http://www.moddb.com/members/nikkie/blog Subscribe to the Mod DB nikkie blog feed, and get the latest updates as they are posted. en-us Sun, 06 Jul 2008 08:58:21 -0500 Copyright 2008, DesuraNET Pty Ltd Articles 180 http://static.moddb.com/cutoff/images/logos/rss.png http://www.moddb.com/ 120 90 http://www.moddb.com/members/nikkie/blog/silent-hill-film-inspired-by-centralia-pa Sun, 06 Jan 2008 12:54:55 -0600 <span style="font-size: x-small">In 1962 a trash fire accidentally ignited an exposed coal vein in the town of Centralia, Pennsylvania. Over forty years later, the mines underneath the town are still on fire -- and will continue to be for at least another 100 years. The population has been reduced from over a thousand down to just eleven! Smoke and steam continue to pour out of the ground. Sounds like a pretty creepy place? Silent Hill screenwriter (and gaming geek) Roger Avary agrees! He apparently researched Centralia while writing the screenplay; Silent Hill, in the film adaptation, is a West Virginia coal town with the trademark fog/smoke.</span> <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" width="425" height="373"> <param name="width" value="425" /> <param name="height" value="373" /> <param name="wmode" value="transparent" /> <param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZjtmaCI9_wM&rel=1&border=1" /> <embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="373" wmode="transparent" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZjtmaCI9_wM&rel=1&border=1"></embed> </object> <a href="http://www.pbase.com/rsub8/centralia">Pics</a>       articles25498 http://static.moddb.com/cutoff/images/logos/articles.png