By far the best video game movie adaptation I've ever seen.

Rating: 10/10 (21 April 2006)

Silent Hill is a deep and gruesome portrait of motherhood, religion, and revenge. It would be hard to believe that it is a video game movie adaptation if you had not played the game. Indeed, everything, the music, the camera angles, and the extremely disturbing images and demons could have been (and in many cases, actually were) taken straight from the Silent Hill game series.
Silent Hill is not a movie for the faint of heart and may be hard to follow at times if you don't know anything about the games or the story. Playing the games is certainly not required to enjoy the movie, but first timers and people looking for a simple slasher movie may feel left unfulfilled. And, just like the games, it may take multiple viewings to see and understand everything there is to behold.
Overall, the storyline is a little complicated (although nothing compared to something like A Tale of Two Sisters) and a tiny bit unclear at times, leaving some things open to interpretation. The last half-hour of the movie also holds some of the most disturbing and gory images on film. But the acting is solid on all parts, the story, if grasped, is engrossing, the pace is perfect, and the visuals are the best around.
I view Silent Hill as one of the best psychological/terror movies in existence, if not one of best ever made. I would recommend it to horror, psychological thriller, or Silent Hill game fans everywhere.