Silent Hill (Widescreen Edition)
by Christophe Gans, Chris Sikorowski
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Actor: Laurie Holden, Radha Mitchell, Roger Avary, Sean Bean, Tanya AllenDirector: Chris Sikorowski, Christophe Gans
Brand: Sony
Writer: Roger Avary
Producer: Don Carmody
Producer: Chris Sikorowski
Producer: Akira Yamaoka
Producer: Andrew Mason
Producer: Deb LeFaive
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 125 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-08-22
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
DVD Reviews of Silent Hill (Widescreen Edition)
DVD Review: Underrated and frightening...
Summary: 5 Stars
An elaborate review is probably best for this film. But it is also an experience to behold. I will say the widescreen transfer is clean and sharp. If you are a fan of the game series or have an open mind then allow your senses to be assaulted. It is very well done and is abstract in every sense. One of the most original and frightening movies I have ever seen.DVD Review: Horrible Adaption
Summary: 2 Stars
This movie is only scary if you've seen it before knowing the game. Other than that, it's pure [...]. The BTS (behind the scene) is the writer, director and creator talking about how close they believed the movie is to the game. But if it was close at all they would take the time to make several movies to go along with the several games AND include all the monsters. There are about 4 monsters in the movie that are from the game. There was actually one that i believe wasn't in any of the games. To trick you out of thinking that they're lazy, they made up names instead of just doing what i said before: MAKING MULTIPLE MOVIES WITH DIFFERENT PEOPLE IN EACH INSTEAD OF SCREWING STUFF UP IN ONE MOVIE.
Some parts of the movie bored the hell outta me. I had to skip the part with the husband because it was absolutely boring to see him just walk around looking for a way to get to silent hill. If he had gotten to Silent Hill at a good time we might have something exciting going on but of course he doesn't live up to that.
But the movie is not a total loss. Despite being ONE mess of a movie time was actually *somewhat* put into it. Most movie monsters aren't real things; people just pretend that monsters are there and scream over nothing. But in the movie, all the monsters are ACTUAL people in costumes (discluding some of the hanging figures) That makes it much more believable and easier to act with instead of acting with something that is not even there.
Speaking of acting, it was better than in the game. The characters aren't clueless against some things (I.e in the first game, somebody goes into an elementary school, finds a wheelchair and goes "A wheel chair? in an elementary school?") and actually make it more believable because they act how anybody would act if they were in a hellbound place (they scream, are scared, etc.) but in the game they just keep being bewildred but not quite scared.
DVD Review: The best videogame to film adaptation ever.
Summary: 4 Stars
I'm a fairly big fan of the Silent Hill videogame series so needless to say when I heard about this movie I was both excited and worried. I have to say I was more than pleasantly surprised. Not only was the director actually competent for once and not a complete hack *cough*Uwe Bole*cough* but he genuinely cares about the series. As a result we get a relatively faithful adaptation of the videogame series. It didn't really scare me, but I consider myself hard to scare. It did however, scare the crap out of my sister and her friends. A lot of people I've talked with about the movie say it scared them at certain points. The special effects are surprisingly excellent for what I assume was a relatively low-budget movie and there's plenty of gore here for you gore-freaks.. The special features are actually very interesting to watch, this coming from someone who normally doesn't care about special features at all. My only complaints are that I think the director tried to fit too much into the movie and some of the acting is kind of lousy. I definitely recommend this for fans of the series and horror buffs as well.DVD Review: Must see movie if you love the original game.
Summary: 5 Stars
Way better than Resident Evils' failed attempts when transferring a video game title to the holly wood screen.DVD Review: Finally!
Summary: 5 Stars
Finally! A really good and really origional movie! This is one of the only horror movies to be released in the last couple of years that has not been a remake or a sequel - and it is very good!
A woman named Rose's daughter has nightmares in which she sleepwalks and shouts of a place named Silent Hill. Concerned about her daughter, the two of them make a trip to Silent Hill to find out the source of the sleepwalking. However, in a car accident shortly after having arrived on the outskirts of Silent Hill Roses' daughter, Sharon, disapppears and so Rose embarks, alone, upon her journey through the nightmareish hell that is Silent Hill...
This movie is suspencefull, frightening and origional and I would reccomend it to all fans of the genre.
Description of Silent Hill (Widescreen Edition)
Based on the best-selling horror action game Silent Hill stars Radha Mitchell (Man on Fire) as Rose a desperate mother who takes her adopted daughter Sharon to the town of Silent Hill in an attempt to cure her of her ailment. After a violent car crash Sharon disappears and Rose begins her desperate search to get her back. She descends into a fog of smoldering ash and into the center of the twisted reality of a town's terrible secret. Pursued by grotesquely deformed creatures and a townspeople stuck in permanent purgatory Rose begins to uncover the truth behind the apocalyptic disaster that burned the town 30 years back. Dare to step inside the horrific town of Silent Hill where darkness preys on every soul and Hell's creations await around every corner. But know that once you enter...there is no turning back.System Requirements:Running Time: 125 MinutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre:?HORROR Rating:?R UPC:?043396138841 Manufacturer No:?13884A lot of movies can be described as "dripping with atmosphere," but in the case of Silent Hill it's literally true. Faithfully adapted from the Konami video games by French director Christophe Gans and Pulp Fiction cowriter Roger Avary (both self-confessed video game addicts), this dark and grisly horror-fest is nothing if not a triumph of cinematography and production design, consisting of a minimal and mostly incoherent plot propped up by a mysterious maze of sets that literally seep, drip, and ooze with the atmospheric evil of past misdeeds. Welcome to the abandoned and perpetually foggy ghost town of Silent Hill, where grey ash falls like snow, a devastating coal-mine fire still burns in a hellish underground, and demons of various shapes and sizes make your worst nightmares seem like a walk in the park. It's here that distressed mother Rose (played by Pitch Black heroine Radha Mitchell) has taken her daughter Sharon (Jodelle Ferland) in hopes of discovering the source of Sharon's sleepwalking nightmares. What they find instead is a burned-out legacy of unspeakable evil, as Silent Hill's dark secrets are revealed. As opposing denizens of Silent Hill's meta-morphing underworld, Canadian actresses Alice Krige and Deborah Kara Unger seem to be the only ones who recognize this morbid mess as campy comedy; Gans (who established his visual flair with The Brotherhood of the Wolf) and Avary take it far too seriously, and the entire movie is utterly devoid of any emotional hooks or plot logic that would make us care about anything that happens. In crafting a loyal big-screen rendition of Silent Hill and its Playstation sequels, they've forgotten that movies play by a different and more demanding set of rules. As a result, they've made an impressive-looking but ultimately hollow horror film that only Silent Hill game-players can truly appreciate. --Jeff Shannon
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