Below are video and films related to Silent Hill.

(2001) PS2 | XBOX | PC

Silent Hill 2 (Special 2 Disc Set) (EU)
System: Playstation 2 (PS2)
Released: November 2001 in Europe
Catalogue #: SLES 50382
Purchased: NEW, November 2004
Where: ebay.com

This is the special European edition of the original Silent Hill 2. The two disc edition comes with the PS2 game,a “Making of” Silent Hill 2 documentary dvd, a Silent Hill 2 sticker of James in a hallway with a flashlight (there were 4 different designs available), a Konami competition paper and a manual in English.

The Making documentary DVD by Fun-TV France is broken up into 4 sections:

1) The Making of Documetary:

Backrounds Repulsion and attraction:
Interview with Art director Masahi Tsuboyama

- Creation of the characers Emotion and ambiguity:
Interview with CG and character artist Sato Takayoshi

-Creation of the monsters Something human:
Interview with monster designer Ito Masahiro.

-Music and sounds Under the skin:
Interview with sound director/composer Akira Yamaoka.

- Psychological horror-Eros and Thanatos:
Interview with Producer Imamura Akihiro and some more from Sato Takayoshi.

-Scene decoding Mary or Maria?:
An analysis of a scene the the prison level in Silent Hill 2 and interview with drama director Suguru Murakoshi

2) Trailer: Silent Hill 2 E3, Tokyo Games Show, and a Press Event trailers. This section also contains trailers of: Age of Empire, Metal Gear Solid 2, Pro Evolution Soccer, Shadows of Memories, Silent Scope 2, X Games Skateboarding, and Z.O.E.

3) Art Gallery: pictures of characters, monsters and locations in Silent Hill 2

4) Biographies: Pictures and profiles of Imamura (producer), Sato (CGI director),Yamaoka (sound director), Tsuboyanma (director), Ouraku (scenario writer), Ito (art director) and Murakoshi (drama director)

The DVD also contained two “secret” videos found only by searching each dvd menu with your remote:

- a video of a cool press event in France where members of the press were taken to a Silent Hill decorated house by monster nurses and had a paintball battle.

- a Castlevania Chronicles director’s interview

Art Of Silent Hill (JPN)
Product: DVD
Released: November 2001 in Japan
ISBN #: 4-7753-0010-5 c0876
Purchased: NEW, October 2004
Where: amazon.jp

The Art of Silent Hill is a multimedia DVD containing: 3 art music videos, game trailers, video, game openings,
marketing materials and pictures of creatures, characters, drawings and game settings.

The DVD is divided into 4 sections:

1) Art of Silent Hill: contains two music videos entitled “KI-NO-KO” and “Caramel Mix”

2) Creature: contains a creature centric music video entitled “Furuko” and pictures of monster art from Silent Hill (PS1) and Silent Hill 2

3) Trailer: contains Silent Hill 2 trailers from the Autumn Tokyo Game Show 2000, Spring Tokyo Game Show 2001, E3 2001, and the Silent Hill (PS1) and Silent Hill 2 game openings.

4) Collection: contains the UFO ending from Silent Hill (PS1), marketing materials for Silent Hill 2 (Mousepad,
game packaging, and poster designs), and pictures of characters, drawings and indoor/outdoors areas of Silent Hill 2

The dvd insert is also a small poster of Fukuro with information about the DVD release on the back.

(2003) PS2 | PC

Lost Memories: The Art and Music of Silent Hill (JPN)
Product: DVD
Released: 2003 in Japan
ISBN #: ISBN4-7571-8145-0
Purchased: NEW, October 2004
Where: amazon.jp

Lost Memories: The Art and Music of Silent Hill is a multimedia DVD containing: music, art, trailers from the first 3 Silent Hill games.

The DVD is divided into 7 sections:

1) Sound: This section contains sound tracks from Silent Hill, Silent
Hill 2 and Silent Hill 3. As each new song plays an image from the corresponding game shows in the background.

