SummaryThe eerie and deserted town of Silent Hill draws a young mother desperate to find a cure for her only child's illness. Unable to accept the doctor's diagnosis that her daughter should be permanently institutionalized for psychiatric care, Rose (Mitchell) flees with her child, heading for the abandoned town in search of answers -- and ignoring the... Read More
Directed By:Christophe Gans
Written By:Roger Avary
Silent Hill
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31
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7.4
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Generally Unfavorable
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Despite its often-overwhelming nonsensicality, there’s ultimately something irresistibly fiendish about Silent Hill, which not only condemns holier-than-thou religious zealots, but also—if I understand its gruesome finale—seems to be firmly on the side of the Devil.
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Silent Hill's main attraction, for genre fans, certainly, lies not in its plot nor in its characters (you could place anyone in this particular township and whatever might happen, you could be sure it'd be unnerving), but in its relentlessly nightmarish imagery.
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7.4
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Jun 7, 2024
10
The best horror and psychological film of the century , With the best acting and the best direction, the result is something more than the adaptation of Silent Hill videogame , With its often disturbing scenes, you can feel the torment of hell and be on the way to heaven!
Mar 22, 2024
10
Love this movie and it's interesting theme being based off silent hill video games, and it's Smokey Underground fire theme, being from a real underground Coal fire that happened in Centralia, Pennsylvania in the 1960 and is still burning now to this day and expected to burn for another 200 years or more, it's not filmed there just the underground fire theme it's based off, the movie is filmed in Ontario, Canada, it's definitely better than the second move, but I still like to rewatch them both in a row a few times every year, I watched it before playing the video games but there's lots of people that give it very bad reviews cuz they want the story to be exactly as the video games are, Happens quite often when making a live action of a story to get bad reviews but personally it's one of my favorite movies.
40
Stuffed with cheap effects and devoid of tension, this French-Japanese-U.S. co-production contributes exactly zilch to the rich film history of those three nations; the most horror-crazed teen may be hard-pressed to find any authentic thrills here.
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In the end, Silent Hill degenerates into an overblown replay of all those "Twilight Zone" and Stephen King stories in which outsiders stumble upon a time-warped location from which there's no escape.
33
A few of the images are startling, but as Radha Mitchell (a good actress) wanders through a ghost town, searching for her lost daughter as though she was touring an abandoned movie set, Silent Hill is mostly paralyzing in its vagueness.
20
Witless, soulless and joyless, it displays its video game origins throughout.
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Silent Hill has plenty of bad acting, bad dialogue and a confusing plot -- all of which become exponentially more painful when the movie goes on forever.
Jan 10, 2023
10
Der beste Horrorfilm Bestimmt 30 mal geguckt Ich habe noch nie erlebt das ein Spiel so gut verfilmt wurde
Oct 3, 2022
6
Taken from the video game of the same name, the film is quite beautiful and also quite faithful to the settings of the video game. Frightening the righteous and also very sad, perhaps too much.
Jan 11, 2019
6
Plenty of better horrors out there, but as far as video game adaptations are concerned, this one isn't half bad.
Oct 25, 2020
3
Aside from a few good scenes, this movie is nonsensical and abysmal. 28/100
Apr 26, 2019
3
This didn't need to be a two-hour film. It dragged on way too long at times and it just never sits right with me. I think they get the atmosphere right for the most part but that's about it. Sean Bean does a good job but the rest of the cast leaves a lot more to be desired, Some of the acting in this film more is just so blunt and straightforward, It was like they just couldn't put forth the effort to convey any sense of emotion.
Production Company:
- Silent Hill DCP Inc.
- Davis Films
- Konami
Release Date:Apr 21, 2006
Duration:2 h 5 m
Rating:R
Tagline:Enjoy your stay.
Awards
Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
• 4 Nominations
Directors Guild of Canada
• 1 Nomination
Australian Film Institute
• 1 Nomination
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