Midwich Elementary School

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The Entrance of Midwich as seen in Silent Hill.

Midwich Elementary School is a fictional school from the Konami's survival horror video game series Silent Hill. Midwich Elementary only appears in the first Silent Hill game and is one of several settings throughout the game. The school is also a setting in the 2006 adaptation Silent Hill.

1 Location
2 History
3 Creatures and groups encountered
- 3.1 Groups
- 3.2 Creatures
4 In other media

[edit] Location

Midwich Elementary School is located in the southwest corner of Old Silent Hill. Although it is presumed that there is more than one school in Silent Hill, Midwich is the only school that is actually shown in the series.

[edit] History

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Before the strange occurrences in Silent Hill, Dahlia's daughter Alessa Gillespie was a student at Midwich and so was Lisa Garland.

In the 2006 film adaptation Silent Hill, Midwich is the school Alessa Gillespie attended. After being accused of being a witch, Alessa runs off, crying, into the girl's bathroom. There she encounters the school's Janitor Colin. Presumably she was then raped by Colin, causing her to be even more afraid of men, influencing the creation of demons such as Pyramid Head and The Janitor in the darkness of Silent Hill.

[edit] Creatures and groups encountered

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The following are descriptions of creatures and groups which are encountered by the protagonists in Midwich Elementary.

[edit] Groups

The Miners (Movie Continuity Only) - The Miners are a trio group from The Order. They are first encountered by Rose before the second round of sirens go off releasing The Janitor from his lair within the girl's bathroom.

[edit] Creatures

The following is a list of creatures that have been known to appear in Midwich Elementary.

Pyramid Head - (Movie Continuity Only) - Pyramid Head's first appearance is outside the girl's bathroom. Rose notices him after falling out a window. He is shown dragging a body (presumably one of the miners) and creepers crawling around him.
The Janitor - (Movie Continuity Only) The Janitor is found in the girl's bathroom. This is where he allegedly raped Alessa. In the film, he is found tied up in one of the stalls with barbed wire and is severely mutilated.
Mumblers - (Game Continuity) The mumblers represent the mean school-children that tormented her (as shown in their aggressive behavior) . These children wield knives, and make strange noises that are actually the slowed-down laughter of children.
Stalkers - (Game Only) Harmless black shadows of small children. They squeak and run around, sometimes tripping. Though they can't affect the protagonist, they still trigger the radio. In early versions of the game, they could attack and be harmed, but this was removed in the final.
Creepers - (Movie and Game Continuity) Thousands of creepers crawl around Pyramid Head in Midwich Elementary School where he first finds Rose. They are later seen swarming Silent Hill cult members and finally crawling through the hole made by Pyramid Head to attack Cybil and Rose. They are originally seen lurking around the school in Silent Hill 1 and around the town in Silent Hill 2.
Split Head - (Game Continuity Only) The Split Head is a dragon-like creature that is conjured by Alessa from a memory of a children's fairytale. The Split Head is located and is fought by Harry Mason beneath the school in Silent Hill 1.

[edit] In other media

The name Midwich is taken from the 1957 John Wyndham novel The Midwich Cuckoos which also inspired the 1960 film Village of the Damned.

Midwich also appears in the 2006 film Silent Hill. The school becomes one of the film's settings when Rose starts searching for her missing daughter Sharon, throughout the school.