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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 Shannon

Newest Review: ... I had played the game. A lot of it was easy but there were parts that needed a second watch to get the gist of it. I dont ... more

 ... know whether this is because I had played the game and whether people who had not played it would understand the story differently. The story line is about a little girl called Sharon who was having night mares and talked in them about Silent Hill. Her mother Rose Da Silva (Radha Mitchell) decides to take her to the town to see if she can find out what is troubling her daughter but when she gets there she crashes her car and is knocked unconscious. When she wakes up Sharon has disappeared and she sets out to f...more

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Crowned Review Silent Hill (DVD): Another Game turns Movie (825 words)
by - written on 10/02/08 (Very useful, 86 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 ...  Read the complete review

tom1clare
Crowned Review Silence Speaking Volumes? [Film Only] (1397 words)
by - written on 30/10/07 (Very useful, 107 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 ...  Read the complete review

Duty_Free_Me
Crowned Review Silent Hill (DVD): The Silence before the screams (1421 words)
by - written on 20/09/06 (Very useful, 261 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 ...  Read the complete review

dlb74
Crowned Review Welcome to Silent Hill... You'll never leave... (4173 words)
by - written on 17/09/06 (Very useful, 606 readings)
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Back in 1999, I bought a game for the original Sony Playstation (PS1) called Silent Hill. This was very much in the same vein as the likes of Resident Evil (1996) in that it is within the ‘survival horror’ games genre. Unlike Resident Evil, Silent Hill was very much less in the gamers’ face, with more emphasis on a subtle approach to the scares and monsters which made for an extremely ominous atmosphere with a level of suspense that made Silent Hill an experience that the player wouldn’t forget in a hurry - particularly when they had just switched out the light at bed-time. Sweet dreams! The original Silent Hill game sadly looks a little rough ...  Read the complete review

Ailran
Crowned Review Silent Hill (DVD): Halloween Horror Hijinks (989 words)
by - written on 17/10/06 (Very useful, 203 readings)
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Rose (Rahda Mitchell, Pitch Black, Phonebooth)& Christopher Da Silva(Sean Bean, Lord of The Rings, Sharpe) have a young daughter, Sharon, who sleepwalks, talking about wanting to go back to Silent Hill, a place neither parent has ever heard of. A quick search on the internet reveals that Silent Hill is a ghost town, evacuated when the coal below the town caught fire a number of years ago, a fire that is still burning even now. Rose decides, against her husband's better judgement, to take her daughter, Sharon (Jodelle Ferland, who was outstanding as Jeliza rose in Terry Gilliam's Tideland), adopted after being left on the doorstep of an orphanage, there. ...  Read the complete review

 
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