SILENT HILL
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Based on the best-selling abhorrence movement game, Silent Hill stars Radha Mitchell (Man on Fire) as Rose, a unfortunate mom who takes her adopted daughter, Sharon, to the locale of Silent Hill in an try to heal her of her ailment. After a aroused car crash, Sharon disappears and Rose starts her unfortunate poke to get her back. She descends in to a haze of smoldering charcoal and in to the core of the disfigured being of a town’s distressing secret. Pursued by grotesquely misshapen creatures and a townspeople stranded in permanent purgatory, Rose starts to expose the law at the behind of the baleful disaster which burnt the locale thirty years back. Dare to step inside the horrific locale of Silent Hill, where dim preys on each essence and Hell’s creations await around each corner. But know which once you enter…there is no branch back.Amazon.com
A lot of movies can be described as “dripping with atmosphere,” but in the box of Silent Hill it’s literally true. Faithfully blending from the Konami video games by French executive Christophe Gans and Pulp Fiction cowriter Roger Avary (both self-confessed video diversion addicts), this dim and gruesome horror-fest is zero if not a delight of cinematography and prolongation design, consisting of a minimal and often disjointed tract propped up by a puzzling obstruction of sets which literally seep, drip, and ooze with the windy immorality of past misdeeds. Welcome to the deserted and eternally misty spook locale of Silent Hill, where grey charcoal falls similar to snow, a harmful coal-mine glow still browns in a horrible underground, and demons of assorted shapes and sizes have your misfortune nightmares appear similar to a travel in the park. It’s here which unsettled mom Rose (played by Pitch Black brave woman Radha Mitchell) has taken her daughter Sharon (Jodelle Ferland) in hopes of finding the source of Sharon’s sleepwalking nightmares. What they find instead is a burned-out bequest of accursed evil, as Silent Hill’s dim secrets have been revealed. As hostile denizens of Silent Hill’s meta-morphing underworld, Canadian actresses Alice Krige and Deborah Kara Unger appear to be the usually ones who commend this dark disaster as campy comedy; Gans (who determined his visible aptitude with The Brotherhood of the Wolf) and Avary take it far as well seriously, and the complete movie is definitely abandoned of any romantic hooks or tract proof which would have us caring about anything which happens. In crafting a constant big-screen delivery of Silent Hill and the Playstation sequels, they’ve lost which movies fool around by a opposite and some-more perfectionist set of rules. As a result, they’ve done an impressive-looking but in conclusion vale abhorrence movie which usually Silent Hill game-players can indeed appreciate. –Jeff Shannon
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Not being a fan of the video game that inspired this movie, I must admit I found it visually stunning but ultimately confusing and empty. From reading other reviews, some of the enormous plot holes make sense, but if a movie isn’t honest enough to let all viewers know what’s going on, then has it achieved its goal as entertainment?
The sets, atmosphere and effects are marvelous, but the performances are lacking, with the exception of Alice Krige as the nutty spiritual leader. But once again, we have yet another movie in which a demonic little girl wants to possess another innocent little girl. Been there, done that, and frankly I wish writers would come up with something a little more inventive.
Rating: 1 / 5
This film has such great visuals…
It is such a shame this Blu-ray version, who should be great, is in fact so mediocre I could swear I was watching a standard DVD.
Some people say it is the codec they’re using… I don’t know… but the image here is fuzzy and full of artifacts. I don’t know what’s still going on… these blu-ray releases keep coming out far below what they should.
Such a shame. I regret to say, HD-DVD still has no competition.
The film is great.
Its blu-ray edition is not.
And no extras??????
