Return to Silent Hill Debuts to Lowest U.S. Box Office Opening in Franchise History

Return to Silent Hill debuted to a lukewarm reception past week, with conscionable $3.2 cardinal coming successful from North American theaters.

Faring a small amended extracurricular the home market, manager Christophe Gans' instrumentality connected the revered Silent Hill 2 storyline was the fifth-biggest movie of the week internationally, making $16 million. $9.3 cardinal of that came from China, wherever Return to Silent Hill has started strong. Overall, the planetary opening play container bureau amounted to $19.3 million.

That home tally of conscionable $3.2 cardinal volition beryllium of peculiar concern, though. Despite Konami resurrecting its fearfulness franchise with 2 well-received games, Silent Hill 2 Remake and Silent Hill f (as good arsenic the divisive Silent Hill: Ascension and upcoming Silent Hill Townfall), Return to Silent Hill had the lowest home container bureau opening of each 3 Silent Hill movies; 2006's Silent Hill generated $20.2 million, and the painfully mediocre follow-up Silent Hill: Revelation conscionable $8 cardinal — which is inactive much than doubly Return to Silent Hill's home opening.

Even taking into relationship the snowstorms blowing crossed North America, implicit astatine Rotten Tomatoes, Return to Silent Hill sits connected an abysmal 18% connected the Tomatometer, and 29% connected the user-driven Popcommenter, making it the worst-reviewed movie of the twelvemonth truthful acold (although, successful fairness, we're inactive successful January!).

Gans precocious said that contempt receiving decease threats implicit adapting the fearfulness bid for the large screen, helium would beryllium unfastened to bringing different instalment to life, insisting: "I volition accommodate different section due to the fact that determination are immoderate that are highly good, thing precise antithetic from the archetypal film, and present Return to Silent Hill. I similar this world, and I tin spot that plentifulness of radical are reasoning I’m doing a beauteous bully job."

The question is, volition helium get the accidental to marque different Silent Hill movie? Perhaps moving successful Gans' favour is the information Return to Silent Hill carries a humble accumulation fund of $23 million.

IGN's Return to Silent Hill reappraisal returned a 5/10. We said: "Return to Silent Hill isn’t wholly without merit. It’s surely a amended follow-up to Cristophe Gans’ archetypal 2006 movie than 2012’s Silent Hill: Revelation, 1 that finds immoderate occurrence drafting connected the creepy imagery and dependable plan of the games. But it’s yet an adaptation that fails to amended upon the root worldly oregon bash thing peculiarly caller and interesting. Those craving a genuinely large intelligence fearfulness acquisition are amended disconnected booting up a mentation of Silent Hill 2."

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Vikki Blake is simply a newsman for IGN, arsenic good arsenic a critic, columnist, and advisor with 15+ years acquisition moving with immoderate of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's besides a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her astatine BlueSky.