Silent Hill

April 2006

(106)

Synopsis

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. © 2006 Silent Hill DCP Inc. and Davis Films Production S.A.S. All Rights Reserved.

Reviews

4.5

106 total

5 75

4 17

3 10

2 1

1 3

Nigel Floyd

French director Christophe Gans's adaptation of the Silent Hill computer game is visually inspired and thematically ambitious, yet ultimately uninvolving.

Bill Gallo

Stuffed with cheap effects and devoid of tension, this French-Japanese-U.S. co-production contributes exactly zilch to the rich film history of those three nations.

Scott Tobias

The film's peculiar rhythms%u2014action, exposition, action, exposition%u2014betray its video-game roots, but audiences unfamiliar with the Silent Hill series can be forgiven for thinking that the game asks players to run from place to place, shouting a l

Owen Gleiberman

Silent Hill is mostly paralyzing in its vagueness.

Nathan Lee

Structured around a series of blackouts and gross-outs, Silent Hill is one long free fall through icky surrealism and underlighted nightmares.

Lou Lumenick

A great-looking but stupefyingly incoherent supernatural thriller,

Critic reviews

Nigel Floyd

French director Christophe Gans's adaptation of the Silent Hill computer game is visually inspired and thematically ambitious, yet ultimately uninvolving.

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Bill Gallo

Stuffed with cheap effects and devoid of tension, this French-Japanese-U.S. co-production contributes exactly zilch to the rich film history of those three nations.

Full Review

Scott Tobias

Full Review

Owen Gleiberman

Silent Hill is mostly paralyzing in its vagueness.

Full Review

Nathan Lee

Structured around a series of blackouts and gross-outs, Silent Hill is one long free fall through icky surrealism and underlighted nightmares.

Full Review

Lou Lumenick

A great-looking but stupefyingly incoherent supernatural thriller,

Full Review

Jason Anderson

Though Silent Hill's shoddy dialogue and incoherent story constantly irritate, several sights and scenes possess a certain surreal grandeur.

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User reviews

Isaiah Vargas August 11, 2014

Awesome Not a very scary movie, but man, the monsters are freaking awesome,very good movie.

Kevin Aguilar September 17, 2014

I loved it This is one of my favorite horror movies I am also a big fan of the video games for silent hill

Stephen Rabar August 20, 2014

Horror at its finest The games were scary! And the movies were scarier!

Emmy Okwu September 7, 2014

Best I luv horror its my life this is one of my faves I just need to see the 2nd one

Sharon Mercier August 2, 2014

Really good. Didnt get the idea of it the first time i watched it. Now i do. Great movie.

Nenoboy Yyy August 12, 2014

Awesome movie I luv it... Part2. Also.

Ryoko De Carlo July 30, 2014

Silent hill is my favorite Silent hill is the best!!!! Boo-yah!

Monica Holmes September 11, 2014

Great Awseome

GR1M woods September 7, 2014

Bad acting There were so many terrible parts,so many unesecary parts and parts where all,im thinking is "wtf,why,just why?" Most of the parts in the movie are jotmeven in the game

Gabriel Arteaga August 24, 2014

Silent hill Good

Ching Liang September 1, 2014

Good movie.

shamika janbazian September 19, 2014

Loved it Loved it

Brad Lehman September 27, 2014

Silent Hill Awesome...

NICK KHAN September 6, 2014

Thumbs up!! Good Movie. Money well spent

Sin Mantz October 4, 2014

I woved it Best, but that big guy riped that girls clothes off!

Amanda Martinez August 16, 2014

Is scary I love it when

Taichi Kuan July 25, 2014

Favorite This is the best movie I've seen made from a game other than resident evil

Coco Ojeda September 30, 2014

Scarry I loved it!

Fam Pedersen July 31, 2014

Sykt gøy Og veldig skummelt

Darrien Dotson September 1, 2014

The best movie ever

Cast and credits

Actors	Tanya Allen, Laurie Holden, Alice Krige, Kim Coates, Jodelle Ferland, Deborah Kara Unger, Sean Bean, Radha Mitchell
Producers	Samuel Hadida
Director	Christophe Gans
Writers	Roger Avary

Additional information

Rotten tomatoes® score

29%

Audio language

English (Stereo)

Subtitles

English

Info cards

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Run time

125 minutes

Rating

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