Here’s Silent Hill: Revelation’s Mannequin Monster explained. Survival horror was a niche video game genre before the success of Resident Evil in 1996, which not only spawned a franchise that still runs to this day, but inspired a wave of future horror games. Titles like Dino Crisis and Parasite Eve were hugely popular, but the series most often seen as the rival to Resident Evil is Silent Hill. While the former was a gleeful ode to cheesy b-movies, the Silent Hill franchise often relied on psychological chills and symbolism for its scares.
Silent Hill 2 is considered one of the best games ever developed and has been praised for its gameplay and rich, thematic storyline. Video game to movie adaptations are rarely greeted with great reviews, and while the Resident Evil movie series with Milla Jovovich often met with scorn by fans and critics, they were extremely successful too. The 2006 Silent Hill movie is regarded as one of the better game to movie ports, and perfectly captures the atmosphere and production design of the source, even though the story and dialogue were often lacking.
Fans may have liked a direct Silent Hill 2 video game adaptation for a sequel, which didn’t ultimately prove to be the case. Instead, Silent Hill: Revelation cast Adelaide Clemens as Heather Mason, the teenage daughter of Sean Bean’s Harry. They’re on the run from the cult seen in the original movie, who – to cut a long story short – want to bring Heather back to complete a ritual that will bring their deity to life. The sequel borrows heavily from the Silent Hill 3 video game too, but sadly, the movie is a hot mess with a complete lack of scares and a convoluted story, plot-hole filled storyline.
Silent Hill: Revelation does at least try to contribute to the series by adding a few new creatures of its own, such as the Mannequin Monster. This is a spider-like monster is made up of mannequin heads and limbs, and either cocoons its victims or transforms them into mannequins. The creature only appears in one scene when Heather has made her way into Silent Hill’s Otherworld. She tries to help another trapped woman escape from the monster, but this luckless victim is ultimately captured and taken back to its lair. While no such creature exists in the Silent Hill 3 game, it appears to take inspiration from a scare involving a bleeding, headless mannequin from that entry.
Silent Hill: Revelation may have been a major letdown, but the Mannequin Monster at least gave it one cool sequence. Fans of the video game side of the series have been consistently disappointed in recent years, especially after publisher Konami canceled Hideo Kojima’s planned sequel Silent Hills in 2015. While rumors of a new PS5 sequel persist, it has yet to be officially confirmed. It appears the Silent Hill film series is also on ice, as there have been no signs of a third movie or reboot being put into development.
