Silent Hill: The Short Message has not been warmly received. Shifting focus away from the eponymous town in favor of an economically depressed town in Germany, and following a teenage girl as she receives text messages from her dead friend—an internet-famous graffiti artist—Silent Hill: The Short Message feels more like a zeitgeisty Netflix show than something classically Silent Hill. With little attention paid to the world’s details, lore, or atmosphere, instead focusing on long recurring corridors with scripted scare moments, Silent Hill: The Short Message could be an unfortunate omen for the future of the franchise.