Painfully slow feminist revenge fantasy on catholic housing pedophiles

Rating: 3/10 (9 April 2007)

I've never heard of the games but I just saw the movie...and it was pathetic It starts off with an interesting enough premise: a young girl has recurring nightmares about a place called Silent Hill but also sleepwalks so her parents are understandably distressed. (Adopted) Dad wants to keep taking her to the professionals even though the "medication doesn't work" while (adopted) Mom decides the best idea is to take her on a road trip to Silent Hill - a recently deserted ghost town.
The locals of the neighboring town deny the existence of Silent Hill, as per usual of hillbillies in a horror movie. Meanwhile Dad checks out the place on the net and goes to rather extreme measures to stop his family going i.e. canceling their credit cards, and its here the story stops being a story.
After an hour of a woman running around shouting "Sharon", some weird cgi, a cop running around shouting "Rose", and her husband running around shouting "Rose" we learn the cgi comes in waves and there's only one place that is safe from it.
The only storyline is a five minute speech by a ten year old girl saying she was raped and shunned by religion, then the scarred remains of her kills everything.
It seems you could only enjoy this movie if you're a fan of the game or easily spooked by creepy confusion.