Silent Hill (Full Screen) R

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Silent Hill (Full Screen)
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DVD Details

  • Rated: R
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 5 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: August 22, 2006
  • Originally Released: 2006
  • Label: Sony Pictures

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 367,019
Rating: B+ -- The story is complex and kind of hard to follow, but this didn't stop it from being enjoyable. Full Review
Film School Rejects
Apr 25, 2019
Rating: 0/4 -- A train wreck. And this one is so bad I couldn't wait to look away. Full Review
The Dispatch (Lexington, NC)
Jun 5, 2019
Rating: 1/5 -- Maybe it's the kudos acquired by screenwriter Roger Avary in his association with Quentin Tarantino that has allowed him to write this unbelievably boring horror-thriller. Full Review
Guardian
May 6, 2006
Rating: B -- Where this movie shines is in its disturbing imagery, its very creepy visuals, and the stunning production design. Full Review
ChrisStuckmann.com
Oct 24, 2019
French director Christophe Gans's adaptation of the Silent Hill computer game is visually inspired and thematically ambitious, yet ultimately uninvolving. Full Review
Time Out
May 6, 2006
With its obstacle-course narrative of abrupt ambushes and perversely hidden clues, and its vividly dimensional environments, SILENT HILL is a striking approximation of the gaming format.
Sight and Sound
Jul 1, 2006
3 stars out of 5 -- Director Gans presents a genuinely disturbing world of peeling paint, raining ash and grotesque blobs of flesh...
Ultimate DVD
Sep 1, 2006

Product Description:

It's always been said that a video game cannot be successfully adapted into a film. With SILENT HILL, director Christophe Gans (BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF) and screenwriter Roger Avary (KILLING ZOE) have the benefit of the atmospheric and often terrifying game series of the same name. With a budget reportedly in excess of $50 million, they wisely eschew dense plot in favor of a kaleidoscopic nightmare--culled from several volumes of the game series--designed to give horror fans what they crave. Radha Mitchell (PITCH BLACK) stars as Rose Da Silva, a young mother whose adopted daughter Sharon speaks of the eponymous West Virginia mining town as she sleepwalks. Rose decides to take Sharon there in an attempt to discover why it haunts her dreams--but Silent Hill has been a ghost town since a series of underground coal fires in 1974, and the residents who stayed behind are the stuff of nightmares.

SILENT HILL is notable for having a largely female cast (the male characters were reportedly added at the studio's behest), with Mitchell, Deborah Kara Unger, Alice Krige, and Laurie Holden in the principal roles. But the film's real star is production designer Carol Spier (known for her frequent work with David Cronenberg), whose work makes the deserted town into a true vision of hell. Utilizing an effective combination of CGI and latex makeup effects, several of the creatures on display may upset more sensitive viewers, as will some of the carnage, which is strong for an R rating. On the other hand, seasoned horror fans and gamers who have been waiting to see a joystick-free version of SILENT HILL are likely to come away feeling like they've just taken a nightmare vacation to the spookiest town in America.

Description by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:

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.

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  • UPC: 043396158641
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