A Great Video Game To Movie Conversion "Roll on SH2"

Rating: 9/10 (22 April 2006)

This movie I've been looking forward to since i saw it advertised on a Silent Hill forum in the making, So yes i am a huge huge huge fan!
The movie to game ratio is about 75% the characters have been slightly change monsters are great if some are ripped from other Silent Hill games. The biggest thing the creators had to get over to everyone was the ATMOSPHERE!! silent Hill is a game that makes you get very involved wandering the isolated streets etc.. This i have to agree was a shame that as "Vandwedge" said was not accomplished going from Evil SH to a relaxing calm view of the "real world" but the locations were spot on School, Hotel its a pity the hospital element wasn't explored more as fans will tell you the hospital plays a major part in the stories. The other element missing is the idea of having a small weapon array in the movie rose picks up a knife but alas does not run any monsters through or slice a single creature with the blade, It would have been nice to see the barbed wire wood or pole removed from a wall to eliminate the odd enemy.. The gore factor in silent hill is almost as important as the atmosphere hanging bodies mangled foes etc the movie does handle this quite well with scenes to rival event horizon on crazy deaths.
I saw this movie from a fan point of view BUT i went to the cinema with some silent hill virgins who have never laid eyes on this great game series they all came out saying it was brilliant BUT who the? how the? and that was oh i get it. I found myself explaining things on the way home filling in the bits to make sense this does however differ from the game story so no Samael etc from the game more about the brief reason as to why things are happening. For the popcorn people this is a very hard story to follow, twisting and confusing the hell out of people more so than a regular horror movie. They all said they really enjoyed it even my g/f did and she is not the greatest horror fan so if i was reviewing this from a non silent hill person maybe it should be an 8 as the movie was still a great collection the horror and thriller market but didn't explain everything in depth to help people through the confusing times.
Overall this movie is a great success on the game to film ratio from other appalling conversions Mario Bros right up to Tombraider which again could have been amazing. This hopefully is going to setup the next story in the silent hill line up a personal favourite of mine silent hill 2 if this happens then this should be great but i guess we will have to keep our eyes open and see if this happens..
Sient Hill is dark, evil, and an atmospheric movie go see this mysterious tale for yourself. If you can pick up a copy of the game to understand things better do so and play a great horror series in the process.
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