wow, my faith in horrors is restored

Rating: 9/10 (25 April 2006)

Firstly I would like to start by saying I did play Silent Hill the computer game once but was too scared to go-on. Call me a wuss but it just seemed like it was meant to be a movie.
And thank-the-sweet-lord it is not even close to the crapness of other video-game/movie conversions : Tomb Raider and the dreaded Resident Evil to name but two.
This film is the first in an incredibly long time that literally had me griping my seat at the cinema and trying to control my racing heart.
It has everything, a great plot, its brilliantly directed and the screenplay is fantastic. It's so moody and eerie you can't escape the horror of the characters. Some scenes will make you shiver.
The cast are great too, adding to the emotional depth of the film. I have to say this film will sound like any other horror when you describe it to your mates as it is quite gory. But really it has so much more than gore, and the gore it uses is tasteful if that makes any sense! It goes with the atmosphere of the film.
All I can say is that if you have been put up by recent awful horror films such as Hostel, Silent Hill will give you hope that not only can horror films still be scary and gripping and exhilarating, but computer game adaptations CAN work!