don't confuse the game with the movie

Rating: 2/10 (29 April 2006)

i played silent hill when it came out in 1999; it was and still is one of the scariest games i've ever played. it inspired true horror in players. the movie however, while faithfully recreating the set and scenery of the town of silent hill very well, forgot that it was suppose to be a movie and just seemed to be comprised of scenes from the game series. There is a very loose plot, one dimensional characters, horrible dialog, and the movie's logic goes nowhere. The scenes in the movie that are supposed to be frightening, meaningful, or tragic, instead invokes only apathy from the viewers as the characters don't ever develop as people we can understand or care about. I'm writing this review for the people that have not seen the movie or want to see it, but haven't played the game. to those people, save your money and spend it on the game instead. The game is great, the movie is not.