Return to Silent Hill
The Official Movie Novelization

Sometimes, it sucks to be a fan of something popular. When public opinion about something you love is overwhelmingly negative, it can be disheartening. That was my experience with the movie. Most said it was really, really bad. I went in with pretty low expectations because I anticipated a lot of ch......more

2.5》 there are not a lot of reviews for this yet so it will be the one time of very few that im actually making a genuine effort with explaining my thoughts on it. there is a lot of commitment into james being an artist and exploration of things that were cut from the movie's release which did help e......more

At the end of this review, you will find my thoughts after watching the film version. I wrote it prior to reading the novelization. In case you want my movie review first, I thought I would preface this with that option. Video game Silent Hill 2 original and remake are in my list of all time favorite......more

This novelization gets the job done, but as it itself concedes, there's not much to work with here: "Then again, nothing made sense in the nightmare factory that Silent Hill had become." (p. 146) Passarella does a solid, pro job of rendering in prose something very similar to the film. Once in a while......more

James receives a letter from Mary Crane, the lover he left behind in Silent Hill. She's in trouble, and things have changed, so he returns to find her. The town is different from what he remembers, ruined and abandoned by most residents. Now monsters stalk the streets, and horrors exist, pushing him......more