a dreadful mish-mash

Rating: 2/10 (23 March 2007)

I don't know anything about the video game and whether or not the movie follows the game. What I do know is this movie was terrible and the story didn't make sense.
A woman, Rose, takes her "weird" adopted daughter to Silent Hill, the name of the town the girl repeats while sleep walking. Some how the 2 along with a cop end up in some kind of alternate universe or maybe it was hell or somewhere in between. I don't know. It was never made clear. The husband goes to look for them and is in the same place the wife is but is in normal time. He can feel her presence but can't see her.
The woman must battle the darkness and eventually a group of witch burners. The whole part about witches made little sense. What I think is maybe the woman and daughter are dead and are in a parallel universe before you get to hell. The witch burners are in hell paying for their sins. There is a girl Alessa who was killed by them and is out for revenge. She some how creates the darkness which is made of gross, evil creatures out to destroy. But I really have no idea if I'm right because it was not explained in the movie.
The ending is weird. It's why I think the wife and daughter must be dead. They return home in the gray, ie. parallel world, and her husband is home, but they can't see each other.
FINAL VERDICT: Just plain weird. Not scary and makes little sense.