Silent Hill
| release date | April 21 2006 |
| studio | TriStar Pictures (Sony) |
| director | Christophe Gans |
| writer | Roger Avary |
| starring | Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean, Laurie Holden, Deborah Kara Unger, Kim Coates,Tanya Allen, Jodelle Ferland |
| site | welcometosilenthill.com |
| trailer 1 | Trailer #1 |
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One of the best videogame adaptation ever, Silent Hill is so creepy, suspenseful and bizarre that fans won
This is by far one of the best game -> film adaptations I have ever seen. This movie blew me away, and I will never forget it.
i enjoyed this film and highly recimend it!!!!!…..:)
what movies today should be like…Scary, I’m sick of all the gore… This movie was one of the best of the year…
This was never scary it was actually pretty mundane best part was the church skinned splatter scene as video game movies based in the horror genre THIS WAS THE BEST when it came down to plain horror and sticking true to video game story(it was SH2 with a female lead instead of male) but that’s not saying much with resident evil being the only big rival but then again RE was more of a action horror then a survival horror which the game is based on just like Silent hill is based on a Survival horror I loved the ending and always leaves sequels and prequels such as what happened the week that officer was with the kid in the mine shaft it could have her thinking she’s being delusional and seeing the monster but REALLY IS seeing them. They pretty much screwed up any possibility of making a true transition of from a video game of 1 2 or orgins if they want to tie this movie in, because they jacked how Alissa was saved (in offical game canon she’s saved by the lead of origins) and they pretty much tied 1 and 2 together into this one with a lead that resembles 3′s lead. One of the best video game movies next to Postal the movie but not a good movie all together 3.5 skulls or 7 out of 10
i watched this on encore mystery the other night. I thought the beginning was good but the rst was pretty boring. not scary at all. i got kinda confused. worth seeing if you are a fan of the video game.
this film is without a doubt brilliant,
follows the game but also with its own imaginative qualitys
WIKEDAWSOME
If you like being CGed to death, this is the film for you. The way the movie reveals all the evil things in the town is good and it kept the movie going. Unfortunately that’s probably the only thing I saw that kept it going because the plot I felt was slow in developing and and not so scary.
Owning the entire Silent Hill series (minus origins); I can say this movie is for the fans to go “cool”. Not very scary but no dought entertaining.
this movie was pretty good i just wish it would have ended. it was good at first. then it kept going and going and going w/ the same old stuff.
they should have changed things up a bit. deff. could have been better.
deff. worth seeing though.
Having not really played the games before I went to see this movie in the cinema I can’t really complain about the things that were wrong (As the person I went with did).
The film is really good. the tension is built up really well by waiting for the sirien to sound and wondering what monsters are going to come out of the dark.
However it does tend to drag on a little bit towards the end and the end is a bit predictable. Really any horror movies with Sean Bean in it is never going to be that good.
If you have never played the games this is a great movie. scary and well made. But if you know the games, the movie really just doesnt do it for you. That being said its still fun to watch. VERY well made.
This is one of my top favorite movies. I think it is really well done and since the ending wasn’t completely clear, it stayed in my mind for a long time. It never gets old no matter how many times I watch it either. Great acting and effects btw.
Horrible.
Very good. A little boring in the middle. I was confused on the ending, but then I got it. I have never played the games, but I wanted to see it. I enjoyed it.
I loved the video game series and I was so excited when I saw they were making a Silent Hill movie. Ya the Resident Evil movies were okay but this was just awesome. The movie had such a creepy vibe to it just like the video games. I thought they did an excellent job making this video game into a movie. It is one of my favorite horror movies to date.
i love this movie! its really dark though so its kinda hard to see some stuff and the first time i saw it i was kind of like wtf just happened but i got it after i saw it again
I loved the video game because It was really scary…I actually found myself liking the film itself because I liked the game! I was scared!
