‘Return To Silent Hill’ Is The Worst-Reviewed Video Game Movie In 19 Years

Will Return to Silent Hill Be the Biggest Flop of 2026? — Video-Game-Turned-Horror-Series Roasted

Now, when a film adaptation of a super-popular video game arrives with years of built-in anticipation, there is always a big cloud of criticism over its head. Return to Silent Hill, the latest cinematic interpretation of the cult horror series, promised to give that eerie psychological dread and atmospheric terror that made the original games such fan favourites. Instead, early reviews say that the film may be in danger of becoming one of the bi…

‘Return To Silent Hill’ Is The Worst-Reviewed Video Game Movie In 19 Years

Return to Silent Hill is in theaters this weekend, arriving with the lowest Rotten Tomatoes score in nearly two decades of video game movies.

Return to Silent Hill Movie Review

This is a spoiler-free review of Return to Silent Hill, which opens in theaters on January 23, 2026.Return to Silent Hill doesn’t necessarily have the highest bar to clear as it ambles its way to theaters in this winter lull period. Hollywood may have finally figured out how to do a proper video game adaptation on the streaming side of things, but decent video game movies are still pretty few and far between. And while director Cristophe Gans’ 2…

‘Return to Silent Hill’ works — even though it shouldn’t

The film adaptation of Silent Hill 2, directed by Christophe Gans, is a mixed bag that comes together in the end, writes our reviewer.

Point of No Return

Return to Silent Hill by Hope Madden When I used to pick my son up from his dorm, invariably there was a video game on whether anyone was playing or not. Mainly it was badly articulated characters delivering stilted, unrealistic but wildly dramatic dialog on an endless loop because, with no one playing, there was no action. I could also be describing Christophe Gans’s twenty-years-in-the-making sequel, Return to Silent Hill. I did not care for t…