Silent Hill (2006)

Not a great horror film - but not too bad. It's your standard modern day horror-thriller without a lot of thrills. For me, the only reason to watch the movie is for the beginning and ending with Sean Bean - outside of that it's just mediocre. 5/10

Without doubt one of the best movie adaptions of a game: full pro production, good actors (Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean, Jodelle Ferland), directing (Christophe Gans, the guy who directed Crying Freeman and Le pacte des loups!) and last but not least superb "graphics" and an intense sinister atmosphere. If you like(d) to play the game, I guess, you already watched the movie or if not, if you will, you will like the movie too. The second movie Silent Hill: Revelation is for sure not as strong as this one, but despite many negative critics, I like the sequel too.For the connoisseur of horror and thriller indeed Silent Hill is a great pleasure..

Silent Hill is a 2006 horror movie directed by Christophe Gans,after a script by Roger Avary,Christophe Gans and Nicolas Boukhrief.Rose DA Silva is a mother who notices that her daughter,Sharon,has a strange behavior.When Sharon disappears in Silent Hill,a village that has been abandoned for many years,she goes to look for her,but she notices that there are different strange creatures and discovers that the survivors hide in a church.In the end,she needs to make a pact with a ghost to save her daughter.From my point of view,Silent Hill is an excellent horror movie with well-placed details and with an interesting story.I saw it five or six times and I still like it.Source:www.wikipedia.ro

Intrigued by a ghost town that her daughter keeps mentioning in her sleep, a concerned mother drives there and finds herself contending with monsters that may or may not be real when her daughter goes missing in this moody horror film. 'Silent Hill' is atmospheric right from the get-go and much of its nightmarish imagery leaves an indelible impression, but adapted from a popular video game, the film never quite gels as a cohesive narrative. While evidently desperate to stop her daughter sleepwalking, Radha Mitchell's protagonist is rather hard to relate to; her decision to break down fences to take her daughter to a town full of toxic fumes never once seems rational, and it is all her own fault that her daughter gets lost. There are some creepy moments to be had as she goes in and out of abandoned, dilapidated buildings for quite a while, but it is not until around 90 minutes in that the film bothers to try to explain any of the bizarre happenings, and when it does, it comes in the form of a monologue that goes on for minutes on end. In short, the mythology of the movie is too complex for its own good. The special effects ridden scenes in the final quarter of the movie also pale against the suggestiveness of the initial shots of the town. 'Silent Hill' has at least a couple of good scares and the music and set design are first-rate, but as a narrative, it comes up a little short.