jayj said:
Whoa. I have definitely been out of the loop. I had no idea that there was a Silent Hill movie in the works! Can I just say, 'excited, am I?'
😀 They've been keeping it very quiet. In fact, they've been filming it under the title Centralia, to throw SH fans off the scent. The name's an in-joke: Centralia, you Bill Bryson readers might recall, is the real life town in Pennsylvania that no longer appears on modern maps. A fire in 1962 caught the coal seam the town was built on; authorities didn't move fast enough, and the fire spread in all directions underground. The town whistled and carried on like nothing was happening. In the eighties, the earth started collapsing under startled townspeople, and the Government bought them town out - cheaper than trying to put out the fire. There are no feasable plans to put out the fire, and there's at least another hundred years of fuel down there for it. The thing is... there are at least 20 people still living in the town of Centralia, where chasms open up in the streets overnight, and coalsmoke comes from the graveyard crypts. There are still houses, and still services in the church.
They started filming "Centralia" in Brantford, Canada this month, but locals noticed that the sets were for places like Silent Hill Pharmacy, and Pete's Bowlerama. The plot is, briefly - Rhada Mitchell plays Rose, a mother who refuses to believe that her child really is terminally ill. Against her husband's (Sean Bean Baby!) wishes, she decides to drive her daughter to a faith healer. Along the way, she gets lost. The girl runs off into the fog, and Rose follows her into the town of Silent Hill. You can see pictures of the set at
http://www.horror-movies.ca/gallery27.htm
And after all this ranting, I forgot to mention Session 9, which is a terrific obscure horror movie set in Danvers State Mental Hospital, the only real-life place more fascinating than Centralia. Danvers is considered the spiritual home of the medical lobotomy.