Good plot, horrific creatures, spooky atmosphere. One of my favorite horror movies.
pretty good.
pretty good horror movie good effects pretty scary creatures
i would give this movie a 6/10 because i thought that it had bad parts yet has some good things in it
As a huge fan of the games, I was vastly disappointed by Christope Gans’ adaptation of the source material.
“Silent Hill” attempts the atmoshpere of the games by, most notably, immitating the look. However, the films lacks any of the character and plot depth, suspense, or cleverness of the games. This is most apparently due to the awful screenplay and writing by Roger Avary. I don’t mean to blame Gans too harshly, because as we’ve seen with “Le Pacte des loups” (a.k.a. “Brotherhood of the Wolf”), the man has talent. But all of the directing effort couldn’t save the half-hearted writing.
The acting is also laughably bad and although Jodelle Ferland is just a little girl, won’t can’t help but cringe their teeth when watching her performance. Laurie Holden and Tanya Allen are also notably bad. However, I don’t beleive it is the actors that are at fault but rather the lack of material they were given to work with.
Other parts of the film that are meant to be scary also come off as unintentionally humorous as well. As much as I watched to like “Silent Hill”, I couldn’t wait to leave. The ending is rather ambigious and I have a feeling that even those who have played the games will be scratching their heads after watching the film, I know I did.
Though not horrible, “Silent Hill” isn’t a treat.
we went to see it having played the games and loved it from the first frame to the last.
clearly, this movie wasn’t made for people unfamiliar with the games, but it isn’t a bad thing at all.
and if I think of how awfully the resident evil movies disconnected themselves from their brilliant source…. the silent hill movie was filmed by a man who kept the games in mind throughout the whole process. and it shows.
I actually watched this film in the theater without ever having played the games. I thought the movie was very good, until I finally did play the games. After playing them, specifically 2 and 3 (cannot find 1 and didn’t care for 4) I found that I loved the games and decided that the movie just didn’t do them justice. I still enjoy the film but it is not nearly as intense, creepy and deep as the games were. The games have better plots and characters and hell; even the acting and soundtrack is better. The film by comparison is actually quite dull, it could have been much better. With that said however the movie is still the best video game adaptation I have yet seen and the end slaughter sequence is truly memorable.
loved it
i loveddd this movie! i never played the game, so im not exactly sure how consistent it was with the video game. but from what ive seen, i thought this movie was brilliat. alice krige who played christabella did a great job portraying her! she made me actually hate her character. over-all i would highly recommend this movie
Not knowing a thing about the video game i feel the film lacked anything of good interest or entertainment, some visuals were downright beautiful scenary but then destroyed by silly plot with uninteresting characters.
perhaps this shoudl be only seen by fans failiar with the game
Great Movie
Awesome movie very unique and creative. I dont think they could have done anything to make it better
great movie liked the look and feeel of it
This is an amazing movie definatly worth your time.
Now I liked this movie up to a point …. the end maybe because I have not played the game, I dont understand what happen … But over all good movie !!!
This movie isn’t bad. I’ve never played the games, so I don’t know how accurate it is, but it’s an entertaining movie nonetheless.
The budget is large and the creatures are scary as hell, and the film is beautiful to watch, but it’s too long and the story is very hard to follow. It’s worth a watch though.
Never played the game so didn’t know what to expect. The atmosphere was pretty good and the film makers did a good a job with the overall feel , very creative. I loved the ash raining burnt down town and the creatures were outstanding. I thought it dragged in some spots and didn’t know where it was heading but when it all started to come together I was quite like suprised. Worth a watch.
Silent Hill is easily the best video game movie adaptation that has ever been made. This movie may be more difficult on the viewers without prior exposure to Silent Hill through the video games. Fans of the video game will understand more; however, fans will be far more critical. The movie cannot be compared to the video games. The artistic integrity remains similar between the movie and the games, but not much else does. You cannot say that the movie lacks the story and character development that the games provide because the movie is 2 hours long where the games are 10 hours long. Certainly the movie will pale in comparison. I didn’t hold the movie to the same standards as the game, which is why I enjoyed it more than other gamers. The greatest death scene of all time is in Silent Hill: Pyramid Head’s decortication of Anna on the church steps. Beautiful movie.
