S10 Reviews: Silent Hill (2006)

Rating: 8/10 (30 April 2006)

Rose is worried about the strange behavior that her adopted daughter has. Strange drawings and waking nightmares are clues to the girl history and a strange little West Virginia ghost town. The town of Silent Hill may hold the answers but they won't come easy because the abandoned town of Silent Hill still has inhabitants lurking in the darkness and it all makes the Twilight Zone seem like a pleasant dream.
Director Gans (Brotherhood of the Wolf) brings the Konami video game series to the silver screen with much success. Wonderfully atmospheric, the gorgeously photographed film is a lot of twisted fun. An unusually decent group of actor's (Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean, Kim Coates and Alice Krige) for a film like this add dramatic punch to the extremely bizarre monster design. The overall look and design is absolutely nightmarishly brilliant. It unwinds at it's own pace and captures the feel and many aspects of the story from the game well. I did wish there were more scares because I thought the original game was of the best scary games ever but it's a minor quibble at best. Some reviewers have found the film to be perplexing but I didn't have that problem. That might be due to me having played the games though.