Expanded editions that bear the term " director's cut " in their titles include Worms: The Director's Cut, Resident Evil: Director's Cut, Silent Hill 2: Director's Cut, Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut.

These include Gérard Pirès ( Riders, 2002 ), Pitof ( Catwoman, 2004 ), Jean-François Richet ( Assault on Precinct 13, 2005 ), Florent Emilio Siri ( Hostage, 2005 ), Christophe Gans ( Silent Hill, 2006 ), Mathieu Kassovitz ( Babylon A. D., 2008 ), Louis Leterrier ( The Transporter, 2002 ; Transporter 2, 2005 ; Olivier Megaton directed Transporter 3, 2008 ), Alexandre Aja ( Mirrors, 2008 ), and Pierre Morel ( Taken, 2009 ).

Examples include The Uninvited, Dark Water, Gothika, The Ring, The Grudge, The Exorcist, Session 9, Silent Hill, The Others, The Mothman Prophecies, The Blair Witch Project, 1408, The Shining, Stir of Echoes, The Innocents, Frailty, The Changeling, and The Sixth Sense.

In August 2007, Todd Hollenshead stated at QuakeCon 2007 that a Return to Castle Wolfenstein movie is in development which re-teams the Silent Hill writer / producer team, Roger Avary as writer and director and Samuel Hadida as producer.

On August 3, 2007, GameSpot reported that Variety confirmed Return to Castle Wolfenstein and that the writer / producer team that was involved with Silent Hill will be involved with the Wolfenstein project.

It was announced on June 8, 2011 that Korn will be composing the theme song for Silent Hill: Downpour.

Some are more complete remakes where much of the game was changed such as Metroid: Zero Mission being a remake of the original Metroid or Silent Hill: Shattered Memories being a whole re-interpretation of the original Silent Hill.

Confederate States of America | Confederate soldier Silent Sam, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill by John Wilson ( sculptor ) | John Wilson

Confederate States of America | Confederate soldier Silent Sam, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill by John Wilson ( sculptor )

Silent Hill ( 2006 ) depicts death by burning as a punishment in two separate scenes.

The Snow House on Main Street, the Nott House on Westbrook Road, the Taylor Bushnell House on Ingham Hill Road, and the Silent Rose House near the train station are fine examples.

* The Empress represents Alessa Gillespie in the Silent Hill tarot symbology.

Grave of Georges AuricEspecially notable among his film music is the lavishly impressionistic score that he wrote for Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast ( 1946 ); other films include Passport to Pimlico ( 1948 ), Silent Dust ( 1949 ), The Lavender Hill Mob ( 1951 ), Moulin Rouge ( 1952 ), The Titfield Thunderbolt ( 1953 ), Roman Holiday ( 1953 ), The Wages of Fear ( 1953 ), The Divided Heart ( 1954 ), Lola Montes ( 1955 ), Rififi ( 1956 ), The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1956 ), Bonjour Tristesse ( 1958 ), The Night Heaven Fell ( 1958 ), Goodbye Again ( 1961 ), and Therese and Isabelle ( 1968 ).

* Walter Sullivan ( Silent Hill ), an antagonist of the video game Silent Hill 4: The Room

* " Schism ", an enemy in the 2008 survival horror video game Silent Hill: Homecoming

The survival horror video game Silent Hill: Origins contains a segment in which the protagonist must solve puzzles within the " Artaud Theatre ", which is in the town of Silent Hill.

A monster from the 2007 video game Silent Hill: Origins is named after and inspired by Caliban.

The latter four games, Silent Hill: Origins, Homecoming, Shattered Memories, and Downpour, and an upcoming ninth installment titled Silent Hill: Book of Memories have been developed by various external developers.

In 1986, Silent Service won the Charles Roberts / Origins Award for Best Adventure Game for Home Computer of 1985.

Because there is little narrative continuity between the games, there are no canonical endings, except those of Silent Hill: Origins and the original Silent Hill ( due to each having sequels which corroborate one specific ending ).