I don’t know why I like this movie so much. It employs virtually every annoying and nerd-rage-inducing (for me personally) cliche of this decade’s style of horror film… yet… I love this movie. It’s one of those movies I can pop into the DVD player as a fun background, and never get tired of… I have no explanation. lol
OMG!!!!! this movie was amazing… this is coming from someone who has never played the game before! once i played the game after seeing this movie i was astounded and had to see it a second time…
This movie had its good points but it also had many bad ones as well. The video games were much better than the film, by far. The movie was very good from the beginning to the middle but it lost alot toward the end. The movie was very dark and once you entered silent hill, you never seemed to see the sun. The characters were ok but never that indepth. The scenes with the exicutioner were probably my favorite becuase he was pretty bad ass when he skinned that girl alive, probably the best scene in whole movie. However the ending just didn’t do it for me, the whole part where she had to go through the basemant was good but the story line started to kind of drag and you kind of became lost. I really enjoyed the cop becuase she was kick ass but overall I would give this movie a 6/10. Any REAL horror movie fan would not enjoy this movie, however anyone whose horror knowledge spans from friday the 13th to scream you may enjoy it.
Silent Hill is the best Video game Film ever made! It had a good story from the first video game, but it was modified from the games story because it can’t be exactly the same. Pyramid Head was awesome in this movie, and the creatures were very well created. It just lacked the disturbing Horror and Creepiness that Silent Hill is; it wasn’t that scary. Silent Hill needed more gore like in the Video game. Adam Mason The Director of “The Devil’s Chair” should direct “Silent Hill 2″ movie, he could make it Disturbing and Scary like the Video games. I was glad to see that The Silent Hill Town came to life in the film. This film didn’t have to typical Hollywood Ending of Happily Ever after…because its a Horror movie!! Its has a Silent Hill ending and hopefully they make a sequel that continues the story. This Film is much better than The Resident Evil movies that have come out, its True Horror at its best, I recommend watching this film if your a horror fan.
I thought this movie was really good. As far as Video Game Movies go I put this one above all the rest, especially Resident Evil.
Jesus. One of the worst films of the decade. Unintentionally funny, uninteresting, devoid of any real scares… atrocious acting. I could not wait for this to end. Avoid like the plague.
GREAT movie if you follow the video games!
This movie is great!
But not th same as the first game, same plot, but MOST things are different, which makes this movie awesome.
Its one movie to see Over and Over again…
I recommend it to everyone
as a fan of the games i thought they did a great job with this movie! it felt looked and even sounded like the game with ample gore and good acting this is one to watch for sure.
a complete and utter abomination to the game
it almost made me like less the game itself, thank god i didn’t watch it till the end or it could have ruined the game for me for life!
honestly, can’t these greedy bastards leave at least ONE good game unspoiled! why, oh god, why do they feel the need to f*** up everything they can get their hands on? have some mercy, for f*** sake!
I’m a huge, HUGE fan of all of the games and this movie is great just like them. It has the same creepy atmosphere and cool visuals the game does. Also loved how the last game incorporated elements from this movie into it. Love the whole Silent Hill universe.
THIS IS ONE OF MY MOST FAVORITE HORROR MOVIES EVER!!!
IT’S SO AWESOME !! IT HAS AN HELL OF AN ATMOSPHERE!!
the best thing about it, is that it has an story behind the horror and everything !!!
this is a horror must-see !!!
- BloodyRed
THis one was okay. the lady cop was distracting (not in a good way)… She was a horrible actress. everythign else was good. extra points for final act.
I liked the overall mood and atmosphere of the movie. I also think that the town was eerie and the story was pretty good. The only major problem I had with this movie was all the cg.The movie over did it. The creatures didn’t even look scary, which was a disappointment because they had a lot of potential to look disturbing. I also think that the fact that the movie was filmed like a video game was a bad idea. It would looked better and scarier if it was filmed like a normal movie.
