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Fukuro

Fukuro

Introduction

Fukuro (Japanese for "bag" or "sack") is a 3-minute short film from 2001. It features Pyramid Head and a Lying Figure from Silent Hill 2, the Fukuro Lady, and many monsters from early sketches for Silent Hill 2. The film contains disturbing, surreal imagery. Credits go to Masahiro Ito (series art director) for creature design and to Akira Yamaoka (series composer) for the music. It has been published on Art of Silent Hill, Lost Memories: The Art & Music of Silent Hill, and The Silent Hill Experience. (Source: Silent Hill Wiki)

Audience ratings

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To call this weird would be an understatement. It’s a different, alien experience. Fukoro approaches the cosmic horror levels of incomprehensibility. Watching Fukuro feels like you’re watching something not intended for human audience. This is horror that works not with jumpscares, but with confusion. It’s more of an experience than what we would traditionally call a movie, or an animation. Even as I’m writing this review, I still can’t really wrap my head around this being an official part of Silent Hill franchise, something that Konami looked at and said “Yup, looks alright to me, ship it.” By no means this is meant as derogatory towards Fukuro though, not at all. It just feels so “different”, even despite Silent Hill already being a weird game. The arstyle is video-game like, most l…

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