Silent Hill (2006)
10/10
It's one of the best video game adaptations I've seen in years.Effectively creepy atmosphere.
13 October 2014
This movie needs to be seen to be believed and to Mr Uwe Boll and Mr Paul WS Anderson I say, "Take notice. This is how survival horror should be done."Radha Mitchell is excellent as Rose and Jodelle Ferland will creep you out as Sharon. Laurie Holden plays the poor cop who finds herself chasing Rose into Silent Hill and Deborah Kara Unger is Dahlia Gillespie, who hides her own little secrets in the town that won't stay dead.Silent Hill captures everything a great horror film should, without falling back on those predict-a-scare moments that have become part of the genre's visual furniture. We have writer Roger Avary (Rules Of Attraction) and director Christophe Gans (Brotherhood Of The Wolf) to thank for that. I beg that Hollywood puts them together again to make a true sequel.Effectively creepy atmosphere. the closest you'll get to actually having a nightmare in a movie theatre outside of a midnight screening of David Lynch's Eraserhead. Just like the game, which is an achievement.Silent Hill is an unremittingly creepy municipality of the mind where motherhood, mystery and madness have come home to stay.No matter how you interpret the film, it's nearly impossible to deny what a beautiful work of art it is.SILENT HILL leaves a lot up to you to figure out, but gamers used to conventions like phasing in and out of alternate worlds should have no problem going along for the ride. Middle-aged critics are another story.If you like horror flicks, you'll like this one....
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