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Description: Genre: Horror / Theatrical Release: 2006 / Director: Christophe Gans / Actors: Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean ... / DVD ... more Newest 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 |
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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 ...
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 ...
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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