Scariest/freakiest part of the game?

[Spider]

I would have to say the mirror room. That just messed with me something serious.

[UberRetnuh]

Definitely the mirror room. But everyone talks about the mirror room so much, I'd almost like something else...I'd say the mirror room, and the scene where you turn on the bath tub. I think that was in SH 3, anyway.

[mrpaku]

If not the mirror room, I'd go with the mannequin room. That girl's scream is just terrifying the first time you hear it, and then you walk back around the corner and that headless manequin is bleeding...one of the people I was playing this with and trying to explain Silent Hill too, after regaining her composure asked, "Wait, does that mean someone died in the real world?"
*shiver*

[shootzombies]

Ya I would go with the mannequin room for a quick scare. But the mirror room would definitely have to be the scariest scene in the game because u get that trapped feeling. Another really scary part is the Nightmare Hospital with its strange pulsating walls (thats also where the mirror room is mind you).

[silentmoon]

I thought the haunted house in the amusement park was pretty freaky. It made me and my dad jump a few times  . The killer red light fog made me panic.

[Spider]

I thought the haunted house in the amusement park was pretty freaky. It made me and my dad jump a few times  . The killer red light fog made me panic.

I hate that fog. I really hate it.

The dead guy dropping down in the haunted house scared my wife to no end.

Whenever I play a new Silent Hill she wants to "play" it with me. She loves the games but just doesn't want to control the character. So I will be strolling along, getting info and killing a few enemies when something like the cat in the locker room from V.1 will happen. She will scream like mad, which I for some reason never expect (probably too engrossed within the game) and she makes me lose the controller.

I have lost more boss fights that way.... 

[UberRetnuh]

I actually have a friend like that. Not that he gets scared at the games. But he wants me to play them while he watches. I've never really understood it...

[ingloriousrat]

I have a friend almost the same way... he wants me to play and refuses to touch the countroller because he's too scared. He won't admit it of course but I can tell. He's the type that will(and has) throw the controller at the tv because he jumped.

[shootzombies]

I have a friend who was amazed at how in the Silent Hill Historical Society in SH2 I just went right through that hole in the wall to the Prison. He thought that if he were me he would have just stood and stared down the hole for a while to afraid to work up the courage to continue. Pretty funny if you ask me. He's even seen me play every SH game and just like you ingloriusrat he will not play the game he will only watch me play.

[mrpaku]

I thought I was the only one who dealt with that...it seems to me like Silent Hill is one of the only games I've ever really consistently played for an audience. Something about it just draws that kind of train wreck, horror movie appeal you can't really look away from.

No one but me can pick up the controller and actually play this thing, it's kind of funny. My best friend actually gave it a shot once; I tried to guide him verbally through the school in SH1, trying to get him to move quickly across the courtyard so he wouldn't get jumped by mumblers. I think he got all the way to the kids locker room before throwing down the controller, shaking, and saying "F*** that, you play!"

In high school my friends and I used to make it a weekend thing to drink and smoke and have them sit behind me as I played Silent Hill. One of my friends actually started crying as I got jumped by those green monsters in the sewer; granted, it was under the influence of substances, but there's something to be said when a game can make your "hardcore" friends sob quietly in the background.

My girlfriend and I actually bonded early in our relationship over playing SH4 for a large group of people in a dorm room and her yelling at me every time I didn't adequately bring down one of those twin heads or dogs (although heaven forbid SHE should grab the controller).