WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for Return to Silent Hill.

The Silent Hill franchise is not known to be particularly romantic. Based on Konami’s 1999 survival horror game, Christophe Gans’ 2006 film is a post-apocalyptic nightmare in which a frightened mother wanders a monster-filled netherworld, desperate to find her adopted daughter.

An oft-forgotten 2012 sequel continues this plotline while diving...