Hot on the heels of Resident Evil doing big numbers at the box office, another legendary horror game is headed back to the big screen. Silent Hill is getting a full feature film reboot, and it's being put together by the producer of Resident Evil. Collider broke the news this week.

If you're keeping score at home, Silent Hill has had a complicated film history. In my book, the 2006 adaptation by Christophe Gans is one of the better video game movies ever made, all fog and rust and air-raid sirens, closer to a nightmare you couldn't wake up from than a typical mid-2000s horror flick. The 2012 sequel, Revelation? I'd call it less good. We'll leave it there.

So a clean-slate reboot is either exactly what the franchise needs or yet another trip around the same haunted block. But that's the gamble with Silent Hill, right? The games work because the horror is psychological, personal, a rusty manifestation of whatever guilt the protagonist is carrying around. Movies tend to want monsters you can point a camera at, and Pyramid Head is nothing if not a monster you can point a camera at. The trick is keeping the sad, fog-soaked soul underneath the jump scares.

The timing tracks. Resident Evil did well for itself, and Hollywood has a long memory for what worked recently. Video game adaptations in general are in the middle of a genuine hot streak, from The Last of Us to Fallout to everything else landing on streaming. Studios finally figured out the source material was never the problem. The respect level was.

Details are thin for now. No cast, no director, no release window. Just the commitment that this thing is real and moving. Given how these projects go I'd expect a director announcement to be the next real signal, because that'll tell us whether we're getting a mood piece or a creature feature.

Me, I'm cautiously hopeful. Silent Hill deserves a great movie. The first one came close, closer than most game adaptations ever get, and the games themselves, especially Silent Hill 2, contain some of the best horror writing in the medium. Whether this reboot can tap into that or just gets lost in the fog, we'll find out. I'll be first in line either way. Dark theater, loud crowd, air-raid siren. That's the good stuff, and a laptop can't replicate it.