Silent Hill - The Greatest Horror Series of All

The Silent Hill game series is by far the greatest, most complex and probably the most shit-bricks-in-your-pants scariest series ever created. The only thing that even comes close is Resident Evil, which was mostly zombies and shotguns, but now that series has gone to shit with its new and horrible action approach.

Silent Hill is based about events that take place in a fictional town, believed to be somewhere in New England, US. The town has a great history, starting off as native spiritual grounds and then a settlement by the English. However, an unknown plague wiped that settlement out. Sometime after that, the town was rebuilt to be used as a base for the American civil war, and housed a POW camp deep under Lake Toluca, which the town mostly surrounds. The return of the plague lead to the creation of two hospitals (emergency and long term care) and a sanitarium (probably just for the sake of being a scary place). Eventually the town boomed into three fair-sized areas into its modern day version.

The games themselves start to take place around the late 80s to current day. The principle storyline (0,1,3) is about a prevalent cult within the town that practices ancient rituals. They believe that they can revive an ancient "god" so they can have their promised land, and to do so, they produce a child with spiritual power only with the intention to sacrifice her at around age 8. The cult itself is very powerful, with its leaders being experts in the occult and a smartass doctor. They fund their activities via a local cocain-like drug called "white claudia". This activity eventually lead to police intervention, but after the cult managed to kill off several officers, they backed off.

Of course this is a very simple synopsis (mostly of the first game), because the entire series is famous for its details. The storyline is extremely brilliant and not so far off from actual occultic activities. There was a decent movie made for the series too, but sadly its storyline and most of the details were far off from the games (movies are never as complex as games), and the movie was very 'hollywoodized'.

The thing in the picture above is called "Pyramid Head", which is featured in the second SH game and mentioned in some others. It's probably the most popular and scariest thing in any horror game series. What it is, is questionable. Some believe its an apparition that provides reprecussion to a specific character while others believe that it is a sub-deity (one of two).