Since the game's release in , other versions of the creature have appeared under different designations, with "Pyramid Head" serving as the umbrella name. There is a supernatural power that surrounds Silent Hill, Maine that has the ability to manifest elements of the unconscious mind. In the early history of the town, Native Americans used this to seemingly communicate with both nature and their dead relatives. Their land was eventually stolen from them by European settlers.
The cult began performing ritualistic executions, wearing red hoods and an executioner's outfit modeled after him. Right before Mary Shepherd-Sunderland contracted a lethal disease, three years before the events of Silent Hill 2 , she and her husband James Sunderland visited the town of Silent Hill on vacation.
One of the locations they visited was the Silent Hill Historical Society , which contained paintings and artifacts relating to the executioners of the town's past. One such painting in particular, "Misty Days, Remains of the Judgement" a stylized portrayal of an executioner standing among caged corpses stuck in James' mind. In the final stages of her disease, Mary fell into a state of agony and became verbally abusive towards James.
It was during this that James smothered her with a pillow to relieve her of her pain and because of his growing resentment towards her. He instantly fell into a state of regret and denial, later receiving a letter of someone claiming to be Mary telling him to find her in Silent Hill. With the memory of killing her having been repressed, he traveled to Silent Hill to find her.
But as he arrived, he found himself in a Dream-Reality state where the darkest elements of his subconscious were manifested into twisted monsters and scenerios. In his search for Mary, he made his way to the Wood Side Apartments where he encountered Pyramid Head, a monster similar to the painting he had observed in the Historical Society years earlier.
He hid in a closet as the creature abused and slaughtered two monsters known as Mannequins. Having evaded Pyramid Head, James encountered it again in the apartment building next door , where it proceeded to attack him. After outrunning the assault, James watched as Pyramid Head fled the encounter. At the apartments, James interrupted a suicidal Angela Orosco , taking her knife before she has a chance to use it, and met Eddie Dombrowski , an often bullied man who was self-conscious about his weight.
After going through the buildings, James followed the letter's instructions and made his way to Rosewater Park. While Mary was nowhere to be found, he met a woman strongly resembling his wife named Maria , who begged him to escort her through the dangerous town.
After searching through the area, they came to Brookhaven Hospital where the town cycled to an even deeper part of the nightmare known as the Otherworld. When they entered the hospital basement, Pyramid Head chased behind them as they sprinted to an elevator.
James managed to make it to safety, but Maria was slaughtered for moving too slowly. The elevator took him to the first floor of the hospital, where a distraught James found a note instructing him to go to the Historical Society, which he had visited years prior. Upon arriving, he descended down a long stairway and kept jumping down mysterious dark holes until arriving in a Labyrinth in an even deeper part of the nightmare.
Finding his way through the Labyrinth, James found Maria mysteriously alive and alternating between Mary's personality and her own. She tells James of the time he and Mary spent at the Lakeview Hotel , and he leaves to navigate his way through the Labyrinth.
Pyramid Head can be found in this area, but he does not pursue James unless directly approached. When James finds Maria again, she has once again been murdered. Making his way out of the Labyrinth, he comes face-to-face with Eddie, who has been driven insane from his experiences in the town.
Eddie tries to murder him, and James is forced to kill him in self-defense. Shaken by the experience, James questions whether Mary really died three years prior as he remembers. James makes his way to the Lakeview Hotel, where he finds a video tape recording of him killing Mary and suddenly recalls his past actions. He encounters Pyramid Head again, this time with a second Pyramid Head by his side.
James realizes that his subconscious created them because of his guilty desire for punishment and decides that he no longer needs them. After a lengthy conflict, the two Pyramid Heads kill themselves, having fulfilled their purpose. A stylized painting of an executioner, similar to "Misty Days, Remains of the Judgement", is present in the Gillespie House when Travis pulls its resident from a fire. Although unseen, the Bogeyman makes himself known to Alex Shepherd in the game's introductory level, Alchemilla Hospital.
His first action is the murder of the doctor who wheels Alex into the operation theater. As the player progresses through the hospital, a grinding noise can be heard periodically.