I think this may be the worst movie ever made.
( I CANNOT STRESS ENOUGH, THE MINIMUM I CAN GIVE IS 1 FULL SKULL, I WOULD GIVE THIS MOVIE -10/10)
THIS MOVIE WAS DOWNRIGHT UNBEARABLE!!!!!!!!!!
Another video game-turned-movie that FAILED. The biggest disappointment in my entire life, I can’t believe I was looking forward to this when it was in theatres… it had it’s moments, such as the Pyramid Head scene.. but other than that, it was super boring. I can’t believe they would do such a thing to one of the best survival horror games ever made.
I’m starting to think BD reviews are not worth the word document there typed on. This movie sucked, not only sucked but was complete shit.
Worst plot ever, nothing made sense even in a video game movie u should have some fucking clue how to piece together a film. They went out of there way to ruin what could of been a really good movie.
Awesome movie for a bad video game.
This movie made not one lick of sense. Stupid.
Love the town and the way they brought the characters and atmospheres to life. I guess one must play the game to enjoy it and follow along, but if you have played the game, this is nice eye-candy to further prove to us how Silent Hill is one strange town with a freaked up past, and a world of unknown evils. The parallel storyline between the main character and her husband was beautiful. I loved the way one was one place, the other at the same place with a different condition. Amazing but yet it has been done before..funny huh? Very gorgeous imagrey in that..demented way. Pretty creatures and sick-vommit things..you’ll see. The ending needs to stop being bitched about, it’s appropriate. Shut up and watch, the ending won’t change to fulfill your personal lust for a utopian ending. It’s Silent Hill people, plain and simple. Silent Hill is a huge thing to try to capture for a movie..especially when it’s comming from something that already exists on a video game, as oppose to a book. But yet, I do think the matching of game to film was executed nicely, with flaws of course, but not enough to destroy the film. It’s freaky stuff, try it.
not bad . but the new video game is realy shit
About as a great as a video game to film movie as you can get. The translation is lost along the way to becoming a big budget Hollywood horror film, but it holds its own and is pretty decent; got nothing on any of the games, but it’s certainly better than most horror movies that get crapped out every year.
It’s got a great atmosphere, some moderately creepy moments and some cool cinematography. The climax is particularly gory and bad ass, but hardcore fans might be turned off by the film’s lack of subtlety and the cluttered amount of characters.
This movie was great. Awesome special fx. Not too scary per say, but it was down right shocking at times. The only negative for me was that the actress that played the female cop came off as really cheesy when they introduce her character, but she redeems her self because even though her acting wasnt spot on >>>*spoiler* when she dies so horribly, I did feel for her and felt uncomftorable during the scene <<<<<*spoiler over
I don’t like the games and never played them for more than an hour and I still loved this movie.
I honestly think that people who are commenting the rude and not true stuff didn’t play the games first. The movie DID make perfect sense, though not completely true to the game, it was a great movie. If you are a person who thinks about things going on instead of just waiting for someone to die, THEN you would get the movies plot.
I personally loved it.
SHITE.
I don’t know if anyone has mentianed this or not but the look of the town was inspired by the town Centrailia PA. I’m not sure about the game because I’ve never played it but the movie was kinda creepy.
There was many aspects of the video that the movie lacked… however, I still thoroughly enjoyed this film.
I loved the creatures and thought that the story was good to
A beautiful but empty fantasy (unintentional?) horror-drama based on the highly acclaimed psychological, uncomfortable and gripping videogame franchise.
Christophe Gans and his crew provides a visual masterpiece, a magnificent sound portion and striking atmosphere, not to mention an excellent, intriguing cast. Unfortunately, it suffers from highly inconsistent narrative and structure, a notable lack of suggestive suspense, tension and danger, and the jaded plot and its shallow, empty characters are incapable of engaging. Furthermore, Roger Avary’s dialogue is in overall surpringly dull, idle and pointless.
