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The Silent Hill 2 Remake Is a Thrilling Act of Translation
The reimagining of one of the best horror games may make you feel less cynical about video-game remakes.
Grand Theft Auto III laid the blueprint for the now-ubiquitous open-world genre; Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty served peerless stealth action primed for the post-truth era; Ico delivered a mythic fairy tale to rival those of Studio Ghibli’s. The developer’s highs are undeniable (2017’s Observer delivered pitch-perfect cyberpunk shocks starring none other than tears-in-the-rain cyborg Rutger Hauer); its lows are arguably best left in the past (2021’s The Medium fumbled a story of intergenerational trauma). Certainly, we’re a long way from the reinvention that can occur in a good movie remake — for example, Luca Guadagnino’s take on Dario Argento’s 1977 horror classic, Suspiria(another of Silent Hill 2’ s heady, art-school influences).
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