Presumably, this is the Bogeyman dragging his knife across the floor. As the first level ends, Alex enters an elevator, following his brother. As it comes to a stop, the Bogeyman's knife plunges through the still-closed elevator door toward Alex. The scene then transitions to a truck cab and an awakened Alex, revealing that he was dreaming. The Bogeyman only appears physically twice to Alex.
He is first encountered in a cutscene in the Grand Hotel in Silent Hill; seen dragging his knife down a hallway and being trailed by insects similar to the film , he turns to face Alex, who has hidden himself behind a pile of rubble.
The Bogeyman turns away and continues walking down the hall. Much later, within the Church of the Holy Way , he appears a final time and executes Adam, cutting him in half lengthwise right before Alex's eyes. James Sunderland's Pyramid Head appears in a joke ending in Silent Hill: Downpour , involving various monsters and characters from the Silent Hill games throwing Murphy Pendleton a party.
Pyramid Head cuts the cake. His arrival is heralded by swarms of Creepers. After a few failed attempts to kill Rose and Cybil Bennett , Red Pyramid pursues the protagonists to a church where they manage to escape. A member of the town's cult , Anna falls behind and Red Pyramid brutally murders her. Pyramid Head is a figure of James Sunderland's guilt and inner torment, [78] manifesting from the part of his mind that desires punishment.
Most of the people living there were either executioners themselves or family to an executioner. There are many different thoughts on why he is around. He is a physical manifestation of James' guilt about his sick wife and his. A study of human behavior in social situations and the way we appear to others.
Goffman has employed as a framework the metaphor of theatrical performance. In essence, Alex was doing Pyramid Head's job, and did such a great job of it that the town selected him to become one. His design is altered, obviously to match the screen counterpart.
As he continues on his search to find his younger brother, he discovers. Hack away at an arm now. Coupling the fact that they're either familiar with the executioners or PH himself and my belief that Silent Hill retains the creatures that've appeared in the town, it all adds up.
Hellpainter Bogeyman. He was so beloved that he's continued to appear in the games despite some consternation over it only truly making sense in the context of Silent Hill 2. Pyramid Head, also known as Triangle Head in Japanese or The Bogeyman, is a fictional monster and recurring antagonist from the Silent Hill video game series, introduced in the second installment, Silent Hill 2, as one of the two main antagonists.
A primary antagonist in Silent Hill 2, Pyramid Head may be the most well-known enemy of the franchise. Found insideThis book is full of in-depth close readings of video games that parse out the various meanings to be found in the experience of playing a game. Of the creatures that appear in Silent Hill 2, only Pyramid Head features an "overtly masculine" appearance. Pyramid Head and the twitching, faceless nurses don't quite fit Heather's nightmare because it was never her twisted psyche they were meant to reflect.
Nick Breckon. To everybody complaining about Pyramid Head. Pyramid Head is a character from the Silent Hill series. Homecoming initially seemed off for a number of reasons. Pyramid Head may have been "killed" in SH2, but maybe a conservation of energy type sitch but not "gone".
Last night Konami offered a rather large group of gaming journalists the opportunity to finally get some hands-on with Silent Hill: Homecoming. Nurse statue from Wonder Festival Japan Silent Hill movie. How do you beat the doll in Silent Hill Homecoming? I am unware of the state of this game for the other platforms. Manifestations of secrets bearing oversized weapons and unusual heads.
There's no doubt who the most iconic creature from Silent Hill is, Pyramid Head winning that in a landslide. The game has gone in the direction of the Silent Hill film rather than the previous games in the franchise. That's why I needed you…. It sounds more like you're just nitpicking for reasons since it isn't a complete clone of 1 or 2. He resembles a pale, muscular man covered with a white, blood-soaked robe reminiscent of a butcher's smock.
Especially by Pyramid Head. The Bogeyman is an antagonist who appears in Silent Hill: Downpour. That or they knew about the executioners of Silent Hill's past, and coincidentally came up with Pyramid Head 2. Introduced in the installment Silent Hill 2, they are a type of monster that serve as main antagonists as they stalk. And he only existed as a manifestation of James' guilt over killing his wife. But that seems to. His most outstanding feature is a large red, triangular helmet that covers his head completely.