It’s ironic, really… Given all the potential and extended passion, Silent Hill could have been the first decent film based on a videogame without exceptions, it could in some extent have reinvented the horror-genre, but turned out more or less as disappointing as Resident Evil or Doom, but better than Alone in the Dark, but worse than Hitman.
Each and every visual and audio aspect has been considered and carefully thought of, recreating the games’ beautiful and intimidating sceneries and beyond, however, an intriguing plot and organic, emotional characters – the games’ two remaining vital aspects beside visuals and sound – don’t exist.
This movie had a lot of potential, but it failed to live up to it. There were glaring cases of plot stupidity displayed by the main cast of characters, and there were too many actors in the movie.
Minor spoilers below, you have been warned.
Cast:
Why they showed the husband at all was beyond me: his presence in the movie was pointless frustrating padding. You could cut him out entirely and the movie would flow much better. He interrupts the flow of the movie and nothing more.
Cybil was given the plot stupidity ball in the cast. She essentially dies because the plot demanded she do so. There was no reason for it at all, other than for a ‘cheap grossout scene/death’, viewers who want a well written plot and characterisation will be yelling at the screen.
In general, the cast of characters in this totally subtract from the survival horror aspect of the movie. We are presented with a dark desolate lonely environment, that in and of itself can scare you with its atmosphere, and then they populate it and ruin it with loud mouthed characters. Well done.
Monsters:
Pyramid head had absolutely no place in this movie. The things that the directors seemed to totally miss as a point was that the monsters presented in Silent Hill are the inner demons of the protagonists, and represent aspects of themselves. They represent their sins and their failings. Yet here is one of the visual sins of the second games main character, seemingly presented because he is ‘scary’. I’m sorry directors, but it does not work that way, you seem to totally miss the point of silent hill in general. Additionally we see the zombie nurses return. Again, for seemingly no other reason than they are ‘scary’. Not.
Visually, the movie is stuning, and it is for the environment that I am giving this movie 5 stars, they did a great job on the visual appeal of the movie. Its such a shame that they missed what Silent Hill is.
if you are a fan of the games, you’ll want to shut off your brain before watching this and you might enjoy it as long as you can ignore plot stupidity. If you do not know much about the games and what silent hill represents, you might find a decent movie you might enjoy.
Like Resident Evil, this is the only other movie turned from video game to movie that I really enjoyed. It annoys me that people dog this movie as if they were fucken Siskel and Ebert. It’s a horror movie people! I enjoyed the creepy monsters and think they lived up to the ones in the game. The characters themselves are memorable especially Dahlia, Alessa/Sharon, and Christabella who portray the demented side and twisted souls that are trapped in Silent Hill. I loved the religious undertones that this movie portrayed and it perfectly embodies how people do the most carnal things in the name of their religion. The town of Silent Hill is a character within itself and in the history of horror movies when has there ever been a whole town that was made haunted and in a good way? Also if you’ve played the games and are a fan of them you will definitely enjoy this movie, unless of course you’re like so many of whiny people below who can’t even enjoy a good horror movie because they’ve been completely desensitized by all the other crap that passes as horror these days.
The effects are fantastic. But everything was senseless. No sequel please. By the way, what’s with the ending??
This movie was…not very good i expected alot better.
Even though it doesn’t necessarily and strictly stick to the original story of the game I have to say I love this movie.
They managed to recreate the creepy and nerve-recking atmosphere that keeps you alert and tensed up when you play the game. The characters are great too and they made Pyramid Head and the nurses look more awesome than ever [thankfully they kept the look of them in Silent Hill: Homecoming]. They also managed to make me wonder how in hell I managed to follow the clues in the game.
Great movie if you decide not to think of it as a follow up of the games, and if you’ve played the games and you don’t mind the story not being loyal to the first three games of the franchise but being as alternative as the last two games. If you hated SH: The Room and Homecoming, then just don’t watch the movie or you’ll hate it too.
