Could have been a better movie

Rating: 5/10 (11 July 2017)

"Silent Hill", a game adaption, tells the story of an adoptive mother, who brings her daughter to a town she keeps talking about in her sleep. Once there, she loses her tracks and has to experience that this town keeps some secrets that had better be kept buried.
First of all, I haven't played the game, so I really can't tell if the film suits them. However, I like the general topic very much, where the girl keeps screaming the name of the town and the two of them experience horror once they arrive there. What I didn't like so much were all the creatures. For me, a more subtle kind of horror that focuses more on the humans and the girl would have created an even scarier atmosphere, than some fantasy demons arising from nowhere. That's why, in my opinion, the second part of the movie with the church kind of saved the film from becoming just another monster splatter. In some of the situations it is easier to adopt than in others, which makes it hard to give a homogeneous overall experience.
All in all this isn't a bad movie but it could have been way better if some of the monster action would have been transformed into something more subtle. I see potential, though.