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Silent Hill (2006)

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Reviews Counted:89

Fresh:26

Rotten:63

Average Rating:4.5/10

Consensus: Silent Hill is visually impressive, but as with many video game adaptations, it’s plagued by inane dialogue, a muddled plot, and an overlong runtime.

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Rated: R [See Full Rating] for strong horror violence and gore, disturbing images, and some language

Runtime: 2 hr. 5 min.

Genre: Action & Adventure, Horror

Theatrical Release: Apr 21, 2006 Wide

Box Office: $47M

Synopsis: The eerie and deserted ghost town of Silent Hill draws a young mother desperate to find a cure for her only child's illness. Unable to accept the... The eerie and deserted ghost 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 flees with her child, heading for the abandoned town in search of answers -- and ignoring the protests of her husband. It's soon clear this place is unlike anywhere she's ever been. It's smothered by fog, inhabited by a variety of strange beings and periodically overcome by a living "darkness" that literally transforms everything it touches. As Rose begins to learn the history of the strange town, she realizes that her daughter is just a pawn in a larger game. [More]

Starring: Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean, Laurie Holden, Deborah Kara Unger

Starring: Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean, Laurie Holden, Deborah Kara Unger, Kim Coates, Tanya Allen, Alice Krige, Jodelle Ferland, Colleen Williams, Ron Gabriel, Eve Crawford, Derek Ritschel, Amanda Hiebert, Nicky Guadagni, Maxine Dumont, Christopher Britton, Stephen R. Hart, Simon Richards, Ian White, Elizabeth Harpur, Janet Land, Florence MacGregor, Lynn Woodman, Hannah Fleming, Holly Makarchuk, Tatiana Haas, Roberto Campanella, Mike Cota, Yvonne Yuen Nan Ng, Lorry Ayers, Donna Milburn, Nadia Barosso, Noelle Boggio, Victoria Boland, Rhoslynne Bugay, Alicia Bundy, Carrie Clayton, Rachel Crowther, Zsuzzana Cseh, Judit Kovacs, Stephanie Lauder, Chantelle Leonardo, Emily Lineham, Onika Ndukwe, Katherine Olsen, Melissa Panton, Sylwia Pluta, Lisa Shaw, Tamara Smeaton, Nicole Ann St. Hill

Director: Christophe Gans

Director: Christophe Gans
Screenwriter:
Producer: Samuel Hadida, Don Carmody
Distributor: Sony Pictures

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Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | comment Comment
Jul 6, 2010
Brett Michel
Brett Michel
Boston Phoenix

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Full Review Source: Movies.com | comment Comment
Jul 6, 2010
Dave White
Dave White
Movies.com

Visually arresting but only sporadically enthralling.

Full Review Source: Baltimore City Paper | comment Comment
Jan 22, 2010
Gary Dowell
Gary Dowell
Baltimore City Paper

I wouldn't rush to see it again, but I would definitely recommend it...

Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | comment Comment
Apr 29, 2009
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed

Whilst not as atrocious as some other films that have opened this year, the truely woeful story and quality of Silent is saved only by its occasion moments of visual flair, and its all over effective creepy atmosphere.

Full Review Source: Dark Horizons | comment Comment
Jan 15, 2008
Garth Franklin
Garth Franklin
Dark Horizons

When everything starts being explained, the mystery evaporates and the world of the game loses its eerie bafflement.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment 2 Comments
Oct 31, 2007
Rob Gonsalves
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com

The latest, most ambitious and perhaps least comprehensible video game adaptation in recent memory.

Full Review Source: Big Picture Big Sound | comment Comment
Jul 14, 2007
Joe Lozito
Joe Lozito
Big Picture Big Sound

If you like your nightmares served upfront without the clutter of dramatic structure, then Silent Hill should be your next stop.

Full Review Source: DVD Review | comment Comment
Jul 10, 2007
Felix Gonzalez Jr.
Felix Gonzalez Jr.
DVD Review

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.

Full Review Source: Film4 | comment Comment
Jun 15, 2007
Anton Bitel
Anton Bitel
Film4

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.

Full Review Source: UGO | comment Comment
Mar 24, 2007
Brian Tallerico
Brian Tallerico
UGO

Director Christophe Gans charges, hell-bent, right over the plot and winds up with not much more than an oppressive 125-minute running time.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
Sep 8, 2006
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

More deadly than silent.

Full Review Source: Sydney Morning Herald | comment Comment
Aug 25, 2006
Paul Byrnes
Paul Byrnes
Sydney Morning Herald

Over long with a muddled story and a gaggle of wasted talent, Silent Hill is a spectacular misfire.

Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | comment Comment
Aug 25, 2006
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Urban Cinefile

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?

Full Review Source: Sci-Fi Weekly | comment Comment
Aug 23, 2006
Michael Szymanski
Michael Szymanski
Sci-Fi Weekly

the closest you’ll get to actually having a nightmare in a movie theatre outside of a midnight screening of David Lynch’s Eraserhead.

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
Aug 21, 2006
Keith Breese
Keith Breese
Filmcritic.com

There's absolutely nothing of merit here to discuss other than its loyalty to the original source material.

Full Review Source: Bullz-Eye.com | comment Comment
Aug 19, 2006
Jason Zingale
Jason Zingale
Bullz-Eye.com

While Gans admittedly shows us some pretty spooky stuff, his energy begins to flag somewhere around the 60-minute mark.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
Jul 13, 2006
Ethan Alter
Ethan Alter
Film Journal International

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.

Full Review Source: Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema | comment Comment
May 13, 2006
Mark Pfeiffer
Mark Pfeiffer
Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema

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.

Full Review Source: Q Network Film Desk | comment 2 Comments
May 13, 2006
James Kendrick
James Kendrick
Q Network Film Desk

Just like the game, which is an achievement and a disappointment all in one.

Full Review Source: Cinerina | comment 1 Comment
May 11, 2006
Karina Montgomery
Karina Montgomery
Cinerina
 
 
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