This is one way to spoil a great, classic video game, by making a terrible “horror” movie based on it. Silent Hill has no relevance to the games at all, except the setting, and some of the creatures. I was highly dissapointed when I watched this movie. The acting sucked, the CGI wasn’t even that good, and it wasn’t that gory or scary at all. Although, I liked some of the monsters in the movie, some were really creepy looking, but nothing to scare the shit out of you! The annoying siren ever five minutes, the horrible ending and the stupid acting, these guys should be ashamed of them selves. Avoid this if your decent enough to call yourself a horror fan.
3/10
Has a movie, I think it was a bit empty… the plot could have been much better.
But it was quite like the game that originated the movie, and I liked the special effects and the potography a lot.
I never played the video games so I didn’t know what to expect , but the monsters in this film are fuckin freaky. The ending was kind of weird, but overall a really good horror film, if you haven’t seen it, check it out.
AWESOME
I’ve never seen something so stupid in all my life! IT was a daft senseless load of old crap! Everything was just too over the top and the ending just didn’t seem to make sense making it’s overlong running time seem like a waste of time. The effects wern’t that good, you could tell everything looked really fake. It’s just too daft for words, please don’t bother watching this piece of shit
I’m a big gamer, and this movie is one of the few vg adaptations I enjoyed. This was a full price movie for me.
Words can barely describe dis movie it is so awesome !!!!
Chaaaa!!!!!
Christophe Gans faithfully recreates the atmosphere of Silent Hill, with camera angles, visuals, sound effects and music reminiscent of the games (in fact it uses the same composer from the games). Such great hellish imagery too, especially with the “otherworld” sequences, it is like being transported directly to hell.
Another thing I like is the actresses he chose – Alice Krige (who could forget her as the Borg Queen), Radha Mitchell (very beautiful, she was in Pitch Black), Laurie Holden (great in The Mist), Deborah Kara Unger (hot actress, liked her in The Game and Crash), Jodelle Ferland (amazing little girl who did great in Terry Gilliam’s Tideland).
But the sequences with Sean Bean and Kim Coates are a little boring and exposition-heavy (apparently he was forced to include them in the movie, for lack of male presence). But they don’t drag the movie down necessarily.
The dialogue doesn’t bother me because the game’s dialogue is similar. Frankly I think they improved the dialogue from the game.
I don’t care though that’s it’s not 100% faithful to plotlines of the games, like I said they at least gave us the atmosphere of Silent Hill and that’s all I wanted. Hopefully for the sequel they will take the concept much further as the other games did.
Overall it’s not perfect but as a Silent Hill movie it’s awesome plus it’s my favourite video game-based movie of all time.
this my favorite game of all time, it was actually my first game in playstation so ive been obsessed with it for a long time…best adaptation to a game ever! awesome movie.
The good
This movie has a amazing look to it and the gore and special effects are awesome. The very ending in the church was fucking awesome
The Bad
Wow what bad acting, the little girl has to be one of the worst child actors that has ever been in a film. Once the film introduces us to the towns people shit just goes right downhill, we don’t want to see townspeople because it just kills the mood of the movie. The movie does best as you are following the mother alone through the town and the makers should have focused on that.
I heard bad reviews for this movie so I put off watching it but then I got it and I thought it was interesting movie and I don;t think that you can make the movie just like the video game its just like a book its never the equal at all. I would recommend watching this movie its was a little confusing in some parts.
The movie had nothing to do with the games! Why make a game movie without following the game’s story? I wonder how much Tristar Pictures paid Konami to make Silent Hill 4 to cover their fuck up.
A great horror movie scarred by some terrible dialogue! The special effects are amazing, and the story comes pretty close to that of the original PS1 game, with a few alterations…but I prefer movie adaptations to have their own legs to stand on instead of being carbon copies anyways, so it worked well. Saying it has “nothing to do with the games” only proves the individual has NOT played them!
The actors all did a fine job, but again, the dialogue was bad, so people tend to see the result as bad acting instead of what the real problem is. The little girl was incredible in Tideland, and I recommend that to anyone interested in a bazaar and twisted story with a great little actress!
