Silent Hill Reviews and Ratings



  • November 23, 2009
    First of all lemme tell yo I LOVE SEAN BEAN...movies

    When I played Silent Hill on Video Game. It nearly screwed my Mind off.
    It was the Atmosphere. You dont know what comes next outta Fog and what do you expect the next.
    It was realistic. It felt
    ...( read more) as if I was kindda living the game. The Movie was not MIND SCREWING as the Video game itself, but great done. Scary no. Suspense yes. Great Actors, great Locations and great Plot.
    Oh and before I forget. I played the game several times till the End Oh yeah I survived it as you can see. Incase you wondering. lol
  • November 19, 2009
    This is a good horror .....but too crazy
  • November 18, 2009
    muy bien, aunque no lo que esperaba
  • November 15, 2009
    Creapy. I never played the game and I would never want to. I might shit myself.
  • November 13, 2009
    Triangle Head Man is awesome.
  • November 12, 2009
    Looks really . . . FREAKYY! In a good horror way : )
  • November 12, 2009
    SPOOKY GOOD FLICK...
  • November 9, 2009
    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).
  • November 5, 2009
    the nurses with scalpels were wicked







    there was alot of awesome parts in this movie
  • November 5, 2009
    Muy buen terror... pero aun asi... el videojuego... esta MAS terrorifico!
  • November 4, 2009
    Being a fan of the Silent Hill games, I loved how this movie managed to capture the creepy and twisted atmosphere.
  • November 3, 2009
    Love the game, like the movie, but wouldn't call it excellent though. It was disturbing but not scary at all.
  • November 3, 2009
    El juego sike da terror y noches sin poder momir
  • November 2, 2009
    a wonderful blend of horror, vengeance and mystery
  • October 31, 2009
    seriously messed up! But an amazing work of art. superbly close to the game.
  • October 29, 2009
    i've seen it twice to really understand but good horror movie.
  • October 29, 2009
    Good ambience building up but way too insipid & lengthy.
  • October 27, 2009
    Buena adaptacion del videojuego, los soundtrack se oyen fantasticos
  • October 23, 2009
    Thought it was creepy yet I loved it.
  • October 23, 2009
    Hade some similarities with "The Ring". I would love to play this as a game :D
  • October 17, 2009
    Weird but pretty coll
  • October 16, 2009
    "Silent Hill" is a disgrace to the video game carrying the same name. It's like Roger Avary ("Pulp Fiction", "Beowulf") went out of his way to write a terrible screenplay and Christophe Gans ("Brotherhood of the Wolf") tried his best to direct a movie with bland CGI, horrid plot...( read more) developments, and low octane acting. Well, not all of the acting is bad. Sean Bean and Radha Mitchell are actually pretty good, but they should have turned down this movie immediately after reading that script.

    The movie starts out with two parents, Rose (Mitchell) and Christopher Da Silva (Bean) who wake up one night to find their daughter, Sharon (Jodelle Ferland), missing. They find her at the edge of a giant cliff, where she's chanting "Silent Hill, Silent Hill" over and over again. For some reason, since she's such a great parent, Rose decides to take Sharon to, yep, you guessed it, Silent Hill. Apparently, the reason for this is because Sharon is dying from some sort of disease and Rose wants to see if taking her to the town will help any. If it's cancer that Sharon is suffering from, she's screwed, because no amount of sightseeing will cure that. Silent Hill is a ghost town in West Virginia that nobody has lived in for over 30 years because of the mine fires beneath the town. What Rose doesn't realize is that there's not a more fitting name than "ghost town" for Silent Hill. When Christopher realizes that Rose and Sharon are gone, he sets off after them, as does a motorcycle cop named Cybil (Laurie Holden) who stopped Rose and Sharon on their way to Silent Hill.

    Rose gets distracted on the way and is frightened by a little girl standing in the road whom she swerves to miss and accidentally crashes. Cybil crashes as well. When Rose awakens, she finds that Sharon is not in the car with her anymore. She gets arrested by Cybil, but when Cybil attempts to escort her from the town, she finds that they are separated from the rest of mankind by a giant chasm that seemingly stretches for miles. After that, they both wander the town in search of Rose's daughter and the truth about what's really going on in Silent Hill. Throw in an evil twin, a monster with a pyramid-like head (kudos to the filmmakers for keeping that element of the game in), and a crazy cult and you have...I have no clue. The plot is so undecipherable that even Robert Langdon would have trouble cracking the code.

    The first disappointment will be noticeable to fans of the game, which I am one of. It's the fact that instead of a man searching for his daughter, the filmmakers swapped the role to an obviously more feminine one. As a matter of fact, if you dig far enough, you will find that they had to be persuaded to add any male characters at all to the film. Thank God that Sean Bean became involved because that raised my rating of the film from one and a half stars to two. Now, in the movie itself, the male-female swap is a minor problem. I understood the film well enough in its opening moments, but by the ending, and especially because OF the ending, I was scratching my head in undeserved puzzlement. I have looked up several sources on the Internet in an attempt to find an explanation for that ending, but none of them cleared it up for me personally. Instead of trying to explain it myself, I will just say that is was stupid.

