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Living a nightmare: digital compositors bring the frightening digital world of Silent Hill to life in the film adaptation of the game series.(back drop)(Alain Lachance of Mokko Studio )(Interview)

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Silent Hill began in 1999 as a survival horror video game from Konami that has since grown into a lucrative franchise; currently, there are five Silent Hill video games. Each unfolds like a movie, with several possible endings, as a person's choices during play determine which ending is revealed. Recently, Sony Pictures released a film version of this eerie series, maintaining its visual film-noirish design depicting dark, fog-enshrouded, decaying, environments enhanced by chilling (and very sudden) sound effects and thoroughly unnatural, disturbing, and surreal/absurd creature designs. The main storyline, cinematography, and set designs for the live-action film adaptation ...

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