H.R. Giger painting influence in SH4.

Post by **deadhorses** » 24 Apr 2007

i was in a local bookstore the other day when i stumbled across an H.R. Giger book, and noticed this painting.

http://verotika.org/giger/Landscape_XVIII.jpg

looks extremely similar to the baby haunting in the apartment to me.

Post by **The Necronoir** » 24 Apr 2007

Very good point! I'm a long-time Giger fan, so I can't believe I didn't pick up on it before. It is indeed very similar, and Giger does a lot of work with deformed baby-like faces such as those in it.

Well done.

Post by **Dream_Demon** » 24 Apr 2007

Wow, that's pretty creepy. Looks really similar to that haunting.

Post by **larcont** » 24 Apr 2007

well, its look similar, good apport, i didnt know Giger works but well i do now.

Post by **sam_silent_hill_freak** » 24 Apr 2007

that is pretty freaky..

Post by **Pariah** » 26 Apr 2007

nice catch on the similarity

i remember reading in a developer interview a while back about the inspirations for the hauntings (most of them being obvious) and i remember them discussing how the baby haunting was supposed to be a link back to the image of the apartment as a "mother", but the similarities of the image are uncanny.

Post by **swedish** » 26 Apr 2007

That's what the baby haunting looks like?

Holy shit.

Post by **the silent O** » 28 Apr 2007

Oh man, your right deadhorses.
I never really notice it. I had a H.R Giger callender with that very image in it. I never noticed it untill now...

Post by **deadhorses** » 30 Apr 2007

The Necronoir wrote:Very good point! I'm a long-time Giger fan, so I can't believe I didn't pick up on it before. It is indeed very similar, and Giger does a lot of work with deformed baby-like faces such as those in it.

Well done.

that's what i do.

haha.

i've never really looked at gigers work before, but i saw he had a book and turned right to that page.

there was another painting that was almost the same, another landscape painting but i don't remember the number on it.

i think the one i linked was XVIII, but i remember seeing another extremely similar one.

Post by **Nemi79** » 29 May 2007

Wow, that's freaky. It is indeed very simular to the babyhaunting in the game

Post by **Nocturne** » 30 May 2007

wow, I never tought about that, but I've seen the picture few times... great find!

Post by **sweet_weeping_silence** » 30 May 2007

Nice find!! Aren't they just so adorable? *squeeze*

Post by **kingkyde** » 30 May 2007

Whoa they are similiar.

Post by **Saourealis** » 07 Sep 2007

I'm a fan of Giger as well, and I really never even gave the baby wall a second thought, not in the game, and not on my calendar which has a picture of it in it. (You'd think that would've made me think, looking at it for a whole month.)

Excellent observation!

Post by **LanceS133** » 07 Sep 2007

I noticed this the first time I saw it in the game as well. Giger creates some insane work.

Post by **AdamMosh** » 29 Nov 2009

H. R. Giger influenced silent hill 4 the room because I found a painting from the artist very similar to the gigantic worms that appear in the game.

Post by **Lemex** » 29 Nov 2009

H.R Giger has long influenced horror, not just Silent Hill.
He drew the creatures in the film Alien afterall.