Kleinigkeit noch zum "Filmtrailer": Die Machart machte mich schon stutzig und auch die Credits am Ende...ein wenig Stöbern auf der Seite machte schnell klar: dieser "Filmtrailer" ist mehr ein Injoke von Mean Time Prod. und eine Art Kameratest, der zu einem quasi fiktiven Trailer wurde:
This one's for the fans of the wildly popular horror-survival video game series of the same name. Obviously, we're fans too, since we used the camera tests for our next movie as an excuse to create the SILENT HILL (TRAILER). For gamers, there are plenty of in-jokes. Everyone else will enjoy this chilling "movie" trailer, too.
Or maybe it's the gamers, those with a vested interest, who will need a boost contextualizing this bad boy. Admittedly, knowing the intent of any form of expression helps one to gauge its punch, be it a poem, a painting, a joke, or in this case, a fake movie trailer. And even though it shames us all to so openly announce the aim of the SILENT HILL (TRAILER), know that we do so only with the hope that you will enjoy it. Think of it as a mini John Carpenter film (Escape from New York, The Thing, Ghosts of Mars). Its serious tone respects the genre while its self-awareness gives it a playful edge. Mean Time's unauthorized "movie" trailer was made for the fun of it, and that's what we want you to take from it.
The concept for the SILENT HILL (TRAILER) came from a combination of ideas by producer Jason Clark and director Michael Mongillo's wife, Eloise. Eloise (who does not play action/adventure video games, but thoroughly enjoys watching others play while she shouts out directions) joked that in Silent Hill (especially Silent Hill 2), as one maneuver one's character, literally, deeper and deeper into an array of dangerous, spooky and puzzle-filled environments, the gamer's response to the ongoing option (paraphrased), "Would you like to jump down this hole?" should be changed from "Yes" or "No" to "Hell yeah!" Since the game offers no other way to propel one's character forward, save jumping down said bottomless holes, a "Hell yeah!" selectable is the obvious choice. And so, from Eloise's insightful observation, Jason suggested that if a Silent Hill movie were ever made it'd be a "phat" teaser trailer if a group of bedraggled people were standing around a bottomless hole and posed this question to each other, to which a deadpan, "Hell yeah!" would be the reply. This line of dialogue would then be followed by a smash-cut to the obligatory title-card, "Silent Hill - Coming Soon."
When you take a look at Mean Time Productions' SILENT HILL (TRAILER) you will plainly see that the concept grew from there. It now incorporates many iconic scenarios and environments that are unique to the vast Silent Hill universe. To add to the scope of this homage, only the game series' original music and sound effects were used. Again, you don't have to be a Silent Hill freak to enjoy our trailer, but it helps.
Mean Time Productions extends an enthusiastic THANK YOU to all of the kind people who endured the long hours and bitter cold to be a part of this ambitious homage. We sure had a weekend's worth of fun making it. The unified hope is that we will all get to make another movie together soon. Right on!
Silent Hill Credits:
The Wanderers
Mr. Innocent ... Taylor Warren
The Lost Girl ... Stacy Potter
Paranoid ... Jason R. Clark
The Residents
The Guide ... Dick Boland
Tough Guy Poet ... Thomas Edward Seymour
Trouble ... Karen Warren
Michael Mongillo ... Final Boss
(Director / Producer / Writer / 2nd Unit Cinematography)
Jason R. Clark ... Boss
(Producer / Concept / 2nd Unit Cinematography)
Taylor Warren ... Cutter and Noise
(Editor / Sound Designer / Location Sound / Digital Effects)
Derek Dudek ... Shooter
(Cinematographer - Night 1)
Bryan Capri ... Shooter
(Cinematographer - Night 2)
Jackie Zbuska ... Blood and Gore
(Special Effects Makeup and Design / Set Gore / Makeup / Hair / Costumes)
Peter Bradley ... Graphics
(Title Animation / Digital Effects)
James Charbonneau ... Gamer
(Key Grip / Stunt Coordinator / Location Sound / Lots of Other Stuff)
Todd Dzicek ... Gamer
(Best Boy / Weapons Safety / Location Sound / Lots of Other Stuff)
Matt Fador ... Gamer
(Production Assistant / Location Sound / Lots of Other Stuff)
Jennifer Washburne ... Gamer
(Production Assistant / Runner / Lots of Other Stuff)
Tech Support:
DEL Imaging Systems, LLC
HB Communications, Inc.
Hale Manor Productions
Eloise Mongillo
Sunrise Pictures, LLC
Shot in Meriden, Cheshire, and Waterbury, Connecticut, USA
SILENT HILL (Trailer)
© 2004 Mean Time Productions, LLC
Hat also nichts mit dem kommenden Film von Christoph Gans zu tun.
