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Rating: 3/10 (14 May 2006)

oh dear.. i saw the trailer for silent hill, and expected to be scared. i am not good with horror films, and silent hill looked like i might have needed a change of underwear from the trailer. wrong. this was really not scary in the slightest. i think it was really the use of monsters that took a film with the potential of being really scary to being just ridiculous. i think that in this day and age, with the amount of horror films and video games about that directors should have realised that the big weird creature things that they insisted on cramming into silent hill, just weren't scary any more. whats more, i was completely confused about the end. what the crap happened to them? did they die, did they get sucked into a vortex, was any of it actually real? if someone could enlighten me on this issue i would appreciate it. i think the special effects were good, and the overall impression i got from this film was that it was quite cool. but not scary. at all. and to the people who say 'if you played the game you would enjoy it more' i say no. i played the games, and loved them. if anything it made me hate the film more, cause the director just killed some great, scary games.