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Silent Hill

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Unable to accept the fact that her daughter is dying, Rose (Radha Mitchell) decides to take the girl to a faith healer. On the way, the pair drive through a portal in reality, leading to an eerie town called Silent Hill. The town is surrounded by a potent darkness, and the human survivors fight a losing battle against it.
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Silent Hill is visually impressive, but as with many video game adaptations, it's plagued by inane dialogue, a muddled plot, and an overlong runtime.

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Chris Stuckmann ChrisStuckmann.com Where this movie shines is in its disturbing imagery, its very creepy visuals, and the stunning production design. Rated: B Oct 24, 2019 Full Review Brian Tallerico UGO Silent Hill starts out at point A and then goes so quickly, loudly and visually over-the-top that it flies completely off the rails into its own glorious weirdness. Mar 24, 2007 Full Review Paul Byrnes Sydney Morning Herald More deadly than silent. Rated: 2/5 Aug 25, 2006 Full Review Grant Watson Fiction Machine Concentrate on the design of the piece, and Silent Hill is a very effective and perverse fantasy thriller. Pay too much attention to the writing, and it will become a a much more hollow, unedifying experience. Rated: 6/10 Feb 11, 2025 Full Review Brian Bisesi Horror Movie Club Podcast While this adaptation was surprisingly faithful to the game, when told through the medium of film the plot is a bloated and confusing mess. It is hard to connect with the film’s characters in the onslaught of horror imagery and exposition dumps. Rated: 2/5 May 22, 2024 Full Review Eddie Harrison film-authority.com …Silent Hill is no masterpiece, the plotting is lopsided, the climax confusing and somewhat repellently violent in a Clive Barker way, but it’s also a strong, female-driven story with exquisite visuals and sound design… Rated: 3/5 Jun 4, 2023 Full Review Read all reviews

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J H It looks great and has a very creepy atmosphere. Unfortunately, the script is absolute rubbish. I mean, burn the witch? Really? Rated 2 out of 5 stars 04/22/25 Full Review Brad S. R Remarkably free of anything remotely scary, this ghost story relies on heaps of style to cover its quite thin plot until the action culminates on a gruesome, but fantastically un-thrilling climax. The game must certainly be better than this. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 04/03/25 Full Review Me a A great sense of dread and eeriness in this film Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/23/25 Full Review Ventsislav Y Great game adaptation. Lacks bit of better writing and dialogues Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/08/25 Full Review K K Creepy movie. I have watched this movie multiple times. The strong ensemble cast really delivered in their parts. The mom willing to do whatever to get her kid, the dad wanting to save both, the cop trying to serve justice and protect people (this cop was a hero). The movie is more gross than scary. Among the storylines are things relating to bigotry, using religion as a weapon to outcast people or worse, abuse and kill. The storyline really has some complexities going on. The music was fantastic, dark, intense and connected. Agan is not really a horror movie, rather a drama with some gross moments. The visuals are quite interesting and grotesque/macabre. I had no clue on the game it derives from but followed along and found the story fascinating. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/08/25 Full Review Jacob B This film is so frustrating, only because I can see a great movie lurking underneath what is on the screen. The set design is outstanding and the visuals are fantastic. The problem lies within the script. The director seems like he’s in such as rush to get to the ghouls and demons that he ignores any build up or plausible motivation for the main characters to launch head first into the ghost town. Once there, too many concurrent plots/subplots and flashbacks make the story line muddled (it’s easy enough to follow, just terribly messy execution), enough so that you eventually give up and just enjoy the beautiful set pieces. Had the creators slowed down, given the characters time to live within the film and develop the themes, and if they had trusted the audience enough to attempt a slow burn of a horror film instead of throwing every video game creature at them every four minutes for fear they might get bored, it could’ve been a very good film. As it stands, it’s a beautiful horror film to look at, with a wasted cast ( Sean Bean and the always fascinating Alice Kirge ) and wasted potential…..but it’s still worth a shot! Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/06/25 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Unable to accept the fact that her daughter is dying, Rose (Radha Mitchell) decides to take the girl to a faith healer. On the way, the pair drive through a portal in reality, leading to an eerie town called Silent Hill. The town is surrounded by a potent darkness, and the human survivors fight a losing battle against it.
Director
Christophe Gans
Producer
Don Carmody, Samuel Hadida
Screenwriter
Roger Avary, Nicolas Boukhrief, Christophe Gans, Roger Roberts
Distributor
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Production Co
TriStar Pictures, Davis Films
Rating
R (Some Language|Disturbing Images|Strong Horror Violence/Gore)
Genre
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Apr 21, 2006, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Apr 16, 2012
Box Office (Gross USA)
$47.0M
Runtime
1h 59m
Sound Mix
Dolby SRD, DTS, SDDS
Aspect Ratio
Scope (2.35:1)
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