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Silent Hill

Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean, Laurie Holden, Deborah Kara Unger, Kim Coates, Alice Krige, Jodelle Ferland

The eerie and deserted ghost town of Silent Hill draws a young mother desperate to find a cure for her only child's illness. Unable to accept the doctor's diagnosis that her daughter should be permane...( read more  read more... )ntly institutionalized for psychiatric care, Rose flees with her child, heading for the abandoned town in search of answers -- and ignoring the protests of her husband. It's soon clear this place is unlike anywhere she's ever been. It's smothered by fog, inhabited by a variety of strange beings and periodically overcome by a living "darkness" that literally transforms everything it touches. As Rose begins to learn the history of the strange town, she realizes that her daughter is just a pawn in a larger game.

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  • ironclad1609
    October 11, 2009
    ironclad1609
    After so many lousy console or computer game to movie adaptations expectations are accordingly low by now. And this film has quite a few things to offer. The cinematography and production design are wonderfully creepy and atmospheric. Without having played the game it's hard to c...( read more)ompare the stories, but I assume the film makers copied the atmosphere rather well. There are some rather scary and pretty disgusting scenes, a lot of gore, but sometimes the logic does not seem to play much of a role. Some of the dialoges are pretty lousy, too. That being said, the film is far from boring and keeps you watching. In the end, everyone has to decide how they read the ending. That's not the worst thing to say about a film. Decent, but with some wasted potential.
  • ThePublicEnemy
    March 3, 2009
    ThePublicEnemy
    I don't care what people say about this movie. I found it dark, disturbing, and one of the most eerie movies of our time. The visuals were bad at a few times but the movie actually stands strong.
  • puffchunk
    November 29, 2008
    puffchunk
    Nothing like watching some old chick get raped by barbed wire.
  • AgentLexi2132
    November 28, 2008
    AgentLexi2132
    ''Honey, sometimes when you go to sleep you go on a little walk. And sometimes you talk about a place - called Silent Hill...''

    ''I don't remember.''

    ''That's okay honey, that's why we're gonna go there. So you can remember.''

    A woman goes in se...( read more)arch for her daughter, within the confines of a strange, desolate town called Silent Hill. Based on the video game.

    Radha Mitchell: Rose Da Silva

    Sean Bean: Christopher Da Silva

    Big fan of the silent hill games so was generally excited and eager to see the film version.

    Was slightly disappointed with the storyline especially the ending which to me did not feel like a conclusion(sequel please).

    Did like the creatures and the way everything changed into the dark other-world. Sean Bean seemed disconnected from the story, which could of had him searching for his wife in the same reality as opposed to them in alternate worlds. Loved the pyramid head(where did he go?), the nurses in the corridor was very clever.

    Also the haunting sounds and music is kept true to the games and that tune with the guitar is spine tingling.

    Silent Hill, Brotherhood of the Wolf director Christophe Gans has managed to capture the look and feel of the Silent Hill.

    Duplicating everything from the town's fog-shrouded streets and dilapidated shop-fronts to the grinding, rusted nightmare of its 'dark world', Silent Hill immobilizes and formulates the look and feel of the game with perfect clarity and accuracy. Familiar locations are present and correct, the grotesque creatures replicated with horrific attention to detail and even the game's familiar, unsettling score returns to gnaw steadily at the nerve endings. This is a masterful tribute to the game series.

    Did quite enjoy Silent Hill overall so much, but still think the film is no where near as good as the games. Saying that this is the best video game adapt I've seen apart from the Resident Evil series, although Silent Hill was always more psychological relying on ambient sounds and darkness to play against your fears.

    Still...room for improvement if they do a sequel...

    I can't wait to return to Silent Hill

    ''Mother is God
    in the eyes of
    a child.''
  • YouNeedPeopleLikeMe
    November 9, 2008
    YouNeedPeopleLikeMe
    Watchable.
  • QueenBoudica
    November 13, 2009
    QueenBoudica
    Triangle Head Man is awesome.
  • jessibsoccerchic
    November 12, 2009
    jessibsoccerchic
    Looks really . . . FREAKYY! In a good horror way : )
  • blackheart218
    November 12, 2009
    blackheart218
    SPOOKY GOOD FLICK...
  • whosinthenews
    November 9, 2009
    whosinthenews
    If you're an art or sound design buff you might be intrigued by the fine examples in this film, but for the most part the characters are less dimensional than their video game counterparts, and unable to fill even a small portion of the large, vacuous landscape of Silent Hill. It...( read more) seemed to me that Christophe Gans was more preoccupied with recreating dramatic shots from the game than he was in bringing characters to life...and so for two long hours we tread aimlessly through recycled shots of Radha Mitchell walking and looking. The shots ARE beautiful and dramatic but the overkill effect quickly sets in and simplicity is what becomes interesting when available. It's one of the dangers of when directors and cinematographers fall in love with their sets. The horrors themselves suffer from the same problem in that they're merely stylish and nice to look at. Because there's no context or reason for their being, or any significant plot building, the horror factor simply isn't there. Instead of thinking; "oh my god, that's scary", you're thinking "hey, that would make a really cool action figure". Video games like Silent Hill and Resident Evil can get away with thin story lines because the player is alone and in control of the character's destiny, and so that uncertain fate is what sends the tension into overdrive. The films generally fail because in a collective viewing movie-goers are not in control and understand that there's only one outcome. There has to be an added layer, something personal or a connection to the main character, as well as smaller objectives that keep interest levels smoothly sailing from point to point. In the game it's finding clues that accomplishes this, in the film, however, it's just boring.
    Actually, yeah, this movie gets really goofy after about an hour. Demented religious fanatics AND scary children? It's a dream come true (if you love horror cliches).
  • eviltree2000
    November 5, 2009
    eviltree2000
    the nurses with scalpels were wicked







    there was alot of awesome parts in this movie
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