There was a horror in the theatre, and it wasn't the movie!

Rating: 9/10 (24 April 2006)

I would like to start by saying that I really enjoyed Silent Hill. I am a huge fan of the games and I thought that the movie plot followed as close as it could for "Hollywood" standards. Let's face it, we all know that a movie can only go so far in this reality. I believe the director did a great job putting the movie together with parts of the game(better than anything attempted in the past), and it most closely resembled the first one in my opinion. I will need to go back and watch it again though because a)the plot had some big holes in it, and b) There was a horror in the theatre that night, and it wasn't in the movie. Let me just say I will probably never go to the movies on opening night ever again, unless I know I am gonna die the next day and even then I might not go. The audience was horrible.For example, Rose was just walking along and if she would misplace her foot, or when Cybil would curse the whole audience would start laughing! What the H*ll is wrong with people when they are laughing at a movie which isn't supposed to be a comedy! People were making so much noise I couldn't even hear the movie(now that's bad)most of the audience was scratching their heads and saying "huh?" the whole time which leads me to believe they didn't even know there was a game prior to the movie. I started cursing under my breath that they would all be visited by horrible nightmares when they went to sleep. I think there was one other gamer there besides my husband and I, and we were lucky enough to all sit together, trapped in an inferno of stupidity by the neanderthals around us, like the little group of gamers that we were. The movie was intense enough though, that by the time Anna got her skin ripped off everyone was "silent" heh heh (sorry for the pun, couldn't help it). So in all the movie was good, the audience was bad, and I know that most of those people were either drunk or without a brain stem, and if any of you brainstemless idiots are reading this I don't care, because you ruined a great theater experience for me and I hope you did have lots of nightmares. Everyone else who had this problem, I completely sympathize with you. Enjoy watching it a second time.