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[Trailer Tracks] Dissecting the ‘Silent Hill: Revelation 3D’ Trailer
Movie commercials offer us a great service; they not only show us which upcoming movies look good, but also which ones to avoid. And if one looks closely, they often reveal more than intended about the film in question. In honor of this profound art, I give you TRAILER TRACKS, an examination of upcoming movie commercials: What they say, what they don’t say, and what they say on accident about the product being sold to you, the excited chump.
Today’s Entry:
Silent Hill: Revelation 3D (Dir. Michael J. Bassett)
Introduction:
For those who don’t know, Silent Hill is a place where everything is misty and broken and gross. It is filled with weird, contorted versions of people who want to kill you. Then, a siren goes off and it gets worse. Instead of being misty, everything loses its paint and lots of stuff turns into chains. All the weird contorted bad guys are still there, but now in greater numbers. And they’re led by a guy with a Cloud Strife-sized sword and a triangle for a face.
The Setup:
We automatically find a ton of stuff to sort through and establish here, as the offered trailer information regarding the first film seems a bit off. Most notably, the last film ended with the heroic mother and daughter team living with ineffectual Sean Bean through some kind of out-of-sync parellel dimension which let them see but not interact with him, like they were damned from our reality.
Now we inexplicably have Sean Bean as a single father to Fake Carey Mulligan, who we assume is the girl from Silent Hill part 1. The mom’s just not around. We learn that they’ve been running from something for six years (First film — 2006; Second film — 2012). So the continuity exists somewhere between the first Silent Hill movie and a complete reboot. I doubt this is an oversight. Reality warping events are afoot.
Because they’ve been running for six years (from what, we don’t know), Fake Carey Mulligan seems a bit odd. At first she’s tortured and prickly and defensive, but then we also see her at school over-sharing her family’s weird story. She doesn’t resemble the little girl from the first film, but that could just be hair dye. Ironically, she does resemble her mother from the first film (as well as Carey Mulligan). That might not be an oversight either. In any case, she’s being haunted by Silent Hill nightmares.
The Problem:
This is the other part I don’t understand. According to what we see, Silent Hill wants Fake Carey Mulligan to come back for some reason. But that doesn’t appear to be much of an issue since we see Silent Hill manifest itself all around her at school. So why does she need to go anywhere? Maybe only the wimpy Silent Hill can do that, and she must go to the actual town to get the “Winter is Coming” version.
Obviously, she doesn’t want to go to Silent Hill since it’s kind of a crappy town and she may or may not have bad memories of the time she may or may not have visited it as a child. So Silent Hill fights back by kidnapping all the men in her life. This would be a good time to point out that not only does this girl have Eddard Stark for a father but John Snow for a boyfriend. Game of Thrones clearly emerges as an accidental theme. Maybe if we’re lucky, every time Silent Hill turns into worse Silent Hill someone will scream “Winter is Coming” and then get their head cut off.
With her fellas kidnapped, Fake Carey Mulligan has no choice but to return to the warm embrace of Silent Hill. If we’re lucky this will happen at the film’s twenty minute mark. But when are we ever lucky? The first film was overlong and ponderous; it stands to reason this one will be overlong and ponderous as well. I’m calling it at the one hour mark instead.
The Solution:
Despite all the wacky sequel/non-sequel stuff going on, we still have Deborah Kara Unger as the creepy old Silent Hill lady who warns people of things right when it’s too late to warn people of things. She mentions that Fake Carey Mulligan has the power to kill some demon, so clearly she has some unique power and connection to Silent Hill’s weirdness. That makes sense, if anything makes sense. Wasn’t she just the figment of a murdered little girl’s imagination or something in the first film? And didn’t the tortured little girl also invent Silent Hill? It looks more and more like this will be a battle between two things that only exist in some poor kid’s comatose brain. I guess I really don’t care, so long as Fake Carey Mulligan fights Triangle Face.
There’s no indication whether the crazy religious people from the first film will affect the plot, thankfully. The whole thing seems a bit loaded already: We know Fake Carey Mulligan is going to visit Silent Hill. We know she’s going to run away from monsters. We know she’s going to get and likely ignore advice from Deborah Kara Unger. We know she’s going to try to save her dad. We know she’s going to try to save her boyfriend. Hopefully, we know she’s going to fight Triangle Head. And that’s after all the opening stuff. If much else happens, they’ll have to turn this into two films each with extended home video cuts.
My prediction: Fake Carey Mulligan defeats Triangle Face but only by unleashing the T-Virus. Just before succumbing, she is saved by Milla Jovinavinavinavich. Thus, Silent Hill and Resident Evil coalesce into one giant meaningless, continuity-free franchise.
Summation:
I’m seeing the hell out of this. I found the first film bad but refreshingly perplexing. The monsters look awesome. And I love how little I understand of this trailer. This movie may be totally stupid and awful, but it does not seem short of wacky ambition, and I always applaud that.
Ghostface is back on the big screen this weekend… well, sort of… with the release of Scary Movie, which marks the Wayans brothers’ return to the horror spoof franchise for the first time since Scary Movie 2 back in the day. It’s likely to be the talk of the horror community for the weekend, but don’t overlook the other six genre movies that were freshly unleashed today.
Here’s all the new horror that released on Friday, June 5, 2026.
The horror spoof franchise is back with Scary Movie now playing in theaters!
Marlon Wayans (“Shorty”), Shawn Wayans (“Ray”), Anna Faris (“Cindy”), and Regina Hall (“Brenda”) reunite for the new Scary Movie, with the cast also including Dave Sheridan, Lochlyn Munro, Cheri Oteri, Chris Elliott, Jon Abrahams, Damon Wayans Jr., Gregg Wayans, Kim Wayans, Benny Zielke, Cameron Scott Roberts, Heidi Gardner, Olivia Rose Keegan, Ruby Snowber, Savannah Lee Nassif, Sydney Park, and Felissa Rose.
