Silent Hill (2006)

Name: Silent Hill
Director: Christophe Gans
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Released: 2006
Duration: 125 min
Rating: 87

"We've been expecting you."

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👍 87%Google users liked it archived

Critics Score

🎬 32% (RT: 33%, MC: 31)

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Director

Christophe Gans

Runtime

2h 5m

Country

Canada, France, Japan

Language

English

TMDB Rating

6.6/10 (4,772 votes)

Rotten Tomatoes

33%

Metacritic

Cast

Radha Mitchell as Rose Da Silva

Sean Bean as Christopher Da Silva

Jodelle Ferland as Sharon / Alessa

Laurie Holden as Cybil Bennett

Deborah Kara Unger as Dahlia Gillespie

Kim Coates as Officer Thomas Gucci

Tanya Allen as Anna

Alice Krige as Christabella

Yes. 87% of real audiences liked it based on 4,772 votes. Critics scored it lower at 32%, but audiences disagreed.

Overview

Rose, a desperate mother, 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 embarks on a horrific journey to get her back and begins to uncover the truth behind the apocalyptic disaster that burned the town 30 years earlier. Wikipedia ↗

Fun Facts

During the filming of Silent Hill, Radha Mitchell improvised one of the most famous lines in the movie.
Eagle-eyed viewers have noticed a hidden easter egg referencing Christophe Gans's previous film in the background of the opening scene.
Christophe Gans originally wanted a completely different ending for the film, but test audiences preferred the one we see today.

Audience Consensus

Silent Hill is a 2006 French-Canadian horror film directed by Christophe Gans, based on the Konami video game series. Radha Mitchell stars as Rose Da Silva, a mother who takes her adopted daughter Sharon, played by Jodelle Ferland, to the abandoned town of Silent Hill, West Virginia to uncover the source of the girl's night terrors about the place. When Rose crashes her car near the town, she awakens in a fog-shrouded, ash-covered Silent Hill — a nightmarish realm that periodically shifts into a rusted, blood-soaked alternate dimension populated by grotesque, tortured creatures.

Christophe Gans faithfully recreated the games' distinctive atmosphere of perpetual fog, industrial decay, and body horror, creating one of the most visually faithful video game adaptations ever produced. The creature designs, including the iconic Pyramid Head and the nurses with faceless, twitching bodies, were realized through a combination of practical effects and CGI. Silent Hill earned $100 million worldwide on a $50 million budget.

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