Stunning Horror of Disturbingly Powerful Dimensions - A Great Film Indeed

Rating: 10/10 (18 May 2015)

Director Christophe Gans has produced a horror film of such imagination and overwhelmingly shocking imagery that it breaks new cinematic ground. With stylistic vision and nightmarish atmospherics, this is a chilling gaze across the desolate landscape of hell itself. It seems the gates of hell have indeed swung open and the damned have occupied this unholy town. The visuals are nothing less than breathtaking, unique in every possible way and beautifully realized technically. As previously noted, the creatures given life in this movie seem to have escaped from Hades and run rampant in this small forsaken town. Their movements are amazing and repellent concurrently, their tormented visages unlike anything ever before captured on film. A film of such innovative artistic choices is a welcome but disturbing cinematic accomplishment. There is no doubt that it will mark a turning point in horror cinema if for no other reason that the trend toward torture porn is defeated by such a motion picture. Without abundant gore or excessive violence, a terror filled mystery can unfold with incredibly frightening ways if imagination is invested in the project. No one who sees this film will ever forget the haunting imagery, dark landscape, and unrelenting horror that is Silent Hill.