It is a reduction of " Bouma-shape ", which was probably first used in Paul Saenger's 1997 book Space between Words: The Origins of Silent Reading, although Saenger himself attributes it to Insup & Maurice Martin Taylor.

In some cases a working title may ultimately be used as the official title, as in the case of the films Cloverfield, High School Musical, and Snakes on a Plane ( at the insistence of leading man, Samuel L. Jackson, who joked that he took the role for the working title alone, after he learned the title was going to be changed to Pacific Air Flight 121 upon release ), the television show The Cleveland Show, and video games Quake II, Spore, Silent Hill Origins and Epic Mickey.

* Silent Hill: Origins — " Blow Back ", " Shot Down In Flames ", " O. R. T.

* Silent Hill: Origins

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is a 2001 American comedy film directed, written by, and starring Kevin Smith as Silent Bob, the fifth to be set in his View Askewniverse, a growing collection of characters and settings that developed out of his cult favorite Clerks.

In 1984 bassist Norm Dahlor was recruited to take over for Ron, and the band began to record their fifth album, Silent Scream, with producer Ron Nevison.

Xinran ’ s fifth book, China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation was published in the UK in October 2008.

* Silent Hill: Downpour, the eighth installment in video game series Silent Hill

In the survival horror video game series Silent Hill, the town of Silent Hill fluctuates between the normal world, a foggy version of the town and a dark and dilapidated version of the town called the " Other World ".

* Silent Hill: Homecoming, a 2008 survival horror video game

Genre-defining titles attributed to Konami include the vampire-hunting side scroller Castlevania series, the survival horror Silent Hill series, the action / shooter Contra series, the platform / adventure Ganbare Goemon series, the espionage action Metal Gear series, the console role-playing Suikoden series, the music-oriented Bemani series ( which includes Dance Dance Revolution, Beatmania, GuitarFreaks, DrumMania, and Pop ' n Music, among others ) and the dating simulation Tokimeki Memorial series.

Recent cinematically styled franchises from Konami are the continuing Silent Hill survival horror franchise, and the Metal Gear series, which underwent a public renaissance with Metal Gear Solid.

" The golden age of survival horror started by Resident Evil reached its peak around the turn of the millennium with Silent Hill, followed by a general decline a few years later.

According to IGN, the " golden age of survival horror came to a crescendo " with the release of Silent Hill.

Other major survival horror series followed suit by developing their combat systems to feature more action, such as Silent Hill Homecoming, and the 2008 version of Alone in the Dark.

The series is heavily influenced by the literary genre of psychological horror, with its player characters being mostly " everymen ", in contrast to action-oriented survival horror video game series featuring combat-trained player characters, such as Resident Evil, which is widely regarded as Silent Hills strongest " rival ".

Notable examples include action-adventure games such as The Legend of Zelda, platform games such as Mario and Sonic, stealth games such as Metal Gear, survival horror such as Resident Evil and Silent Hill, and first-person shooters such as Doom, Half-Life and Deus Ex.

Resident Evil in particular created the survival horror sub-genre, inspiring titles such as Silent Hill ( 1999 ) and Fatal Frame ( 2001 ).

Multiple endings also appear in some adventure games ( such as Shadow of Memories ), survival horrors ( such as the Resident Evil and Silent Hill games ), stealth games ( such as Metal Gear Solid ) and platform games ( such as Sega's spin-off game, Shadow the Hedgehog ).

* The 1999 horror game Silent Hill features a young girl, Alessa Gillespie who has powers similar to Anthony, and even is mentioned to have made classmates " disappear ".

" Silent Snow, Secret Snow " ( 1934 ) is Conrad Aiken's best-known short story, often included in anthologies of classic American horror and fantasy short fiction.

The Silent Hill series, pictured above, introduced a psychological horror style to the genre.

Silent Hill in particular was praised for moving away from B movie horror elements to the psychological style seen in art house or Japanese horror films, due to the game's emphasis on a disturbing atmosphere rather than visceral horror.

Jacob's Ladder greatly inspired the horror franchise Silent Hill, including the film adaptation and the video game Silent Hill Homecoming.