Director Christophe Gans returns to the Silent Hill franchise with Return to Silent Hill, and he’s not the only artist with strong ties to the franchise who’s returning for the new movie. The film’s score is composed by the legendary Akira Yamaoka, who of course scored and provided the memorable sound design for the original video games in Konami’s franchise.
IGN Fan Fest debuted a brand new featurette for Return to Silent Hill this afternoon that dives into the film’s sound design and features insights from Gans and Yamaoka. Watch below.
Return to Silent Hill releases in theaters January 2026 from Cineverse & Bloody Disgusting.
The upcoming movie brings the iconic horror franchise back to the big screen. When James receives a mysterious letter from his lost love Mary, he is drawn to Silent Hill—a once-familiar town now consumed by darkness. As he searches for her, James faces monstrous creatures and unravels a terrifying truth that will push him to the edge of his sanity.
Jeremy Irvine is James alongside Hannah Emily Anderson as Mary Crane.
Christophe Gans, who also directed the 2006 feature film adaptation of Silent Hill, wrote the script for the new movie alongside Sandra Vo-Anh and William Josef Schneider.
This will be the third official Silent Hill live-action movie, coming in the wake of the Gans-directed Silent Hill in 2006 and 2012 sequel Silent Hill: Revelation, directed by M.J. Bassett.
