Silent Hill (2006)

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It’s immediately clear that her destination – left alone since devastating coal fires ravaged Silent Hill -- is unlike any place she's ever been: smothered by fog, inhabited by a variety of strange, haunted beings, and periodically overcome by a living Darkness that literally transforms everything it touches. As Rose searches for her daughter, she begins to learn the history of Silent Hill – its violent, puritanical past and the origins of its accursed state -- and realizes that her daughter is just part of a larger, more terrifying

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External Reviews

...This is an improvement over game-to-movie clunkers like Resident Evil and Doom, but it shows that filmmakers have more work to do if they want to make a movie with appeal that spreads beyond a core audience. It's somewhat of a mystery, however, why Sony didn't hold any advance screenings. Silent Hill does not reek of the rot that usually clings to movies withheld from the critics until opening day. 

Silent Hill is probably the closest you'll get to actually having a nightmare in a movie theatre outside of a midnight screening of David Lynch's Eraserhead. 

--Keith Breese (MovieWeb)

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This movie needs to be seen to be believed and to Mr Uwe Boll and Mr Paul W S Anderson I say, "Take notice. This is how survival horror should be done."

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The movie is like a cross between House of a 1,000 Corpses, Mad Max: Thunderdome and a lost Michael Jackson video, and it doesn't make a lick of sense. 

--Peter Howell

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At its best, Silent Hill conjures a Bosch-like world of surreal, apocalyptic nightmares that's at least fun to look at. C-

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...lurches to three different finales, all completely unsatisfying storywise, but thrilling in their promise that someone has finally made Gans stop the tedium. 

--Brian Orndorf (eFilmCritic.com)

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SILENT HILL is a pretty picture to look at with little or no horror to match what fans have felt while playing the game. It seems, thanks to the set decorators, the most dangerous thing in SILENT HILL just might be tetanus.

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The potential for success here is astonishing, and as good as this thing is technically it’s nearly just as bad every which way else making “Silent Hill” a chilling ghost story where the only scares come from knowing just how good this could – should – have been. 

--Sara M. Fetters

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Scriptwriter Roger Avary’s clumsy storytelling is also problematic, with confusing shifts between the haunted town’s different time/space dimensions.

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Actually didn't scare me nearly as much as the games… maybe I should try playing with popcorn and a soda from now on?

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No, Silent Hill is not even close to being a great movie but it succeeds in giving the audience what they paid for. If you want to be creeped out of your wits for two hours, this is your ticket. If you want good acting and a compelling narrative, go elsewhere. 

--Lee Chase IV

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If you like horror flicks, you'll like this, the atmosphere and the monsters are great, the plot gets interesting as we go along, and the acting is tops. 

--Eric Lurio

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Ultimately "Silent Hill" proves too much of a good thing. Mitchell's the good thing; everything else is simply too much.

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Directed by

Christophe Gans Brotherhood of the Wolf, Crying Freeman, Necronomicon

Written by

Roger Avary Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Phantasm's End

Cast

Radha Mitchell Finding Neverland, Pitch Black, Man on Fire Sean Bean The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Laurie Holden Fantastic Four, The Majestic, Young Catherine Deborah Unger The Game, Payback, The Hurricane Kim Coates Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000, Hostage, The Last Boy Scout Tanya Allen Liberty Stands Still, Regeneration, Tail Lights Fade Alice Krige Star Trek: First Contact, Reign of Fire, Chariots of Fire [more]

Music By

Jeff Danna Resident Evil: Apocalypse, The Boondock Saints, O Akira Yamaoka Silent Hill 2, Silent Hill, Silent Hill 3

I think anyone who likes a good Lovecraftian horror film should enjoy themselves immensely. --'Tom Servo' Given a lengthy running time to set his stage for poetic imagery and spooky set pieces, Gans' deliberately paced adaptation is actually quite accessible even for non-gamers, right down to the ambiguous epilogue that makes you rethink the entire movie. --Bill DeLapp The film's peculiar rhythms—action, exposition, action, exposition—betray its video-game roots, but audiences unfamiliar with the Silent Hill series can be forgiven for thinking that the game asks players to run from place to place, shouting a little girl's name at the top of their lungs. I can tell you, after two or so hours of this, I wanted to get out of the theater a whole lot worse than Rose wanted to get out of Silent Hill. -4

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