Pretty effective adaptation of "Silent Hill" video game series.

Rating: 8/10 (27 May 2006)

In this rather faithful adaptation,mother Rose(Radha Mitchell)takes daughter Sharon(Jodelle Ferland)to the ghostly town of Silent Hill.It is a town with a daemonic past that harbors a dark secret at its burning core.After Sharon is captured by a fanatical cult,Rose must make a pact with evil to get her back."Silent Hill" is a pretty good horror film that packs a few creepy moments and offers a nicely ambiguous conclusion.The town of Silent Hill looks very eerie and the periods of darkness are ominous.Visually "Silent Hill" is seriously great;well-directed and with gruesome effects that resulted in some disturbing imagery.The environments and sets for Silent Hill itself are quite creepy and interesting,and true to the game.Unfortunately the characters are one-dimensional,the scares are almost completely absent and there is only a little bit of gore.Still the monsters look amazing and a couple of killings are truly gruesome.However the script by Roger Avary is rather mediocre and the dialogue becomes increasingly worse as the story goes on.Overall,"Silent Hill" is a vast improvement over such horrible adaptations of video games like "Doom" or "House of the Dead",but as a fan of "Silent Hill" games I expected more.7 out of 10.