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Silent Hill Star Unveils Deleted Scene That Changes Everything You Thought About the Horror Classic

written by Leo Hartwell

January 26, 2026 3:49 am

Silent Hill Star Unveils Deleted Scene That Changes Everything You Thought About the Horror Classic — Image credit: Legion-Media

Return to Silent Hill promises plenty of nightmares, but according to star Hannah Emily Anderson, filmmakers cut an unexpected sex scene from the final version, sparing audiences an even more provocative twist to the chilling horror reboot.

'Return to Silent Hill' is absolutely stacked with nasty, grotesque visuals—par for the course with this franchise. But apparently, there was one sequence that was a bit... different, and not in a way you’d expect from a horror movie: there was almost a full-on sex scene in there too. Yeah, you read that right. And as it turns out, the cast was just as relieved as anyone that it didn’t make it to the final cut.

When Horror Flirts With... Romance?

So, here’s what happened. Hannah Emily Anderson (you probably know her from other horror fare)—she plays multiple characters in 'Return to Silent Hill'—recently spilled the beans about a deleted scene that involved her and co-star Jeremy Irvine. According to Anderson, the sex scene wasn’t just your standard quick-cut horror trope; it was actually choreographed 'almost like a dance,' which is one way to class things up, I guess. Except, the actors really weren’t feeling it.

'I’m laughing because there was supposed to be a sex scene at one point, and it was choreographed like a dance, almost, and they kept having to kind of push it, and Jeremy and I kept being like, "We don’t have to film one today!"'

If you’ve ever wondered how actors handle being stuck in limbo about awkward scenes, here you go. They dodged the love scene for so long, production kept pushing it back, until the team eventually decided (mercifully, in Anderson’s words) to axe the whole thing once they moved on to shoot in Munich after Serbia.

Her reaction? Pretty much what you’d expect from someone who just got out of filming something embarrassing.

'So I think we did celebrate. They told us separately that the scene was being cut, and we were just texting each other like, "Oh my God, thank God. Let’s go out and have some beer and shit!"'

About Those Reviews...

Honestly, even with the missing bedroom scene, 'Return to Silent Hill' is getting pummelled. Christophe Gans is back directing (he did the 2006 original), and, in theory, this one’s inspired by 'Silent Hill 2,' which is generally seen as the best video game in the series. The results are... not great.

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film’s rocking a brutal 9% Tomatometer score—yes, single digits.
Audience reactions aren’t much kinder: a 35% Popcornmeter score, which is officially the lowest for any Silent Hill movie.

After all the waiting, all the hype, it’s currently the franchise’s worst-rated entry. Somehow, I don’t think a weirdly choreographed sex scene would have saved it either way.