Silent Hill

Name: Silent Hill
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror
Released: April 21, 2006
Duration: 125 min
Rating: 31
Cast: Laurie Holden, Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean

2006

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TriStar Pictures | Release Date: April 21, 2006 | R

Starring: Laurie Holden, Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean

Summary: The 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 -- andThe 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 protests of her husband. [Sony Pictures]… Expand

Director: Christophe Gans

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror

Rating: R

Runtime: 125 min

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Nick Schager

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. Read full review

Empire James Dyer

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. Read full review

Jan Stuart

Works up a decent amount of solid, creep-show atmosphere in its first act before making some absurd decisions of its own in its second. Read full review

Bill Gallo

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. Read full review

Jason Anderson

Though Silent Hill's shoddy dialogue and incoherent story constantly irritate, several sights and scenes possess a certain surreal grandeur...Sadly, that's not enough to compensate for Silent Hill's utter lack of tension, intrigue, character development or satisfactory explanations for what the hell's happening on the screen. Read full review

Ernest Hardy

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. Read full review

Peter Hartlaub

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. Read full review

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Patrick67

Aug 12, 2012

This is perhaps the best movie based on a video game ever. The way it resembles the game (ex. visuals, music, story) make it truly a great film based on a video game series. If you played a Silent Hill game than this is all familiar to you and you will appreciate the awesomeness of the film.

8 of 10 users found this helpful82

Apr 21, 2006

The most bizarre movie I have ever seen. Fantastic visuals, stupid story (just like the games) And, just the games I loved it.

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MrS.

Sep 5, 2006

just look at the user reviews, for every 15 positive reviews there is 1 negative. and it looks like in my opinion that the critics got this one wrong as they do from time to time.

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AnthonyV.

Apr 22, 2006

Okay, the critics' average is 27 and the public average is 91. Something is very wrong here, perhaps? Not really. Movies like this and the Saw series are just doomed from the onset. The issue isn't whether or not film critics "get" Silent Hill or Saw. THEY DON'T WANT TO. Was Okay, the critics' average is 27 and the public average is 91. Something is very wrong here, perhaps? Not really. Movies like this and the Saw series are just doomed from the onset. The issue isn't whether or not film critics "get" Silent Hill or Saw. THEY DON'T WANT TO. Was there anything wrong with Silent Hill? Yes. The dialogue was embarassing. The handholding explanation near the end between Rose and ****** was overkill. But everything else was unbelievable. Sick. Amazing. It's just not a film critic's movie, especially a film critic who is too interested in faux-wit and elitism to write an objective film review just because it was based on a videogame (COUGH RAY BENNETT COUGH).… Expand

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luffyy

Jan 13, 2011

This movie is really, really good. That's a best movie based on game that I've ever seen. The director is succeed in bringing the horror atmosphere from game to film. But looks like he just do that movie for fans so it can't take a high score. That's so sad....

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AnnonZ.

Apr 21, 2006

Silent Hill wasn

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RoyR.

Apr 23, 2006

Some good visuals/sound brought this piece of crap up from negative to a zero rating!

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