This is the type of Horror Movie I would create.

Rating: 9/10 (19 August 2006)

Horror, Sci-Fi, and Fantasy are the three major types of books, movies and video games I like. I seldom have anything to do with anything else. I have seen thousands of movies, being a bit of a horror aficionado, and I have seen virtually all of them, even B-grade Japanese and Italian creations. Of these horror films, very few stand out, and frankly, most of them suck. The typical slasher film is the most boring, the most overworked theme, and I hate such films with a passion. I love horror movies best when dark, disturbing and possessing a large element of the Supernatural. Certain movies have become huge hits and changed the genre considerably, from the low budget Blair Witch, to the famous Nightmare on Elm Street series, or the Friday the 13th series or the Halloween series. Additionally, I love a good horror spoof, and the Scary Movie series (now with 4 movies out) are the best. It will be interesting if Silent Hill is spoofed in Scary Movie 5, should they make such a movie. Viewing reality as dull, boring, insipid and inherently absurd and stupid, esp. human society, I prefer a book, movie or game that for a short time gives me some respite, some escape from the idiotic modern world and its stupid safe-society laws. Silent Hill is just such a movie that for a short time, takes you out of this boring world and puts you in a world that is like this one, only dark and twisted at the core. A good horror director can make the commonplace frightening or twisted. Having seen so many movies, I'm working on a script now for a horror movie to end all horror movies. A movie that shows that a dark core hides beneath Nature and the Human World. To some extent, Silent Hill beat me to it. For people who tire of the same ol' same ol' teen slasher movies---do horror directors hate teenagers more than other groups?. I can't stand slasher movies and zombie movies because they are so overworked, so boring. I also despise movies where the villains or monsters are made of cardboard: dull, boring and unbelievable. A good Horror movie makes you temporarily believe in the Supernatural, in evil, in the monstrous. If it can't, then the movie has failed. Silent Hill is based on a video games series created by a Japanese writer and have the darkest themes ever put in a video games. For years now Hollywood writers have gotten stuck in a rut and are pushing out the same trash over and over again. Some directors are finding in video games, in comic books, and escapist fiction a cure for the disease of Hollywood normalcy and boredom. In such fiction, anything is possible, any theme is viable, and the imagination is allowed to run wild. I rather like that. Where the typical Horror director is spinning out yet another stupid zombie movie, or slasher movie, the director of Silent Hill gave us a treat for Horror fans, a bit of rain after a long long Horror drought. A few modern films of late have stood out from the crap surrounding them like The Ring, Saw (Inventive theme, I like that), etc. Of these Silent Hill is the darkest, boldest and was probably one of the most difficult movies to ever make due to the extreme attention to detail.
Modern audiences expect a lot, and there is no excuse to ruin a good story by a low budget and lousy affects. The effects in Silent Hill caught me by surprise. I won't spoil it for you, but you can discover the truth for yourself in the Special Features section of the DVD. The movie Silent Hill, tho' is not a movie rendition of a particular video game, but rather a movie that captures the essence of the strange world of Silent Hill. Frankly, my home town is so boring, I think I'd move to Silent Hill for something different. I am strange and dark and twisted myself. This movie was made for me and my kind. Buy it, rent it, steal it. You haven't seen real Horror until you've seen this masterpiece.