Based on a real coal fire in PA, USA.

Rating: Null/10 (22 June 2010)

One of the things I found good about this film was the opening sequence where a woman driving with a daughter is approached by a female motorcycle cop and queried about if the girl with her is really a daughter. I think that the director caught an element of paranoia that does seem to exist at some levels in terms of how some Police view ordinary citizens. In the film, a dimensional rift opens up, so the cop following the woman and daughter, and the woman and daughter, are all shunted off into another version of Earth, causing the causality chain to be broken, changing what would happen next, since the motorcycle cop was following the woman driving with a daughter, with a view to "throwing a spanner into the works of a crime in progress", when there was no crime in progress. The film asks the question, how far is too far?...where local law enforcement is concerned, among other things. I think it is an abysmal thing to do to another human being. I think similar things might also occur in the world pertaining to single parent families, consisting of a father and a son, or a mother and a daughter. If the son or daughter are teens, that could be really, really, ugly. Not only would someone in law enforcement be accusing an older person of being a paedophile, they would be accusing them of being a gay paedophile,and intern they would also be labelling a younger person "gay and into older people of the same sex". The invention of the atomic bomb has nothing on what that could do. Personally, I think the female motorcycle cop in Silent Hill crossed the line, and for her dumbness she ended up being a human torch, later on in the film. Lots of thrills and chills and a good ending that I will not give away. Maybe a bit graphic here and there. More than anything, I think the film portrays how our "good society" is sometimes like being trapped on The Bounty, with Captain Bligh spouting venal clap trap and calling it brainy.