The Good's and Bad's of Silent Hill.

Rating: 6/10 (30 October 2015)

The Silent Hill Movie isn't exactly a good piece of media (In a movie sense), although it was a decent attempt at a Video Game Move. The original Silent Hill Game (PS1) was an amazingly successful game which focused on a more psychosocial approach, rather than a straight out violent approach which games like Resident Evil were doing at the time. This was a risky move as the developers didn't think general audiences would appreciate the settings which the game was trying to envelop. The thing that made the Silent Hill Game rememberable and revolutionary for Horror was that it was more of a feeling, an emotional state. It provided players with something different & unique. It Showed things, rather than explained things (This is one thing the movie does wrong).
First of all, the setting and the general location of 'Silent Hill' is spot on. It resembles the Video Game incredibly well. The music is also commendably. It uses some of the music from the remarkable soundtrack which made the game even more amazing. All the music suits every location, action, etc that is taking place. The characters are decent, they don't really resemble the characters from the game, but are crafted in such a way that makes you actually occasionally care and fear for them. The script is sometimes laughably bad, it just feels rushed together. The 'Monsters' truly mirror the actual monsters from the Game. Most of the time they look scary, and they actually feel like they belong where they are. They don't feel like they're randomly placed there. They look and feel like they have evolved through out time with Silent Hill (The Location) its self. The Plot/Story is where this movie goes wrong... One of the whole reasons the game was so successful was because it didn't explain much, it just did it. So the movie try's to explain everything. We never needed to know the back story, it was incredible enough. Like I said it wasn't good in the sense of a movie. The only reason I rate it a '6' is because throughout it stays true the the actual setting (Including monsters, music, etc) of the game. It just try's too hard to explain it. The story explanation was unnecessary, it doesn't feel like the true Silent Hill.