Return to Silent Hill (2026)

Directed by

Christophe Gans

Genre

horror film

Country

Serbia, Germany, United Kingdom, France

Runtime

1h 46m

Rated

R

Rating

5.4 of 10 from 729 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A broken man returns to a strange town after getting a letter from someone he lost. He finds the place changed and starts to doubt what is real.

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What happens

Return to Silent Hill is a 2026 supernatural psychological horror film written and directed by Christophe Gans, co-written by Sandra Vo-Anh and Will Schneider, and produced by Victor Hadida through his Davis Films banner. Loosely based on the 2001 video game Silent Hill 2 by Konami, it is the third Silent Hill film and a reboot. Starring Jeremy Irvine and Hannah Emily Anderson, it follows James Sunderland, a broken man who receives a mysterious letter which calls him back to Silent Hill in search of his lost love. However, he finds a once-recognizable town and encounters terrifying figures both familiar and new, and begins to question his sanity. Plans for a new Silent Hill film adaptation began in December 2006; Gans and former writer Roger Avary had been hired to helm a film adaptation of Silent Hill 2, which was greenlit by Sony. However, the project did not move forward and was instead released as a sequel titled Silent Hill: Revelation (2012) without Gans and Avary's involvement. By 2020, Gans announced he was working on a new Silent Hill film, adapting the events of the second game. The film was greenlit in October 2022, with Gans returning to write and direct the project. An international co-production between France and the United States, the film was shot in Germany and Serbia from April 2023 to February 2024. Return to Silent Hill was released theatrically in the United States by Cineverse and Iconic Events Releasing on January 23, 2026, and was released in France by Metropolitan Filmexport on February 4. The film received negative reviews from critics and has grossed $47.9 million worldwide, with a budget of $23 million. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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