An entertaining and suspenseful dark ride into the lungs of Hell

Rating: 7/10 (18 June 2013)

Based on a video game with the same title this movie is a good and suspenseful horror flick. The plot, which clearly follows the video game's story, is well built and leads you to a dark and atmospheric setting, the little village of SILENT HILL
From the beginning it has mystery, suspense and a Gothic dark atmosphere that combined create an enjoyable ghost story. Following the game's premise the movie dwells into two parallel realities, the dark sub world that haunts Silent Hill, where the main character ROSE (played by Radha Mitchell) has fallen, and the "real world" from where CHRISTOPHER DA SILVA (Da Silva is a Portuguese surname by the way – played by Sean Bean), ROSE's husband, never came out In fact by plot's developments we see they are not in the same dimension
The CGI are good but we can notice the clear inspiration in the game's computer graphics. A good example is the little creepy monsters of the dark world that appear along the movie; they are absolutely inspired the video game! The special effects are nice though
The other issue that is brought by this movie and which is the most important one (on a social perspective) is the religious fanaticism. The entire plot ends being around this topic and I might say I did like its final disclosure (and its message)
All in all I did appreciate SILENT HILL, it's not a movie to take too seriously (it's a video game adaptation!), but if we think about it just as an entertaining and suspenseful dark ride into the lungs of Hell, I guess we have a nice horror flick here!