Rating: 1 / 5
I invited my friends Fred: Jason: Mitch: Rico: and Travis to see Silent Hill at the movie theater with me and they all said yes. So we bought tickets and popcorn but not candy because Rico was allergic to candy and we all didn’t want Rico to feel left out. And while Jason was watching the popcorn cook Mitch went to get some stuff. Mitch came back with ciggarets and lottery tickets. Are you crazy I said where did you get those. I ran to the CVS across the street said Mitch. I decided to let it go so we walked through the hall to the room where the movie was playing. Jason was looking at the movie posters as we walked. We waited at the room doors because Travis almost pee’d in his pants so he went to the bathroom. When he came back we went into the room. It was dark we got seats in the back and ate popcorn. Mitch handed us all boxes of ciggarets and lottery tickets Enjoy he said as he lit a ciggarete and started playing his ticket. Rico handed the box of ciggarets and lottery ticket back to Mitch because it was against his religion to smoke and gamble. We watched the movie awhile until a movie guy came and said to us all exept Rico sorry but you need to leave the theater to smoke and gamble. Mitch got so angry that he punched the movie guy knocking him out cold. Then he got up and dealed with hiding the body when he got back I asked him where he put the body. In a janitor closet replied Mitch. Travis got bored and started running around the movie room annoying other people. At one point he jumped at the screen and even spit and sneezed at the screen. He spit and sneezed so much that someone called the security guards and the security guards kicked us out of the theater but we didn’t mind we had a good time.
Rating: 5 / 5
An excellent portrayal of how people can be terrorized into committing horrible crimes. Being an atheist I often wondered what it would be like to be branded as a heretic and burned alive at the stake by the church like what has happened throughout history. I wonder no more — This movie did an excellent job of portraying just that. One might counter “we don’t burn people at the stake anymore and beside this was only a movie — this is the 21st century. WRONG. In 1952 a man was burned at the stake in Spain. Also a pacifist I again wonder how one could forgive a church who did things like this to their children. There seems to be no limit to the cruelty portrayed in this movie and its parallel to real life. It reminds me of the brazen bull; a device used during the beginning of the Christian era in which whole families including children were placed inside and roasted to death. I would like to believe these are isolated incidents and this sort of rare event could not happen to me or another person who disagrees with a church or religion. But then who wants to be part of a rare event that ends their life by being burned to death.
Rating: 2 / 5
For the most part,I think this was a great horror movie. Naturally being a huge fan of the even more terrifying games,my review may seem biased.
However I truely don’t understand why Roger Ebert gave such a terrible review for this movie,other than perhaps he has something against video games.
While the conclusion of the plot can be a bit confusing (they made the mistake of trying to fill in the connection on SH 1&3 and then adding hollywood’s take on the game) there is still much for both horror fans and SH fans to enjoy.
The effects alone should have given this a thumbs up (Ebert barely gave any credit to this except to say that it was like a college art film) One of the greatest moments was when we encounter the first creature of Silent Hill.When the face was shown and that shrill was made,I truely got scared just from the anticipation alone.Then shorlty thereafter,when the “grey children” burn up,we get a dark comedy moment of Rose waking up to Johnny Cash’s Ring of Fire.
While the acting was average(at least for the male roles)Cybil
and Rose both did a good job portraying the horror that would be felt if being immersed in such a sadistic,evil dimension.
Also all SH fans will be happy to see their favorite demons make appearances in this movie adaptation.Included are patients roaches,Pyramid Head,and my personal twisted favorite,the nurses.Call me strange,but I actually find them kind of sexy.
The different music from various SH games are this movie’s soundtrack.With the most notable being SH3′s opening title as the movies end credits.
Personaly I think there will be alot more people that like this movie than hate it.The only reason that I give it a four star instead of a 5,is because 1.)I would have liked the storyline to be completely from an actual game rather than hollywood changing certain aspects 2.)the plot does kind of lose you,which is because of the first problem and 3.)more demons and special effects rather than the whole “witch!witch!” harping done in the final 45 minutes of the movie.
Still,the good outweighs the bad.SH and occult gore fans will enjoy this one.Roger Ebert is just a pompous,self-absorbed dinosouar who needs to retire.
Rating: 4 / 5