Silent Hill kinda strikes me as the anti-cosmic horror. Cosmic horror is all about how insignificant and meaningless you are compared to these unknowable forces and entities before whom concepts like good and evil are meaningless. In Silent Hill, however, the unknowable force is deeply interested in you and you personal problems and has a sense of morality and this is a very bad thing for you.
id argue that silent hill is solipsistic horror. the external world and objective reality are removed, and thus any checks or balances on one’s ability to self-regulate or self-calibrate. the threat is entirely in the self turning in on itself. internal conflict is externalized to deadly proportions, and the cosmos is replaced with all the depthless limitations of a mirrored box.
solipsistic horror is definitely the opposite of being meaningless on a universal scale, it’s like, if you were the entire universe that would be worse.
Discussion ¬