Return to Silent Hill (2026) Movie Review

Return to Silent Hill (2026) IMDB

Return to Silent Hill (2026) movie poster.

I was hesitant to watch this when I saw the general overall bad reviews. but I liked the games, so I thought I would give this a shot. Little did I know that there would be a maze in the movie ! Our main character is searching for his lost love in Silent Hill. Seems like a poor location to visit…unless you are making a horror movie. The visuals in this film and the tone are good. The costumes and make-up took a lot of time. Unfortunately that time should have been spent on the script, because as I sat down to explain the movie I was lost. And so I went to research the plot and it is just confusing. Not in a Mission Impossible way that might be enjoyable, but rather a - let’s film some cool things back to back and make a movie out of it somehow kind of way.

Anyway, a little over 45 minutes into this film our character is chasing a young girl and ends up entering a maze surrounding a building. Nothing too special. It leads to a meeting with another character. It is all convoluted. Flashbacks, flash forwards, dreams, hallucinations.

I give this a 4.5/10. I wanted it to be over.

Here is a trailer for the film:

Eden Log (2007) Movie Review

Eden Log (2007) IMDB

Eden Log (2007) movie poster

I am a big fan of Sci-Fi horror flicks. All Sci-Fi is pretty good to me, but when things get scary because of technology that is a bonus for me. This French film starts with a man waking in an underground location with no memory of why he is there or knowing where he is. Seems he is in an underground cave system that has been designed to trap those in it. One of the characters describes it as a maze. If that wasn’t enough bad news there are some really nasty creatures down there that seem to like killing people. So avoid them and try to escape.

We get a dark, dirty, underground world and our main character trying to figure out what is happening. Lots of technology. A laboratory experiment gone wrong.

I was able to watch this in English instead of French which helped, but I still found this lacking a bit. I wanted more answers and a more developed script for the idea. You learn more and more in the end but I was unsatisfied. I give it a 5/10.

Check out the trailer:

Weekly Hard Maze #23

Each Saturday I post a new hard maze with all of them sitting in the Hard Maze Archive. I will try to post a variety of maze types to keep things interesting.

Weekly Hard Maze #23 - Weaving Maze

Solution will be in the archive. Download is below.

Weekly Hard Maze #23 - Weaving Maze
download the weaving maze

If you solved that maze quickly and want to try some of my archival hard mazes, these posts should do the trick:

One Maze - Many designs - experiment #22

This is a continuation of my maze design experiments. Read about it in post #1, One Maze - Many designs, and so on with a new post every Friday.

The original maze:

Simple Maze

I saw that Bing Image creator had some new pre-set image creators so I tried them again to see how or if it improved. For each generation I uploaded the original maze.

  • For the first maze I asked Bing to create a fun background. It went with a beachball, star, rainbow, cloud, flowers, leaves, and a birthday cap. Unfortunately it de-mazed the maze.

  • The second maze used the Impressionist button, but it de-mazed the maze again.

  • The third maze used the item Spotlight button, but it de-mazed the maze.

  • The fourth maze used the Oil Painting button, but it de-mazed the maze.

  • The fifth maze I asked Bing for an Americana background and not to touch the maze….but it de-mazed the maze (again).

Bing really can’t make a background without touching the foreground. It loves to de-maze, mazes. Bing could make a background for mazes, but not with the foreground maze in the equation, leave it out and add it later yourself ! AI is still having problems with this !