2) Trailers: The section has the opening and trailers from all three games

Silent Hill:
- Game opening
- 1998 E3 trailer
- Autumn Tokyo Game show trailer
- UFO ending from the game

Silent Hill 2
- Game opening
- Autumn 2000 Tokyo Game show trailer
- Spring 2001 Tokyo Game show trailer
- E3 2001 trailer
- UFO ending from the game

Silent Hill 3
- Game opening
- E3 2002 trailer
- Autumn 2002 Tokyo Game Show trailer
- Gamers Day trailer
- E3 2003 trailer
- “Your Not Here” music video with Heather singing the song

3) Pictures:: Shows pictures of characters and scenes from Silent Hill, Silent Hill 2 and Silent Hill 3

4) Creatures: : Shows pictures of the monsters from Silent Hill, Silent Hill 2 and Silent Hill 3

5) Production Materials: Art and promotional material from each game

Silent Hill: Box packaging, posters, character and some creature designs unused from Silent Hill

Silent Hill 2: Box packaging, posters, and storyboards

Silent Hill 3: Poster designs, magazine covers and character designs

6) Art of Silent Hill : :contains the Ki-NO-KO and FUKURO music videos

7) Bonus:

- Silent Hill 3 Storyboard / Game footage of when Heather finds the gun in the mall.

- Usagi a new music video starring Robbie and the other rabbits from the Silent Hill Lakeside Amusement Park.

(2006) Movie

Silent Hill Experience (US)
Product: UMD
Released: April 2006 in America
Catalogue #: 26015
Purchased: NEW, June 2006
Where: amazon.com

A UMD released as a promotional tie in to the Silent Hill Film. The UMD contains several animated IDW Silent Hill comcs, music from Silent Hill 1-4, music videos, as well as interview and trailers from the games and movie.

Silent Hill (Widescreen Edition) (US)
Product: DVD
Released: August 2006 in America
ASIN#: B000GCFO0I
Purchased: NEW, August 2006
Where: amazon.com

The American DVD release of the Silent Hill Movie. There is unfortunately only one extra feature on the DVD… an hour long “making of” documentary,Path of Darkness: Making “Silent Hill,” that has behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with cast and crew. I hope a special edition is released at some point…

Silent Hill Ultimate Box [Limited Edition] (JPN)
Product: Japanese Dvd and Blu-ray movie
Released: December 13, 2006 in Japan
Catalogue #: PCBE-52450
Purchased: NEW, December 2006
Where: Play-Asia.com

The Japanese DVD and Blu-ray release of Silent Hill. The boxset includes the main feature, 2 bonus discs with an hour making-of footage and an hour comparison between the movie and game series by the Konami
staff, a Blu-ray disc with the original contents of discs one and two. I really wish they released something like this in America.

Silent Hill Guide of Chaotic Town: A Book with Movie and Game information. It’s in Japanese but based on the photos and limited English I think it contains:

- Strategy for Silent Hill 1-3: how to get the different endings and riddle solutions

- World of the Game Silent Hill: Overall description of Silent Hill 1-3, how the games work, character
relations, creature index, item, weapon and save points

- World of the Movie Silent Hill: Character and story information and a section called “Contrast” which I think compares the game and movie but I’m not sure.

Disc 1The movie on DVD

Disc 2 - Features DVD with:

-Path of Darkness: behind the scenes Making of Silent Hill feature that’s also on the American release

-Stars On the Set: Silent Hill 15 minute “Making of” shown on Starz with interviews with the cast, producers and director.

-Trailers – Silent Hill movie trailers and commercial spots

Disc 3 - The Truth of Silent Hill DVD: A Japan only release with:

- Silent Hill Town Map: An interactive Silent Hill town map. Clicking on the various locales plays a scene from the movie at that location

- Original Game: Game overview of Silent Hill 1 and 2, character relations, story, etc. Also contains videos of the Opening movies and Blooper Reel ending from Silent Hill 1 and opening movie from Silent Hill 2

- Game Vs. Movie: features side by side game and movie scene comparison, game and
movie character comparison and game and movie creature comparison.

- Interview: Interview with Akira Yamaoka about the game and movie all in Japanese.

- Additional Products: Silent Hill Origins Tokyo Game Show trailer, Silent Hill Cage of Cradle Digital Comic Preview, Silent Hill Novel (1 & 2) trailer, and Silent Hill 3 trailer

Disc 4Blu-ray version (1080p) of the movie and the “Path of Darkness” feature