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‘Silent Hill’ Special [Safe Room Podcast]
Before diving into this week’s Silent Hill special, please give last week’s discussion on XCOM: Enemy Unknown a listen.
Silent Hill is FINALLY having a moment.
After the tease that was 2014’s P.T., few fandoms have been clamoring for a new main series game announcement quite like this franchise’s faithful. And after last week’s Silent Hill Transmission from Konami, fans will be feasting soon-ish.
Not only was the long-rumored remake of the beloved Silent Hill 2 finally confirmed, but Konami laid out a loose roadmap for the future of the Silent Hill brand. Not one, not two, but THREE spin-off games were announced: Silent Hill: Townfall, Silent Hill f, and Ascension.
Little is known about what these games will entail, but seeing the brand being applied to non-traditional S.H. experiences is exactly the mold-breaking move someone like myself clamors for. And at the very least, not ALL of Konami’s time is being dedicated to more fucking skateboards.
So for this week’s episode, Neil and I dig into these announcements and more to discuss the series’ bold and seemingly bright future. – Jay Krieger
Safe Room is a weekly horror video game discussion podcast with new episodes every Monday on iTunes/Apple, Sticher, Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Linktree for additional streaming services.
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A Plague Tale: Requiem
Scorn
Prodeus
Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed.
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The Children, Eleanor!
We’ve spent the month of July discussing the badass babes of Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Terror (listen), the queer undertones of Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut (listen), and the “very bad weather” of Jan de Bont‘s 1996 tornado film, Twister (listen).
Now we’re wrapping up our de Bont double bill with his less successful 1999 special effects remake, The Haunting!
In the film, sheltered Eleanor (Lili Taylor) is recruited for a dubious insomnia study at the infamous Hill House by questionable doctor David Marrow (Liam Neeson). Along with bisexual Theo (Catherine Zeta-Taylor) and horny Luke (Owen Wilson), Nell is terrorized by annoying ghost children and the monstrous owner of the house, Hugh Crain (Charles Gunning).
As the spectral hauntings become more and more severe, Nell must uncover her tenuous connection to the previous victims before the terrible CGI swallows her and the other participants whole.
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Episode 292 – The Haunting (1999) feat. Kill by Kill
Answer that insomnia study ad and beware of griffins because we are checking back into Hill House for our second Jan de Bont film in as many weeks: 1999’s “don’t call it a remake,” The Haunting.
Joining us for an episode that immediately goes off the rails and into angry rant territory are five-time returning champions, Patrick Hamilton and Gena Radcliffe of Kill By Kill podcast.
We have *lots* of questions: where’s the bisexuality? Why is the body count so low? How much should Steven Spielberg be blamed? If Crain is part of the house, then why isn’t he everywhere? Oh, and who the hell called Eleanor in the first place?!
Poor Lili Taylor…and poor us!
Cross out The Haunting!
Coming up on Wednesday: We’re wrapping up July with our first foray into Alejandro Jodorowsky territory with his pseudo-quasi remake of Psycho: 1989’s Santa Sangre!
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