Wonderful if you have played the games, if not it may confuse.

Rating: 8/10 (27 April 2006)

First off let me make one thing clear, this is in no way a direct port of any of the popular games. It is rather a combination of factors of the four. There was no way they could take four games that run 8 hours or more in play time and condense them into a 2 hour movie no matter how hard they tried. Since different aspects of the mysterious towns background are explained in each of the games, the film makers chose to use characters and make references to the different titles to come up with a somewhat original story. Now i have played all the way through the first 3 games and am currently working on number 4 and i enjoyed this film quite a bit. But then I had some idea behind what is showed in the film, like what some of the monsters represent and why things are happening to the town. There are three versions of Silent Hill, normal silent hill, what you might see if passing by, alternate silent hill which is shrouded in fog and mystery, and dark silent hill, not a place the tourists would like to visit. During the movie all three are explored as the story unfolds and the main character tries to find her daughter. If you have not played the games the movie might confuse and even disturb you, as I said, I have played them and some parts bothered me. All that said though, this is by far the best game to movie released thus far. Gamers should not be to disappointed, and non gamers, well you might not quite enjoy it as much.