• Director: Christophe Gans
• With: Sean Bean, Radha Mitchell, Laurie Holden, Deborah Kara Unger, Kim Coates, Alice Krige, Jodelle Ferland, Tanya Allen
• Music by: Jeff Danna & Akira Yamaoka
• Duration: 2h5
• Studio: Focus Features / Davis Films
• Based upon the game ‘Silent Hill’
• Rating: 8/10

Synopsis:

Sharon Da Silva wakes up every night screaming about “Silent Hill”. Pursued by a police officer suspicious of her motives and swerving to avoid another child, her adoptive mother Rose crashes the car, knocking herself unconscious. When Rose awakens to find Sharon is missing, she searches the fog- and ash-blanketed town for her beloved daughter.

Review:

I never really played the games of Silent Hill apart from seeing someone play it. But I do remember the eerie feeling it gave me when I witnessed it.

That same eerie feeling is found in this movie. This comes mainly from Gans’ directing but also because the music in this movie is from the original game, although the studio insisted a Canadian composer added some new music.

This movie is a creepfest with a giant with a pyramid head and a huge knife, burning ghostly babies and strange nurses drawn by light while the town of Silent Hill is deserted with a rain of ash and a decent into a burning Hell. And the few human beings that live in Silent Hill are even worse than the creatures roaming the buildings.

The cult that created the horrors of Silent Hill are demonic and inspired by religious beliefs they burned the girl that created these horrors.

And when Rose Da Silva and her daughter Sharon end up in the town of Silent Hill they will not only witness these horror but become part of the story! And there is no way out!

The VFX of this movie isn’t spectacularly good but because it brings the same eerie feeling of the games it actually doesn’t matter much whether it is good or not. It feels like you’re watching one of those cutscenes in the games.

And honestly the way the town changes from the misty town to the hellish town is just fantastic! It adds so much to the horror element!