great effects

Rating: 8/10 (22 April 2006)

I have never seen such fine gore and frightening visions as in this film. All fans of the games as well as the genre should enjoy this movie. The actors blend in with their parts and the flow of the fright is not interrupted even when the action moves between the real and the "other" world. The creatures seem to be ripped from the game's world, and should be a connection to the gamers in the audience, while being a shock to the senses of the rest of the watchers. The misty world of Silent Hill is a proper backdrop to the horror within, and the "end of the world" views at the proper points in the film only increase the isolation of that realm. Filled with beings, fanatics, and "regular" folk give the movie all the variation of a finely cooked dinner - if that dinner were served on a morgue slab in the pits of Hell. To truly enjoy this movie, just sit back, open your mind as well as your eyes and take the ride of your nightmares come to hideous un-life. Remember one thing, not everything you see is what it seems, especially in the town of Silent Hill