Silent Hill may not be for everyone, but it’s visually stunning and fun to watch, so I say give it a try.
The best live-action adaption of a video game so far.
Pretty good! Better than I thought it would be. After I watched it with my friend we had to get something from their house so we had to walk down this creek behind my house… omfg so creeped out.
Anywho! Good movie. I think the games are still scary to this day. I have one in my room… buried under things haha.
Looked amazing but thats all.I agree with Draxo major plot stupidity and the dialog is shit, but like he said if you turn your brain off it can be entertaining. Also the little girl who played Cheryl or Sharon(in the movie)may have been the worst child actress I have seen in a movie. Last they missed the point of the goddamn game. I suggest just going out and buying the games(Silent Hill 1-3 are the best imo) they will scare you or make you feel a sense of dread, unlike this movie.
best.best.best
What a disappointment has nothing to do with the game at all such a let down.
Awesome ending… if you understand it…
Beautiful Movie. I loved Especially The Music.
it was shot beautiful, the story was right on and it had creepy elements to it, good effects, Silent Hill’s worth a watch
Started off creepy, and stayed that way throughout the movie. It had a pretty good plot, good actors, and nice effects. I thought it was a pretty alright movie, would probably watch it again.
Score : 7/10
I had not heard anything about this movie and knew nothing about the game. I really enjoyed it.
For those not willing to follow a film, Silent Hill would be “stupid” as several people on this page have called it.
But those can follow a film should find something worth while in this.
Silent Hill is not only loyal to its source material, its also loyal to the fans of the series (Unlike those shitty Ume Boll game adaptions)
Caught this movie the other day on the SyFy Channel. I had not seen it since theaters, which I left somewhat disappointed. I will say they matched the setting to the video game pretty much exactly (Except nowhere near as scary). Thats really where the line gets drawn. Besides some pretty cool special effects, this movie ends up being boring and even a little confusing at times. I thought it started off ok, then kind of seemed like the SyFy channel produced it. If your looking for a scare from “Silent Hill” play the games for PlayStation.
Out of any film to be an adaptation of a video game, this has to be the best by far! The setting is perfect and the effects are amazing. What really interests me is how much of the movie is NOT CG but real effects and actors! Amazing. The story is a little different than the original game but it’s still easy to understand. If you are a true Silent Hill fan then you will have no problem understanding the film. Especially the ending. So many people didn’t get it but I did, I think. Well here’s my idea of what it means. You already know that Rose is inside a parallel universe that is no bigger than just the town itself. Why? Because Alyssa could only create a place that she is familiar with. She had never been outside of Silent Hill. At the films climax, It’s obvious that Rose is still inside Alyssa’s world but now Sharron and Alyssa have become one. So all the knowledge from Sharron (knowledge of the outside world) is now part of Alyssa. That’s why the as they drive over the abyss, the road slowly continues to grow. Her “world” is growing because she now knows what’s beyond Silent Hill. It sets it up for a sequel with Rose still inside Alyssa’s world and all sorts of possibilities could happen. That’s my idea of what it means and hope that it could help anyone that felt confused on why it ended the way it did. I might be wrong but it’s still not a bad interpretation.
I bloody love this film – Pyramid head removes a woman’s skin in one go, a sure winner. And the film is fairly unusual in horror in that all the main characters a female. Looking forward to the next one.
What a silent hill of crap! Not one coherent moment in this mess. Please stop trying to bring video games into the realm of cinema…
a desecration.
absolute trash – stupid story along with atrocious acting and not to mention the film was really boring with zero scares
Liked this one though a bit slow to start. The atmosphere and visuals are spectacular, but felt there was more emphasis on this than the story. Yes I did enjoy it, but felt like it could’ve done more.
I love this movie a lot it’s entertaining, scary, unique, great acting, and I love the whole Silent Hill town it’s so amazing. I saw this movie 35 times and I saw the making of it also. This horror movie is a must see. They might make a Silent Hill 2 3D! YES I am so there
This movie was very exotic and scary!
