although it is rarely if ever jump-out-of-your-seat scary, Silent Hill is an unremittingly creepy municipality of the mind where motherhood, mystery and madness have come home to stay.
Silent Hill (2006)
Runtime: 2 hrs 5 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Starring: Radha Mitchell, Laurie Holden, Sean Bean, Deborah Unger, Tanya Allen
DVD Info
Release:
Oct 8, 2007
DVD Features:
- Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
- Subtitles - English - Optional
- Subtitles - English - Closed Captioned
Additional Release Material:
- Behind The Scenes - Making Of - 1. "Silent Hill Origins"
- 2. "Casting Silent Hill"
- 3. "Building Silent Hill"
- 4. "Stars & Stunts"
- 5. "Creatures Unleashed"
- 6. "Creature Choreography"
Reviews
French director Christophe Gans’s adaptation of the Silent Hill computer game is visually inspired and thematically ambitious, yet ultimately uninvolving.
It's this unwavering fidelity to the source material that is also the film's biggest problem.
When everything starts being explained, the mystery evaporates and the world of the game loses its eerie bafflement.
If you like your nightmares served upfront without the clutter of dramatic structure, then Silent Hill should be your next stop.
Silent Hill starts out at point A and then goes so quickly, loudly and visually over-the-top that it flies completely off the rails into its own glorious weirdness.
Director Christophe Gans charges, hell-bent, right over the plot and winds up with not much more than an oppressive 125-minute running time.
Over long with a muddled story and a gaggle of wasted talent, Silent Hill is a spectacular misfire.
As a fluke, I took my mom (also named Rose) to the screening. She doesn't like SF or horror and doesn't even know what a video game is, yet she ended up really liking it! How weird is that?
the closest you’ll get to actually having a nightmare in a movie theatre outside of a midnight screening of David Lynch’s Eraserhead.
While Gans admittedly shows us some pretty spooky stuff, his energy begins to flag somewhere around the 60-minute mark.
As a nightmarish vision of hell on earth, Silent Hill is a triumph of production and art design. As a coherent story, it's little more than a string of video game scenarios.
Silent Hill is like an endurance test to get to the “'truth', but it's ultimately a gyp because it still doesn't make sense when you get there.
Just like the game, which is an achievement and a disappointment all in one.
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