Take A Dark Ride Into Silent Hill's Purgatory

Rating: 9/10 (29 February 2016)

A creepy dark story that captures you from the beginning to end. I have never played the game, but the DVD extras helps the viewer so much if their confused. The movie is about a mother and daughter who travel to Silent Hill, West Virginia, from Ohio. Radha Mitchell(Rose), is a mother trying to get help/ answers for her daughter, Sharon(Jodelle Ferland). Before they arrive Rose and Sharon get into a car accident, near Silent Hill. A Brahms police officer, Cybil Bennett(Laurie Holden); Is also involved in the wreck. Bennett followed them to Silent Hill, and pulled Rose over because she was concerned for the child's welfare.
After the crash Rose follows a child who looks exactly like Sharon in the town of Silent Hill. Once there Rose is plunged into this strange world of Silent Hill's past. Eventually, Bennett catches up with her and both are plunged into a purgatory type world . Meanwhile Chris(Sean Bean), Rose's husband comes to Silent hill in search of his wife. Once there he meets a Brahms police officer, Gucci(Kim Coats). Gucci explains Silent Hill's past to Chris while searching for Rose, and Sharon. While searching for Rose, Chris seems to sense his wife's presence; but can't find her. Gucci thinks Chris has become hysterical. While Rose, Sharon, and Officer Bennett are in the gray world of Silent Hill. It seems like Chris and Gucci are in present of Silent Hill.Gucci goes on to explain about the coal fire's that still burn some 30 years later, and about the radicals that would have town meetings. They were like the towns cultist with a fanatical leader, Christabella(Alice Kruig. They would meet in the early 70's and try to purge the evil from Alissa, because she was the only child without a father. Christabella would try to get answers from Alissa's mother, Dahlia(Debra Kara Unger), on the father. When it flashes back to the 70's when Alissa was young,you see, the taunts, the fires, and the rituals that were done to Alessia and Dahlia. While Rose and Bennett are in the gray part of Silent Hill, they meet Christabella and the radicals. Rose escapes their wrath while Bennett is eventually sacrificed. When Rose meets Alissa, she is amazed by the likeness between her and Sharon. The only way Rose can escape Silent Hill's dark world is to learn about Alissa, the dark past of the town, and some of town's ritualistic members and their ways.
I love this psychological thriller, the story is different and can be confusing. The history of Silent Hill's past and present, and what the monster's represent is very interesting. I even had to do a little research on the Movie on the net concerning this. The only thing I found odd about the movie was the time-line. Alissa has to be Sharon's birth mother; but there is a plot hole concerning this. Also if Officer Gucci was one of the officer's during the burning back in the 70's why hasn't he aged? The ending was strange, even though Rose and Sharon escaped Silent Hill, they are still trapped a purgatory state. Yes, this movie had some minor flaws; but it is still one of the better horror films of the 21st Century.