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Silent Hill

Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean, Laurie Holden, Deborah Kara Unger, Kim Coates

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.
  • Marischa2
    December 23, 2009
    Marischa2
    I really liked this film, the end was not really a happy ending and they are making a silent hill 2 for 2010.
  • eryri
    December 17, 2009
    eryri
    One of the better video game adaptations. Silent Hill is very atmospheric, unsettling and eerie with some very disturbing scenes. The main creature of the movie Pyramid Head looks fantastic. The CGI at times looks bad and the running time could have been cut slightly. It stays mo...( read more)stly faithful to the actual game. It's creepy, well written and the creatures that Rose comes across in Silent Hill are frightening. A really good horror movie which will please those that played the game.
  • kramcup
    December 17, 2009
    kramcup
    I like this movie for some reason. Maybe cos of the retarded baby-looking zombies.
  • larryknodell
    December 16, 2009
    larryknodell
    MOVIE OK THE GAME FNKICKS ASS
  • lopcar1993
    December 11, 2009
    lopcar1993
    Silent Hill is one of the most popular and groundbreaking horror video game franchise of all time. All other horror survival video games today follow the protocol that Silent Hill set forth. Now in 2006 director Christopher Gans and Tristar pictures deiced to adapt the popula...( read more)r video game series into a film and while they follow the story of the first game pretty well. They did change some details from the game like the lead character is no longer author Harry Mason but a new lead created for the film Rose DaSilva the new concerned parent of Cheryl which doesn't please me as a fan of the game but does put an interesting twist on this old fan favorite.



    This 2006 adaption follows the story of Rose DaSilva as she tries to help her disturbed daughter get over her unnatural sleepwalking spells where she keeps uttering the name of a town, Silent Hill. So Rose, against the wishes of her husband Chris, takes Cheryl to the eerie ghost town in desolate west Virgina. But as she enters the vicinity of the town something happens and she is involved in a car crash, when Rose awakes she finds her daughter missing. Rose sets out to find her but little does she know that there is more to this dark town then meets the eye and it may not be deserted as she once thought. Now Rose must find her daughter while unwrapping the mysteries of, "Silent Hill".


    Silent Hill is eerie, haunting, shocking, mysterious, visually impressive and at sometimes rather mind blowing. Grant it it's not one of the greatest horror films of all time, but it is one of the better video game adaptions to come out in recent years. It has the air of mystery in the first half that most good horror films have and it also has the scares which modern horror seems to lack theses days that's the good now the bad is that the acting and the script don't quite hold up under the mind bending visuals and horror. But the thrills and chills of this film save it from being a complete and utter waste of time. All in all "Silent Hill" is a very effective horror machine with an interesting and intriguing story muddled down by a bad script and terrible direction, which held it back from being what it truly could have been. Utterly terrifying.


    Radha Mitchell tries hard and in some parts of the film comes out on top, but her performance was dragged down by the poor direction by Christopher Gans and the terrible script. Mitchell does well at looking terrified but when she has to be serious and keep her cool she kind of falls short, which is forgivable most of the time and at others it is not. Laurie Holden is utterly terrible in this, she really drags the film down with her over serious performance as the tough female cop you just laugh most of the time she is on screen with the macho stuff she says sounds so dull and stereotyped it's hilarious, but she does try hard and I will give her that. Sean Bean is great as usual as the husband to Mitchell's character he brings style and heart to a rather cold and dark film, which in most cases works and in some it just slightly kills the story. But Bean is a welcome addition to the story. The cast does well for the most part but in some parts they just drag along and make the story less terrifying but given the material it is no surprise there. But I will give them the benefit of the doubt and say this in there favor, they tried hard and came out on top and made this film a little less shallow and dull than what it would have been.



    "Silent Hill" is a shocking horror thrill ride at best but it's like a car if you don't take care of it it will fall apart. Well the production crew didn't take very good care of this car and it almost fell apart on them half way through. But somehow it made it to the end of the finish line. "Silent Hill" has great elements a sturdy plot and amazing visuals to fall back on when it needs to but this film is not unwatchable due to the bland acting. Everything else in the film will keep you int rested enough to make it through the end and that in my book is an achievement.

    All in all "Silent Hill delivers on what it promises a good horror ride but it may turn off long time, die hard fans of the video game series. But it is great to watch if your a horror fan and have never heard of the games before but if you have this may disappoint you . All in all it delivers one wild and nightmarish ride.
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