When I first heard that Christophe Gans was directing a film adaptation of Silent Hill 2, I was cautiously optimistic. Gans was the mind behind 2006's Silent Hill — arguably the least-awful film in the franchise — and I figured the 20 years he'd had to reflect on the flaws of the first film would prevent his new movie, Return to Silent Hill, from being a total disappointment.

But after leaving a local screening of Return to Silent Hill last weekend, I wasn't just disappointed, I was furious (and frankly, baffled beyond words). In one singular shot of a gravestone, Gans absolutely destroys three of the game’s most pivotal NPC characters. It's hard to decide which of the three gets the shortest end of the stick here, but personally, I think it's fan-favorite Angela Orosco, portrayed by Hannah Elizabeth Anderson in the film.

[Ed. note: Spoilers ahead for Return to Silent Hill.]

Gans' changes to Silent Hill 2's characters start off small. Rather than an unremarkable everyman, protagonist James Sunderland (Jeremy Irvine) is now an edgy, artsy, brooding fellow who wears jewelry, paints weird portraits of himself as Pyramid Head, and smokes weed in his Mustang. Rather than his connection to the town of Silent Hill being a result of the honeymoon he spent there with his deceased wife Mary (Hannah Elizabeth Anderson), Return to Silent Hill portrays Mary as a local resident, who James meets at a rest stop as she's trying to leave town.

You may have noticed that this is the second time Hannah Elizabeth Anderson's name has popped up, and that's because — for reasons I still cannot fathom —........

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