Silent Hill (DVD)

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

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

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

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

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