AN AMAZING HORROR MASTERPIECE! One of my favorites.
I liked what they did with the movie (1st one, so far ) not exactly perfect, but really enjoyed it. SH has always gone for the creepy factor, not the big scare, so if you are posting about that, then you probably were playing RE. Regardless, it is great news that another chapter is comming to the big screen, I hope it gets more of the foggy or dark aspect that the game was made up of, that is part of the creep factor and the audio, you can hear thing creeping up on you in the game, but the fog/darkness keeps you on edge trying to find it before it grabs you and buttfucks you hahahaha anyways, IMO it was good enough, lets hope for more of at least the same level and not a substitute quality for quantity like they usually do in films. L8R H8Rz
As fans of Silent Hill, the movie disappointed me a bit, although it not a bad movie, the film never manages to fully capture the true essence of SH, atmosphere, fear, claustrophobia, loneliness, paranoia, all this the movie lacks I hope the sequel to come to correct the mistakes it committed. The only thing really good is the original music of Akira Yamaoka.
This movie has a higher score than a 1? Are you kidding me? As a fan of Silent Hill, I don’t understand how you could like this film. As a film alone I don’t understand how you could like this film! It was pure SUCK. Nearly everything about it sucked! The story line was lame, the movie itself was boring, the acting was subpar, and not one part of it was scary. The only good part about it was Sean Bean, and that’s just because he’s a great actor. How they got him to sign on for the second one I’ll never figure out. Unless they do some miraculous turn around with the second one, this is by far the most disappointing horror installment I’ve seen in a while.
Pretty bad acting from most of the characters but it’s saved by a cool concept and great special effects and kills.
Ever wonder what it would look like to use a psychic ability and explode a chick from the inside out by penetrating her vagina with barbed wire? Yeah… you’re a sick puppy, but it’s in this movie so check it out.
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I don’t see how anyone is saying this movie sucked, I loved it! I love the setting and the eerie aspect of the movie. It’s creepy and I think the storyline is great!
I feel too much sympathy for characters in horror films…
But aside from that, it’s a very creepy movie. I liked it. The sirens were great. Good homage to the games.
Loved this movie. The titty twister of doom is one of the best death scenes I’ve ever seen.
I think this movie would have been a lot better if it followed the video game storyline more. Its not bad but its nothing amazing. There are some cool scenes and kills and the storyline isnt THAT bad. The atmosphere was great, however, but like I said, would have been better if the characters were Harry & Cheryl rather than Rose & Sharon.
Really good FX but thats all.
…I just. WHY.
Okay, good: photography and soundtrack, which lent a definite mood to the movie. BAD: the entire second half (ridiculous), and the fact that the first half, though not bad, felt like it was a video game in and of itself–one with way too many cutscenes. I want to give this a better score, because like I said, the first half isn’t ALL bad, but… it didn’t make any sense, either.
AWESOME MOVIE! Its a creepy dark horror movie with a really important message. Not to mention the amazing visuals, sets, and special effects. All of these are academy award worthy. The actors do a fantastic job. And this film makes a very important statement about how religious extremism is a terrible thing that can cause horrible results. This is something I feel very strongly about and so this film is all the more important to me. If you want to watch an amazing horror movie with a important message you really need to see this movie. Also if your fans of the games you will definitely love this movie. I can’t wait for the SEQUEL COMING OUT OCT
Could have been better.
I enjoyed this film. As an adaptation, it’s pretty solid; more than a few details of the original story got lost in translation, but the plot still feels very much like what the fans know of the first game. It’s a visually stunning film, and as usual Akira Yamaoka provides a great soundtrack.
On the other hand, the dialogue is abysmal at times and I couldn’t keep from laughing at some of the things that were said. The film is also, in essence, a massive piece of fanservice. The inclusion of pyramid head and the bubble nurses was unjustified and unexplained. Despite its flaws, this is still worth a watch, I’d say.
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