    Overall, the film is bad, but it's one of the best video game movies that there are. However, when you live in a world of one-star video game movies, two stars doesn't seem like much of an improvement, and it's not. If you're interested in some creative ideas that could have been better implemented, you might want to check out Silent Hill. But if you're like me and aren't particularly interested in a movie in which a woman gets her flesh entirely ripped from her body, then you can agree with me when I say, "Heck nah."

    Note: This is the longest movie review I have ever written. I think I did a great job.

    Critics who agree:
    Roger Ebert, Chicago-Sun Times: "They talk and talk and somehow their words do not light up any synapses in my brain, if my brain has synapses and they're supposed to light up, and if it doesn't and they're not, then they still don't make any sense. 1 and ½ stars."

    Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: "A few of the images are startling, but as Radha Mitchell (a good actress) wanders through a ghost town, searching for her lost daughter as though she was touring an abandoned movie set, Silent Hill is mostly paralyzing in its vagueness. D+."

    Bill Gallo, Village Voice: "Stuffed with cheap effects and devoid of tension, the French-Japanese-U.S. co-production contributes exactly zilch to the rich film history of those three nations; the most horror-crazed teen may be hard-pressed to find any authentic thrills here. 40 out of 100."

    Lou Lumenick, The New York Post: "A great-looking but stupefyingly incoherent supernatural thriller adapted from a popular video game that ransacks the entire catalogue of horror tropes for more than two mind-numbing hours. 1 star."

    Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: "Tens of millions of dollars were spent to tell us what we should have known going in: that the makers of the movie you're slogging through will spare no expense to demonstrate how much they hate us. Do us a favor. Tell them the feeling is mutual. ½ of a star."
  • October 14, 2009
    Interesting story, but still one of those weird things happen with only limited explanation of how it could have happened type of story. I imagine the movie would be more interesting if you know the video game.
  • October 11, 2009
    Very good scary movie even it's not the scariest one.
  • October 11, 2009
    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.
  • October 10, 2009
    This movie had potential.
    It was thrilling and had a good plot to make it work but the film incorporated way too many things regarding the games. It was like they crammed everything in to make a nonsensical version. There is a huge spoof that just doesn't make this film believabl...( read more)e and peeved me off in the ending.
  • October 10, 2009
    I loved the plot and the duality in the atmosphere.
  • October 9, 2009
    como en el videojuego, real y escalofriante de p/pio a fin, excelente historia la lucha d euna madre por salvar su hija
  • October 9, 2009
    This is one scary movie. I don't like movies based on video games and had no idea when I watched it a few years ago that it was in fact based on a game. (I'm no gamer!) This was a great movie.
  • October 4, 2009
    Excelent movie. However, it seems that it was a big play on the first game in the franchise.

    This movie was fantastic though.
  • October 3, 2009
    it has got too much blood
  • October 3, 2009
    pretty good horror flick, worth seeing.
  • September 29, 2009
    even though i didn't really understand it i kinda got lost along the way"!
  • September 24, 2009
    i liked the effects more than the story!
  • September 23, 2009
    la mejor que he visto
  • September 23, 2009
    It did create some scary atmosphere, but there were no scenes that would get you scared. Most of it was done by special effects, which made it unfrightening.
  • September 21, 2009
    Just wow!!! another movie from video games
  • September 19, 2009
    good movie in places the siren is very creepy
  • September 18, 2009
    This film made me really interested to watch from the starting and the workers who worked in the art department should and must surely rewarded they have done a mind blowing job and the graphics which had its higher quality even the story is new or old from historical beliefs the...( read more)y have taken the movie all whole into a scary one and hell scary one i liked the music which played always when mom searches her child and that was awesome to hear with the thrill of the film... They acted a good way but whats the biggest sad thing in this movie is that they end up in a crack way which made us ohhh my goshhh for this climax they taken a big way... because the climax was good but it was sad at the end that thinking it all in the mist and the ashes... but the director had his cut for this film and this film rocks in threatening the whole heart beat... it was quiet good film...This was thrilling and the end really cracked up in 2 worlds....
  • September 16, 2009
    The coolest horror film I've seen. It was way above my expectations.

    56/100
  • September 16, 2009
    great game to movie adaptation
  • September 16, 2009
    I think this is a movie that i waned to see. I cant remember to may things to see.
  • September 15, 2009
    Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean, Laurie Holden
  • September 14, 2009
    Not only can I not describe the plot of this movie, but I have a feeling the last scene reverses half of what I thought I knew (or didn't know). What I can say is that it's an incredibly good-looking film. The director, uses graphics and special effects and computers and grainy, ...( read more)scratchy film stock and surrealistic images and makes "Silent Hill" look more like an experimental art film than a horror film -- except for the horror, of course. The visuals are terrific; so is art, set and costume artists.
    Although I did not understand the story, I would have appreciated a great deal less explanation. All through the movie, characters are pausing in order to offer arcane back-stories and historical perspectives and metaphysical insights and occult orientations. They talk and talk and somehow their words do not light up any synapses in my brain, if my brain has synapses and they're supposed to light up, and if it doesn't and they're not, then they still don't make any sense. Perhaps those who have played the game will understand the movie, and enjoy it more than I have.
  • September 12, 2009
    Its not bad film, but it does have pyramid head in it

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