Scarier Than "Resident Evil"

Rating: 5/10 (25 April 2006)

I thought the two "Resident Evil" movies were awful, but "Silent Hill" is a bit better. It has excellent special effects and some truly brutal and gory scenes. If you were unable to play the video game on which the movie was based, watching the movie allows you to see the whole thing from beginning to end without even using a controller! I live near Hamilton, Ontario, and the Grand Hotel exterior is actually a historic building called Lister Block that's sadly fallen into disrepair and is now one of our town eyesores...so it may have to be torn down. I also noticed the city of Brantford in the movie, because one scene was filmed in the building next to the offices of "The Brantford Expositor" newspaper.
All I can say is that Hamilton and Brantford look like friendlier places to live than Silent Hill!