Woman loses her daughter and literally goes through hell trying to get her back

Rating: 4/10 (22 April 2006)

This movie begins very well, with the mother taking her daughter on a trip to visit a place called Silent Hill, which the daughter talks about while she sleep walks, in hopes of figuring out why she speaks of it and helping her to overcome her problems. On the way, she is stopped by a cop, and runs, knowing that the officer won't allow her to go to the city. In her attempt to flee, she swerves to miss hitting a child in the road and crashes, causing her to blackout. She awakes to find her daughter missing and when she travels into the abandoned town to find her, is puzzled by a sudden blackout and is attacked by disfigured children. She returns to her car and is joined by the cop, who at first seems like she won't be swayed, but when they are trapped in the city together, the join to try and solve the mystery of the city. The eventually stumble upon the remaining people of the city, who take refuge in a church, and learn that the demon that is causing the trouble hides itself in a hospital. When taken to the hospital, the citizens accuse them of being witches, and the cop begins fighting them, allowing the mother to escape into the elevator and travel down into the bowels of the hospital to find the demon. She eventually finds it, and it goes on to explain how the ruin of the town was brought upon the people by the people, through their burning of an innocent girl as a witch, just because she didn't have a legitimate father. Her rage caused the curse, along with a pact with the demon (Satan, even though he isn't referred to as such), which takes the form of an innocent (a child). The demon possesses the mother in order to enter the church, where she unleashes the demon, and it uses its hellacious barbed-wire to rip all of the people apart. At this point the movie becomes pure gore and all scare factor is lost. I'm a bit confused about the ending, as the reunited mother and daughter drive home, and everything seems OK, but is still foggy as it was in the city, and they are in the house with her husband, who periodically throughout the whole movie is shown trying to track them down and solve the mystery himself, but he knows nothing of the evil in the town, but he can't see them in the house, and vice versa.