Return To Silent Hill Is The First Truly Terrible Movie Of 2026

Return to Silent Hill, a live-action movie adaptation of Konami’s beloved Silent Hill 2, hits theaters later this week. Early evaluations for the horror flick are as scary as any monster from the video games.

First introduced in 2022, Return to Silent Hill releases on January 23. It isn’t linked to the previous two Silent Hill motion pictures, though it was directed by the primary movie’s Christophe Gans, and is as a substitute a unfastened adaptation of the PS2-era survival horror traditional Silent Hill 2. Advertising for this movie has been minimal to say the least, partially as a result of it appears the executives concerned realized it wasn’t nice again when it wrapped filming in 2023, and the film is just seeing the sunshine of day after that current Silent Hill 2 remake did so effectively. However after the delay and the shortage of selling, maybe this can be a excellent horror movie? Nope. Doesn’t look like it.

As of January 21, there are 15 reviews for Return to Silent Hill on critic aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. And the brand new film has an abysmal seven % Tomatometer rating. For these not accustomed to Rotten Tomatoes, that ain’t a fantastic rating. The truth is, if this seven % rating holds, Return to Silent Hill will go down as one of the worst-reviewed movies ever. Yikes.

The final consensus from critics is that whereas elements of Return to Silent Hill look nice, the movie is a boring, sloppy, complicated, and (maybe worst of all for the style) not-very-scary film a couple of major character that’s laborious to narrate to and who appears extra confused than terrified.

“This highly effective survival horror story has been became an unpleasant, laughable adaptation that proves that perhaps we must always’ve by no means gone again to Silent Hill,” mentioned Ross Bonaime over at Collider.

“Christophe Gans’s movie does away with all of the psychosexual nuance of Silent Hill 2,” claims Justin Clark at Slant Journal. 

“I discovered the expertise tough to take a seat by and nonsensical from second to second, with its confounding story and shoddy CGI matched solely by its lack of leisure worth,” mentioned critic Brian Eggert.

For the time being, there is just one non-rotten rating, from Dominic Baez on the Seattle Occasions, and it doesn’t learn like a loving endorsement of the film. As an alternative, it looks as if Baez discovered many of the film unhealthy, however loved the ending. The tip credit are apparently very “trendy.” When critics are praising your credit and never a lot else, that’s a nasty signal.