#the term lynchian gets thrown around a lot for any work that is a bit surreal but it is 100% the case with the og silent hill games | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

petr1kov · 2 days ago

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i've said this before but truly the number 1 reason why i couldn't love silent hill 2 remake despite thinking it is an otherwise fine game is the fact that it does not feel lynchian at all to me. like the most unsettling thing about this horror game to me was seeing how it was very often an almost 1:1 recreation of the scenes from the original in terms of script but executed very differently in tone. and because i almost never see other people talking about this it makes me feel like i'm going crazy lol

#now with the death of lynch and all this talk about how influential and unique his work is i started thinking about this again #the term lynchian gets thrown around a lot for any work that is a bit surreal but it is 100% the case with the og silent hill games #they had other influences too obviously but david lynch movies + twin peaks were always the biggest ones in terms of style #they set out to do something very lynchian from the start and aren't very subtle with the references lol #and the remake did not feel like that at all to me. i think it was probably the direction but the delivery of the lines changed drastically #the situations remain surreal but the lines are delivered with a more naturalistic vibe. it feels like a regular hollywood movie #and it's really not just a matter of the new cast being more professional. the control and alan wake games have professional actors #but still get that strange delivery across because it's what they want to get across. i don't think it was the goal with sh2remake #which is not necessarily bad but it is very very weird how little that's remarked upon while it gets praise for being faithful adaptation

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