Silent Hill

Name: Silent Hill
Director: Christophe Gans
Released: 2006

Christophe Gans

2006

3.00

Synopsis

Rose, a desperate mother takes her adopted daughter, Sharon, to the town of Silent Hill in an attempt to cure her of her ailment. After a violent car crash, Sharon disappears and Rose begins a desperate search to get her back. She descends into the center of the twisted reality of a town's terrible secret. Pursued by grotesquely deformed creatures and townspeople stuck in permanent purgatory, Rose begins to uncover the truth behind the apocalyptic disaster that burned the town 30 years earlier.

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Cast

Radha MitchellRose Da Silva
Sean BeanChristopher Da Silva
Jodelle FerlandSharon / Alessa
Laurie HoldenCybil Bennett
Deborah Kara UngerDahlia Gillespie
Kim CoatesOfficer Thomas Gucci
Tanya AllenAnna
Alice KrigeChristabella
Nicky GuadagniDistressed Woman
Maxine DumontChristabella's Aide

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63
ReelViews
It packs in a few scary moments and offers a nicely ambiguous conclusion. In Silent Hill, atmosphere trumps storyline.
60
Empire
A step in the right direction for console-to-screen transitions and a twisted masterpiece of set design. Ultimately, though, it's a little too much like watching someone else play the game.
50
TV Guide Magazine
Runs out of story a good half hour before it runs out of spooky images, but it comes to a quietly chilling conclusion far more haunting than any bloody mayhem.
40
Variety
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.
38
Chicago Sun-Times
Although I did not understand the story, I would have appreciated a great deal less explanation. All through the movie, characters are pausing in order to offer arcane back-stories and historical perspectives and metaphysical insights and occult orientations. They talk and talk and somehow their words do not light up any synapses in my brain.
30
L.A. Weekly
Buried beneath Silent Hill’s hyper-stylized stupidity (the film looks like a collaboration between David Fincher, Trent Reznor and music video director Mark Romanek) is the hollow effort to bottle something of the zeitgeist unease surrounding religious fundamentalism.
25
New York Daily News
The worst kind of horror movie: trash that takes itself seriously.
25
New York Post
A great-looking but stupefyingly incoherent supernatural thriller adapted from a popular video game that ransacks the entire catalog of horror film tropes for more than two mind-numbing hours.

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