Okayā¦ Thereās been a bunch of Silent Hill stuff popping up on my dash and I just feel like flailing about something.
So even if youāre not super familiar with the series, if youāve seen anything, youāve seen this guy:
Heās kind of the big boss of Silent Hill 2, and regardless of how much sense it does or doesnāt (mostly doesnāt) make, he appears throughout the rest of the series and the movies. Heās the biggest, baddest, and most overtly malevolent force in the whole of the Silent Hill universe.
Want to know how heās first introduced?
No swell in the music that sounds like someone either tased the entire string section or pushed a percussion cabinet down the stairs.
You just sort of find him behind an unsettlingly out-of-place set of prison bars.
And he just stands there, impotently staring at you while your radio goes ballistic with static. Youāve never seen him before. Youāre not even really sure what he is at this pointā¦ just this reddish shape at the edge of your flashlight beam.
This, my friends, is how you do subtle horror. You make the player do the work for you. Because trust me, at this point in the game (which is a few hours in) your imagination is on overdrive, along with your heart rate and blood pressure.Ā
It remains one of my favorite things about this series. It wasnāt afraid of being oblique and subtle. The creators of Silent Hill understood that horror is probably one of the most voluntary of narrative experiences. You have to suspend the so much belief to get the full experience.Ā
So they have to seduce you. This is a seduction through and through. A tease of ankle under the hem of a very long skirt. They make you want to see more, even as youāre already white-knuckling the controller.Ā
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