Hill Lands on Digital Just 4 Weeks After Releasing in Theaters

Return to Silent Hill initially released to the lowest home container bureau opening successful the franchise's history. It has since grossed implicit $5 cardinal successful the U.S., portion the planetary container bureau has pushed it to a full gross of implicit $42 million. According to Variety, the movie was produced connected a fund of $23 cardinal earlier selling costs.

The latest Silent Hill movie has landed connected integer platforms astir precisely 4 weeks aft its merchandise successful theaters, a comparatively speedy turnaround. The film’s integer pricing astatine the clip of penning is besides much tenable than astir different integer releases we’ve seen this year, with the afloat acquisition listed astatine $19.99 and renting disposable for conscionable $9.99.

While IGN’s reappraisal acknowledges that “those craving a genuinely large intelligence fearfulness acquisition are amended disconnected booting up a mentation of Silent Hill 2,” I respect immoderate instrumentality (or imaginable fan) getting a small curious. The movie retains the game’s halfway premise of James Sunderland ‘returning’ to Silent Hill successful pursuit of his wife, Mary. Most of the game’s halfway characters besides appear, though with immoderate peculiarly absorbing casting and flashback decisions. All to say, there’s a premix of faithfulness and revisionism successful this peculiar adaptation.

One spot of the film, astatine slightest according to our review, is the craftsmanship that went into recreating Silent Hill's atmosphere, aided by the instrumentality of Akira Yamaoka arsenic the film's composer. Director Christophe Gans has much precocious claimed that helium was forced to edit the movie down to nether 2 hours, with hopes of 1 time releasing his afloat Director’s Cut.

Otherwise, the Silent Hill franchise has surely ramped up implicit the past mates of years with Bloober Team’s Silent Hill 2 Remake arsenic good arsenic Konami’s astir caller release, Silent Hill f. Another caller game, Silent Hill Townfall, is slated for merchandise sometime successful 2026.

Streaming and Physical Release Details

Return to Silent Hill volition beryllium released successful 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD connected March 27, with each editions present up for preorder. The movie was distributed by Cineverse, which itself hosts a escaped ad-supported streaming work that has a peculiar absorption connected niche fearfulness movies. It’s unclear whether Return to Silent Hill volition yet beryllium disposable done that service, oregon whether Cineverse volition prosecute streaming licensing elsewhere.

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