Certainly, the previous movies in the Silent Hill franchise have failed to win much acclaim – with both 2006's Silent Hill and 2012's Silent Hill: Revelation faring negatively with critics.
Unfortunately, early signs suggest this is set to be another critical dud – it sits on just 9 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes at time of writing – and speaking exclusively to RadioTimes.com ahead of release, Irvine explained the difficulties of adapting such a well-loved property in a different medium.
He added that while it is based on Silent Hill 2, writer/director Christophe Gans had taken bits from various different games to create something a little different, explaining that a movie version of a play-by-play of the game simply "wouldn't work as a film".
He added that it was "exciting to see how it all came together", and noted that while Gans's vision always remained the same, the final version of the film "was almost completely different" to the first script he had read.
"The way I saw it was that the character is very much a blank slate for the player to go through the emotions the character is," he said. "And I think when you're playing a video game, you're the one inputting the controller, deciding what happens. So having that sort of two dimensional character works very well in a video game, because you then put that on to you.
Of course, throughout the film, James encounters all sorts of terrifying creatures and antagonists that fans will now extremely well from the games, most of which were brought to life using real actors and prosthetics rather than through CGI.
View Green Video on the source website"I was very impressed by the choreography with all The Nurses in tandem, all sort of synced up," he revealed. "That was very cool to watch. I noticed there was a lot of work to get this entire troupe into that very unnatural way of moving, that on set was genuinely terrifying – until they called cut and then all these lovely Serbian ballet dancers all start giggling!"
"The Armless, which is a really sort of horrific, disgusting creature, is played by the most beautiful Italian dancer," he recalled. "There's a very glamorous, beautiful Italian dancer inside there! So they use a lot of performing artists, lot of dancers."
"I didn't have to do too much of the sort of imagining what was in front of me," he said. "There were obviously some bits. But it was something I know Christophe was very adamant about – where possible doing it for real and not doing CGI. And I think however good [CGI] is, I think you still can tell. So it's really nice to have a real thing!"
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