UNIVERSAL STUDIOS BRINGING TO
LIFE THE TWISTED WORLD OF “SILENT HILL” AT HALLOWEEN HORROR NIGHTS EVENTS
Partnership Marks the First Time
A Highly-Acclaimed Video Game Franchise Will Become a Haunted Maze at Nation’s
Best Halloween Events
ORLANDO, Fla., UNIVERSAL
CITY, Ca. (July 14, 2012) – This fall, the demented multiverse of the popular horror video
game and motion picture franchise, Silent
Hill, will come to life in a haunted maze at Universal Studios Florida and Universal Studios Hollywood’s Halloween Horror Nights events.
This is not a game.
This is not a movie. This is real. And guests will be tormented by horrifying
creatures from an alternate dimension, including the iconic deformed nurses and
the executioner.
Konami’s
ground-breaking Silent Hill series is
heralded for its psychologically-charged, horrific plot, which is centered
around the disturbing, ash-covered town of Silent Hill – a place where reality
gives way to other dimensions. In this demonic world the physical laws of
nature no longer apply and nightmarish monsters abound. Characters try to
escape back to the safety of reality but constant brutal attacks by disjointed,
knife-wielding beings make survival seem impossible.
Silent Hill has sold more than seven million video game copies worldwide,
earning more than $100 million at the box office with the first film, “Silent
Hill,” and spawning a hit comic book series and graphic novels.
The
highly-anticipated sequel to the original film, “Silent Hill: Revelation 3D”
will be released nationwide on October 26 – just in time for Halloween – by
Open Road Films. The
film is directed by Michael J. Bassett (Solomon Kane, Deathwatch), and features
original cast members Sean Bean (HBO’s Game Of Thrones, Lord Of The Rings) and
Deborah Kara Unger (The Game, 88 minutes, The Samaritan) return in SILENT HILL:
REVELATION 3D, starring along with rising stars Adelaide Clemens (X-Men
Origins, upcoming The Great Gatsby, No One Lives) and Kit Harington (HBO’s Game
Of Thrones) as well as Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix, Disturbia, NBC’s Chuck)
and Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange, The Artist).
Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights events have a more than
20-year history of creating incredibly entertaining, horrifying Halloween
experiences that are consistently rated the nation’s best. The events on each
coast feature highly-themed, disturbingly real, haunted mazes based on
everything from film to nightmares — and streets filled with hundreds of
specially trained “scareactors.”
“Silent
Hill has terrified fans for over a decade by pioneering psychological
horror genre first through video games and moving into films and graphic
novels,” said Careen Yapp, Vice President Acquisitions and Franchise
Development of Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. “Now we’re giving fans the
next evolution of terror as we work with the Universal Studios’ Halloween
Horror Nights teams to create a real world Silent Hill experience just as
terrifying as the fans have come to expect.”
“This is our first partnership with a video game property and we are
very excited to create an unparalleled, all-new level of horror for our
guests,” said Jim Timon, Senior Vice President of Entertainment at Universal
Orlando Resort. “We can’t wait to watch our guests actually walk into the hell
that is Silent Hill.”
“Creating a realistic three-dimensional world based on the disturbing Silent Hill video games and films
elevates Halloween Horror Nights to the next generation of twisted
entertainment. Its incredibly
imaginative and highly unsettling characters and
environments make it the ideal fit for our event where the property can
continue its reign of terror and fully immerse guests in its psychological
horror,” said John Murdy, Creative Director for Universal Studios Hollywood.
For more
information about Halloween Horror Nights at both Universal Orlando Resort and
Universal Studios Hollywood, visit www.HalloweenHorrorNights.com. Watch the Silent Hill
announcement video on both Universal Orlando Resort’s YouTube Channel and on Universal Studio’s Hollywood’s YouTube Channel.
For the latest info on SILENT HILL:
REVELATION 3D, follow @silenthillmovie on Twitter and “Like” the
film on Facebook at:
facebook.com/silenthillrevelation