Very well done

Rating: 8/10 (15 January 2007)

I've seen Silent Hill several times. I was reluctant to see it in theaters because I had never played the games before and every other video game movie until then had sucked a lot. However, being an avid video game fan, I had to see it for the sake that it was a VG movie.
I was impressed. I'm sick of the crap that people excuse for horror and this one finally did something different. It wasn't your average everyday "I'm doing to jump out and scare the audience while gutting the horny teenager, wow I didn't see that coming" scary. It was "oh, my God, what the hell is that walking behind her" scary. I was creeped out by the movie. My friend is now driving home after watching the movie and is afraid of crapping his pants just walking in the door of his house.
About a month later, I played Silent Hill 2. I immediately recognized the feel. The creepy noises, the eerie hallways, the sadistic looking monsters. Everything. In fact, after watching the movie after playing the game, I respected it a lot more. The monsters were very detailed and very well done. Yes, I'll admit the creepy nurses with the sexy bodies was a little American-horror-ish, but the way they moved still scared the hell out of me.
It did have its flaws. While the movie started out following the game rather closely, the end started to have a different feel to it. It wasn't really the game anymore after Rose finds Alessa in the hospital.
The ending still upsets me but that's okay. I think any ending to any Silent Hill game I've played (SH2 and SH4) has left me kind of feeling bewildered.