Hopefully Silent Hill : Homecoming works well on the other platforms like Xbox and Playstation 3. They are retarded autists like watcher.
Gans claimed that replicating the character's head exactly and having the actor move while wearing it proved to be impractical; he noted that, despite the name, Pyramid. While the series continues to inspire. He is also heard in Hell's Descent. The dream sequence doesn't count as its a dream and I can't remember if he's ever heard in the Prison. It's theorized Bogeyman's role is similar to the sinister fairy tale, in which he punishes naughty children. However, in this case, the "naughty children" are actually the parents who were to sacrafice their children.
Although ironically, the only one Bogeyman actually ends up killing is the one Adam Shepherd who wasn't able to go through with killing his son, since the other parents were killed either by the manifestation of their sacraficed children or Alex.
I read in an interview that Double Helix didn't want to use Pyramid Head because they believed he should be strictly a SH2-only character, but they were pretty much forced to use him because of the creatures popularity.
So they worked on a backstory to try to make this Pyramid Head-like creature its own character, which resulted in The Bogeyman. Even if it means losing someone that you love. User Info: drikdeldiablo. I reject the notion that he's there to represent guilt in this game. In SH2, James wanted to be punished, a subconscious wish. Which is why an external, identity-free force manifested to punish him. This is also why James had to come face-to-face with Pyramid Head and confront him.
In Homecoming, Alex doesn't feel guilty at all until the last few moments of the game. Alex not only doesn't confront Pyramid Head, but even more importantly, Pyramid Head never punishes Alex the way he does James. He doesn't ever attack Alex, and in fact actually opens the way for him by chopping dear old dad in half, thus opening a path down into the lair. Because you can go over the games with a fine-toothed comb and find zero evidence of the IDW comics' storylines ever existing.
If they were declared relevant to the series, it would be another matter. User Info: Vandalvideo. I'm torn about Pyramid Head. As I see it, there are two ways that Double Helix can handle this. They can either completely obliterate cannon or they can actually thoughtfully link Silent Hill 2 and Homecoming, which, from what i've seen, is the only possible explanation for Pyramid Head being in Silent Hill: Homecoming.
Let me start off by giving a little background information on what Pyramid Head is. Silent Hill is a town that started it's descent into madness thanks to a number of different cults worshipping various esoteric gods. One of these cults worshiped a being called "Valtiel". Valtiel was the icon of a red organization, which loved the color of blood.
Through the course of the franchise, there are numerous members of this cult appearing with different,twisted visages based on the characters' own nightmares. It is this varied, grotesque form and the different roles that this servant of the red order takes during the different games that has become one of the lesser known facts about the franchise.
One of the most iconic versions of Valtiel is Pyramid Head. Pyramid Head first made his appearance in Silent Hill 2 as a mannequin molesting, giant knife wielding demon spawn which tried to haunt the main Over the course of the game, the character is given a number of choices in regards to his interactions with the demon spawn, some resulting in his death.
Pyramid Head in Silent Hill 2 represented the main character's inner demons. In Silent Hill 3, Valtiel takes a different role. He transforms into this gimp-mask wearing freak that likes to crawl around on ceilings and mess around with nurses. Over the course of the game he likes to sit around and leisurely twist bloody handles and creep out the female lead. Valtiel also arguablly makes a number of appearances in other games, but those appearances are hotly debated by the Silent Hill community.
In the recent film itteration of Silent Hill, Pyramid Head showed up with little to no back story, and was an attempt by the producer to bring in elements of the games. Albeit his attempts were a little misguided. It remains to be seen if the new heads behind the game will be able to think up an ingenious explanation for his presence, but I fear that this is merely another attempt for the creative minds behind the game to squeeze out some semblance of the original titles for their own profits.
I'm optimistic, and I hope that isn't the case, but it is a sad day if it is true. With my fear clearly explained about Pyramid head being in Silent Hill: Homecoming, let me elaborate on how this could be a good thing.
The original Silent Hill creators love to intermingle different storylines. If I wanted to take the time, I could string together every last Silent Hill through a number of lesser characters and places that all have specific things in common.
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