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 Silent Hill (DVD)
Description: Genre: Horror / Theatrical Release: 2006 / Director: Christophe Gans / Actors: Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean ... / DVD ... more  Silent Hill (DVD) ... released 04 September, 2006 at 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Features of the DVD: Anamorphic, PAL / A lot of movies can be described as "dripping with atmosphere," but in the case of Silent Hill it's literally true. Faithfully adapted from the Konami video games by French director Christophe Gans and Pulp Fiction cowriter Roger Avary (both self-confessed video game addicts), this dark and grisly horror-fest is nothing if not a triumph of cinematography and production design, consisting of a minimal and mostly incoherent plot propped up by a mysterious maze of sets that literally seep, drip, and ooze with the atmospheric evil of past misdeeds. Welcome to the abandoned and perpetually foggy ghost town of Silent Hill, where grey ash falls like snow, a devastating coal-mine fire still burns in a hellish underground, and demons of various shapes and sizes make your worst nightmares seem like a walk in the park. It's here that distressed mother Rose (played by Pitch Black heroine Radha Mitchell) has taken her daughter Sharon (Jodelle Ferland) in hopes of discovering the source of Sharon's sleepwalking nightmares. What they find instead is a burned-out legacy of unspeakable evil, as Silent Hill's dark secrets are revealed. As opposing denizens of Silent Hill's meta-morphing underworld, Canadian actresses Alice Krige and Deborah Kara Unger seem to be the only ones who recognize this morbid mess as campy comedy; Gans (who established his visual flair with The Brotherhood of the Wolf) and Avary take it far too seriously, and the entire movie is utterly devoid of any emotional hooks or plot logic that would make us care about anything that happens. In crafting a loyal big-screen rendition of Silent Hill and its Playstation sequels, they've forgotten that movies play by a different and more demanding set of rules. As a result, they've made an impressive-looking but ultimately hollow horror film that only Silent Hill game-players can truly appreciate. --Jeff ShannonNewest Review: ... based off of a successful video game franchise, but like most films inspired by video games, it's not very good. It fails on ... more ... both a basic cinematic level and also in the sense that it's not a very good representation of the video games.
I won't go too deeply into the plot, suffice to say that it's a bastardization of three very different stories, crammed into one that understandably makes little sense. The film employs the use of a christian cult to explain some of the craziness, something the game did not. Instead of the powerful admonishment of blind faith the writers obviously intended the film to have, it comes off as a high-s...more |
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Silent Hill (DVD): Another Game turns Movie (825 words)
by Deru - written on 10.02.08 (Very useful, 74 readings)
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Silent Hill is a movie based on a Japanese game franchise from Konami with the same title, a game which I've never played so the story was completely new to me. I saw the movie at the cinema. The movie begins with a Rose (Radha Mitchell) and her adopted Sharon (Jodelle Ferland) but Sharon sleep walks, and keeps calling out "Silent Hill", as well as defacing her own drawings with creepy and sadistic features like blood. After some Google'ing by the parents, 'Silent Hill' turns out to be a ghost town in West Virginia. Rose, thinking it would help Sharon, decides to take Sharon to Silent Hill without the father's (Sean Bean) consent. However, once they reached ...
Silence Speaking Volumes? [Film Only] (1389 words)
by tom1clare - written on 30.10.07 (Very useful, 102 readings)
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History has taught us that a good game rarely makes for a good film adaptation. Tomb Raider and Streetfighter are primary examples of projects destined for failure purely because they had so little storyline to work with in the first place, and the same can be said for countless others. Indeed, Mortal Kombat probably remains the best of a dubious bunch simply because it focussed on the few areas that could make for an effective transition into film (the martial arts sequences, in other words) whilst also paying a fine homage to the game upon which it was based. The problem with such crossovers is, strong storylines are rather more crucial to a film than a game ...
Silent Hill (DVD): The Silence before the screams (1421 words)
by Duty_Free_Me - written on 20.09.06 (Very useful, 256 readings)
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The Silence before the Screams I was rather dubious about spending £3.50 to rent Silent Hill from my local Choices video store. Video games turned into movies do not really entertain me, the recently released Doom movie starring the Rock I thought was dire, not to mention a few other video games turned into movies. So I can’t say I was interested in viewing this at all. However, so many friends were recommending it, and after reading some reviews on the film, which did not make it sound bad, I thought I would give it a fair shot. ---------------- Plot Outline ---------------- Sharon, a young girl, is suffering ...
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