Goddammit

Rating: 1/10 (9 October 2006)

I remember saying upon first hearing about the movie release that if the director ruined this opportunity i'd ice him myself, anyone got his address?:P The fact is it ain't that bad a film, well, it is, but it could have been worse. The acting was OK for the most part and the horror element is, em, well it could have been worse:P. everything else, however, is way off.
I fell in love with silent hill way back when Lara's tits were 2 sample polygons and the scariest part of resident evil was the acting in the opening credits. Every detail of it was perfect from the schizophrenic camera angles to the 2 mile hikes into a dead end. But thats in game play terms, the real inspiration was the plot line and subtext.
This ain't fact as there are so goddamn many ways to interpret Silent Hill. But originally, the plot line was based around the garden of eden tainted by man. Paradise turned to the depths of depravity and indescribable horror. Awaiting the second coming of Christ incarnate, ready to start the apocalypse, which Harry(aka. Rose)would see briefly due to what was essentially the labour pains of allysia(aka. the mother of God) It was beautiful, a Christian contradiction. Essentially the first good representation of God if ever had the pleasure to witness, and I'm a bloody atheist. So much for a 20 story Caucasian hippie in a robe. I cant begin to descibe it, it was heresy and divinity intertwined as one twisted and degenerated mass of flesh and metal.
Now see what gans decided to do was put a literal aspect on this replacing the infinite power of God(or Lucifer, depending on what ending ye got:P)with some lame ass pretence of individual power developed from intense emotion(aka. white light witchcraft bulls**t)So what ye end up with is some exhausted revenge story along with a fairly tame portrayal of unique horror presented in the original Silent Hill games.
Alone this film doesn't deserve a 1, if they named it the ring part 3 I would've given it a 6 at least. But I'm so sick of poncy ass directors turning something of such magnificence and inspiration, into a 4.99 bargain bucket disk at your local HMV. I can say without contradiction that Silent Hill easily could of sat with Aliens and Silence of the Lambs, instead, its doomed to be forgotten. And if you were part of the cult following before it became a movie, you'd know just how much of a tragedy that was.
P.S A horror movie with a happy ending ain't a horror movie