Silent Hill

I watched Silent Hill the other day and found the film and I loved it. Although it I still struggle to this day to figure out the true plot. Directed by Christophe Gans the film was based on the Silent Hill game from Konami. A worried mother, Rose takes her daughter, Sharon to Silent Hill which is the name of the town that she keeps speaking of while sleep walking. After crashing her car outside of the town Rose awakens to find her daughter missing from the passenger seat and emersed in an alternate reality. With the help of a cop named Cybil she sets about finding her daughter and encounters scary looking creatures and constant shifts in reality. Rose faces a cult who a hiding out in the church of Silent Hill and slowly begins to uncover the truth about a young girl, Alessa who was burned by the cult but managed to survive after the hot coal is knocked away by the cage she is suspended in. Rose slowly uncovers how her daughter is connected to Alessa by being the remains of her goodness.

The whole film is a stunning example of the use of CGI and some of the images portrayed can be disturbing and the plot is also quite disturbing but it is visually impressive. The suspense and mystery created in the film is really effective especially with the use of the air-raid siren. Whenever the audience hears it in the distance we know that something dangerous is coming yet because of the time it takes for the air-raid siren to finish sounding off it builds up suspense and the sense of panic that the characters are probably feeling as well as they know they must quickly escape.

Overall it is no doubt visually impressive and lovers of the Silent Hill game series will enjoy this in depth film. However it is not for the faint-hearted.