Not Understanding = Sucking?

Rating: 10/10 (24 April 2006)

I have been a huge of fan the Silent Hill series since the first one came out. The only one I didn't truly love was #4, it wasn't the same game or "feeling" as the others. I still like it though. I went and saw this movie with fear and excitement. I didn't want this to be a "lets make some money from fans of the game". I saw it the second day it was out due to work schedules. The crowd was very well behaved through the entire movie, (which is normally one thing that ruins all movies for me.) I normally tend to not like most movies I go see...I guess I get my hopes up, or its because a lot of "great" movies are not at the theaters. The last serious horror film I saw that I enjoyed fully was the 80's remake of The Thing. I'm 21, and the first time I saw this was about 7 years ago. I'm a big fan of both of Rob Zombie's films as well, but those don't really fall into the horror genre for me. For horror, I have turned almost entirely to games. Silent Hill, Resident Evil, Fatal Frame, Doom, Alone in the Dark....these are games that have more time spent on the details of being creepy, dark, scary, and entertaining than most scary movies today. If there is not some massive amount of nudity, disgusting rape scene, 50 "boo" moments, or someone dieing every 10 minutes, then it "sucks" to the general public. Right when the movie ended, a lady behind me said "I don't get it". I turned around and said, "go play the games". She took this like I meant "the movie sucked compared to the games". I just looked at her blankly and said "I understood it just fine". This brings me to finally saying I thought this film captured the game in so many ways that it boggled my mind. At many times, I forgot many of the creatures were costumes and not CGI. The story made sense to me, maybe because I know the games front to back, or maybe because I can recognize that the movie Hostile is 75% lame porn, and 25% "we did this part to make the movie gross and creepy", and not a horror movie. I'm not a Genius (sarcasm) movie reviewer like Ebert, but I can tell you that out of the more than 25 reviews I have read for this movie.....all but 2 actually put any thought into what the movie was about and what the end meant. I fully enjoyed this movie, and recommend that anyone that wants to see a very beautifully disturbing film, please go see it. If you have trouble understanding it, then give it some credit and THINK about what it might mean, and not just say it "sucks" because you don't want to. thank you - Scott