Twenty-six years after outrunning a suspiciously familiar masked killer (“Ghostface”), the Core Four are back in the killer’s crosshairs and no horror movie IP is safe…
Scary Movie will slash through reboots, remakes, requels, prequels, sequels, spin-offs, elevated horror, origin stories, anything with the word legacy in it, and every “final chapter” that absolutely isn’t. A whole lot has changed in the horror genre since the Wayans Brothers were in charge of the franchise; their involvement ended with Scary Movie 2 back in 2001!
Michael Tiddes (A Haunted House) directs Scary Movie 6 from a script written by Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, original Scary Movie director Keenen Ivory Wayans, Craig Wayans (Scary Movie 2), and Rick Alvarez (A Haunted House).
From IFC, shark attack movie Chum is now available on Digital.
Alice Eve (Haunting of Queen Mary) stars in shark attack movie alongside Eric Michael Cole, Jim Klock, Elle Haymond, Lisa Yaro, Johnny Gaffney, and Sarah Siadat.
This one sounds very similar to last year’s Dangerous Animals…
Here’s the plot: “A newlywed couple joins friends on a Mediterranean yacht excursion, only to find themselves caught between a predatory shark and a psychopathic killer in their midst-transforming a sun-drenched escape into a fight for survival.”
Jonathan Zuck directs Chum, from a script by Jonathan Zuck and Joe Leone.
Samara Weaving (Ready or Not 2: Here I Come) and Kyle Gallner (Strange Darling) come together in Carolina Caroline, a sexy crime thriller now playing in theaters.
It’s not a horror movie, mind you, but it’s worth a mention here all the same.
Kyra Sedgwick (Family Movie) and Jon Gries also star in the romantic crime thriller.
Director Adam Carter Rehmeier’s film stars Samara Weaving as Caroline Daniels, whose desire to leave her small Texas town brings her into the orbit of a charismatic con man (Kyle Gallner), and together they weave a path of crime and passion across the American Southeast.
Adam Rehmeier previously directed the films Dinner in America and Snack Shack.
Tom Dean wrote the screenplay for Carolina Caroline.
Similar to Steven Spielberg’s upcoming big screen blockbuster Disclosure Day, Signal One explores humankind’s enduring question: what if we aren’t alone in the universe?
The sci-fi thriller is now available on Digital.
Isabelle Fuhrman (Orphan), Josh Hutcherson (Five Nights at Freddy’s), David Thewlis (Harry Potter), Raoul Bhaneja (Possessor), Emma Ho (“The Expanse”), and Dennis Quaid (The Substance) star in Signal One from director Jonathan Sobol (The Art of the Steal).
When tech billionaire Sam Houston (Quaid) hires the brilliant computer scientist Annika (Fuhrman), she ventures to an isolated facility run by the brilliant, nihilistic creator of LITTLEMOUTH, a machine which can communicate with alien intelligence.
Annika soon learns some humanity-altering facts: that we are not alone in the universe, that alien intelligences are communicating around us at every moment, and that we are likely too primitive to even remotely understand what they are trying to tell us.
When the goal of the endeavor shifts from listening to talking back, the project rapidly devolves into chaos. With contact comes consequences, and soon Annika and the team must work to ensure the very survival of our species.
A schoolyard dare becomes an urban legend in the creepypasta-inspired horror anthology The Summoning. The indie film is now available on Digital from Brainstorm Media.
“A babysitting gig becomes a nightmare of urban legend when three teens summon Baby Blue. Survival depends on uncovering the past to escape a mother’s wrath from beyond the grave.”
Felipe Vargas (Rosario, Hive), Sergio Gonzalez, Brandon Piskorik, Corey Benson Powers, and Brian Sepanzyk direct the segments. Valeria San Martín, Justina Ceballos, Daniela Flombaum, Nannu Spannauss, Agustín Olcese, and Giovanni Onetti star.
The Summoning is written by Camilo Zaffora.
Happy Death Day actress Jessica Rothe stars as a mom struggling to keep her grip on her sanity and memory in the mind-bending Affection, now available on Digital at home.
In Affection, “Afflicted by a mysterious condition that resets her memory, Ellie becomes trapped in a cyclical nightmare with a man who claims to be her husband. She soon must uncover the horrifying truth of her existence—before she forgets it all again.“
Joseph Cross (“Big Little Lies”) and Julianna Layne (“Chicago P.D.”) also star in the sci-fi horror thriller. Affection marks the feature debut by writer/director BT Meza.
Daniel Kurland wrote in his review out of the film’s premiere, “Affection is steeped in existential questions and fears that plague modern society, while it embraces the ethos of the ’80s through bold body horror. Add to that Rothe’s revelatory performance, and Affection is a hidden gem that will connect with your mind, body, and soul.”
Lucile Hadžihalilović’s latest dark fairy tale, The Ice Tower, loosely reimagines Hans Christian Andersen’s fable “The Snow Queen,” and it’s now streaming on Shudder.
In the ’70s set film, “Jeanne, a 15-year-old orphan, witnesses the shoot of a film adaptation of the fairy tale The Snow Queen, and she becomes fascinated by its star Cristina (Marion Cotillard), an actress who is just as mysterious and alluring as the Queen she is playing.“
Clara Pacini stars as Jeanne. August Diehl and Marine Gesbert also star in The Ice Tower, and look for a cameo from director Gaspar Noé (Climax, Irréversible).
“For me, The Ice Tower solidified Lucile Hadžihalilović’s place amongst the most fascinating creators of fairy tales today,” said distributor Yellow Veil Pictures co-founder Joe Yanick.
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