Review of Silent Hill (2006) by Jy S — 20 Oct 2012

My family and I all love horror movies, so when a movie comes out that looks terrifying we all try to go together. We saw most of the "Saw" movies in the theater together and I remember use going to see this and all of us being "meh, that wasn't that good".

I've never played the game, so I can only base my opinion on the movie. With all the previews for the second movie showing I figured this would be the perfect time to re-watch and see if it holds up at all.

The movie is about a girl, Sharon(Jodelle Ferland) who sleep walks and talks of this place called Silent Hill. Her mother Rose(Radha Mitchell) wants her to get better so she ignores her husband's pleas and takes Sharon to Silent Hill to try to figure out what is wrong and see if she can help her daughter get better.

Once there she realizes that is was a mistake coming and Silent Hill is basically Hell on Earth. The images in this movie are great and twisted, but they are all mostly CG which to me, look really fake and lose some of the "scare"factor.

The story is decent, but the effects just take me out of being scared or anything really. I also wish more was done with the main demon Pyramid Head(I guess that's his name). I liked the ending, but overall this just doesn't really stand up as a very good movie.

Will I see the 2nd movie? Sure, but it's because I'll watch just about anything. I'm surprised after 6 years they decided to do another movie. If done right, there is a really good horror movie to be made out of this material, just not out of this first movie.