Silent Hill [Blu-ray]

I first saw Silent Hill before I played a Silent Hill game. Years ago, I had heard that the movie was not particularly liked although it did OK at the box office. Critcis left less than enthusiatic reviews. I was reading today on Wikipedia the recption to this movie and it was was not great. .... Comments like meandering plot, overlong, and vague. Anyway,. I had always liked this movie and watched it when it was on TV, at least twice. More recently, a few times I looked to buying it on blu-ray. However it was always expensive, so gave it a miss. .... At the price of £22 now it is overpriced, but it's quite rare to buy, so I decided eventually, to buy it. Loved every minute of it. 1. Critics saying it was meandering are just plain wrong. If you watch putting subtitles on and off, if you can't figure some dialogue it's a crystal clear plot. .... Let's face it, we all wish movies directed for clearer dialogue. Is there even a movie made since 1990 that every word is audible in it. When watching movies, it's often like, 'I didn't quite hear that, but I get the general idea'. 2. Secondly, in blu-ray everything is much clearer to see, and it enhances the picture a lot over TV standard definition. Silent Hill is a strong freaky movie. ...... Also since seeing Silent Hill on TV years ago, I played the Silent Hill: Homecoming video game in 2015. I see now why the set of the movie is exactly how it is. .... In that respect the movie is faithfull to the game series. Although I do not know if the movie was based on a particular game from the series. ... Yes I know Homecoming was not seen as the best game. I liked it first time I played it, but was infuriated with the controls. Second time I played I loved it; blown away. I think simply because I came to it knowing what to expect with the controls on PC gaming. There's probably not much I can add to anything that other reviewers have said, in terms of what you see. The enemies are excellent, and always felt that was a strong point of the movie. The feeling is disorientation and way out, and the lives of the characters being changed forever. Is it worth £22? .... Well, that's a personal choice. .... I say if you liked what you saw on TV, then you will like it more on blu-ray, garaunteed. ... I balked at the price, but I genuinely loved watching it in blu-ray.

As a fan of the game I really appreciated the way they kept that true spirit to the game, which is creepy to say the least. the music was strongly linked too, which was a character in itself. It is not as scary as the games (scary as hell) but I really enjoyed the visuals and the soundtrack is superb. The gender change was clever I thought. Its not the dad running around looking for his daughter, they switched parents, so the mother is on her own trying to figure out everything while trying to avoid being taken out by nasty twisted creatures. Radha is just so bad ass in this. I have always loved her but she really works it in this. What I am most happy with is that they put in the alley way scene at the start of the movie and actually did an ok job of it. In the game it is a gazillion times scarier but it brought back some good memories. Anyone who has played the first game will always mention that fist part when you hear the sirens go off. every hair stands up and then they just slam you will the worlds scariest soundtrack. Pure genius. Even the camera angles and directions are the same, it actually lifts up over her as she runs past and goes back down from behind her. I loved that. Speaking of the soundtrack, the tracks include songs from games 1-3 and they are all amazing. you can buy them for all games and bring you deeper into the world. the one thing about the games is the amount of emotion involved. All three games (in particular the 2nd one)has very sad and tragic stories. I am very happy they gave Lisa some screen time because her case actually made me very sad along with many gamers out there. That's how much you care about the characters. This movie is a fun ride, depending on what you call entertainment. It is a bit twisted and some parts are quite extreme but so is the game so if you don't mind images like nurses with no faces, children with twisted heads and screaming.....you know things like that, then there shouldn't be a problem. Ooh and the barbed wire part...holy moly that had me crossing my legs. This is still one of my favourite movies.....just for that one quotes... "To rid the world of this demon - WE MUST BURN THIS CHILD!" - "look at me....im burning" The extras are quite good, there is a long "making of" feature that shows you all the people that are in the costumes YES THEY ARE ALL ACTED OUT. It is amazing to think that each creature had its own "driver" and actor. I would absolutely recommend buying the dvd to see how this movie was made, especially the part with the nurses. Omg wow so cool. Pyramid head is in here and the "lying creatures" or armless man. SO SO CREEPY! The entire cast is amazing in this, every single one whether good or bad, they all just added to the whole movie. This movie has a very strong female leading cast. they are a bunch of power houses, every single one. Poor Chris did what he could haha. Absolutely fantastic movie.

For this adoption of a computer game made into a film by the director Christopher Gans who again turned to the writer Rodger Avery who he previously worked with him on his 1995 "Crying Freeman" film, that film was from a manga magazine but this time instead of being a unaccredited writer for that film he wrote the screenplay for Silent Hill. Instead of changing the story from the game the action and gory scenes are played almost exactly as it does in the video game making the whole movie experience quite strange and surreal for anyone who hadn't played the game and scary for a whole load of other reasons, I found the film a little slow at the beginning but once the town of Silent Hill is found the pace picks up. The story is where a Mother searches for her lost child in the town of Silent Hill, this role is played by Radha Mitchell the town appears to be built on a permanently smouldering coal seam. The monsters that feature have been directly lifted from the game along with the backgrounds which gives the film another world atmosphere that is both dark and disturbing in equal measure, this is better than your average game to film adoption and has some genuine moments that make the viewer jump. This DVD is presented in 2:35.1 aspect and has a really well mixed 5.1 surround sound track, and has some interesting special features including a Making of documentary, the original trailer, photo gallery and U.K. T.V. spots.

Aww Prynhawn da folks, I bought this Silent Hill dvd last week, it arrived in good time & in a clean, like new condition. The Silent Hill film itself is very good but fairly scary, just like the game. The dvd I received was a German copy, but you can play it in English, if you tweak the settings right. Cheers to the seller, for sending me this Silent Hill dvd. Kind regards from HM. ;-)

This is quite an old horror film but still has the creep factor for me. I haven't seen it for ages and it is still scary even with the siren going off warning young mother Rose that the horrors of silent hill are coming to life. Rose takes her daughter to Silent Hill one of America's fictional ghost towns to help her recover while the husband (played by Sean Bean) tried to track her down. There are some interesting characters and the actual setting of the town Silent Hill is enough to creep most of us. Some people might know it is an actual computer game which I did not know at the time I first watched this. Rhada Mitchell is convincing as the mother and some of the other characters are good. It has a strange ending which I wasn't what to make of at first but it's still a good horror.

My Daughter saved up for this film and two manga books, and urged me to send for them, from Amazon. I then was confronted by pleading of 'please watch it with me?' So, I thought, - give it a go as I enjoyed the last film I bought for myself which was Shutter (american version) and enjoyed this. Silent Hill, is an acquired taste film, but on the whole it was enjoyable, strong female presence in the entirety of the film. It was a revenge film of sorts and reminded me a bit of a dark version of witch hunting. Strange ending, but would watch it again.

This is a tricky one...Fans of the game are going to be divided over the slight liberties taken with the plot, but more than likely they should be extremely pleased to see that Silent Hill the movie is the most faithful game-to-film adaptation ever seen up to now. Whole passages of action and imagery and sometimes even camera angles have been faithfully reproduced on screen, so the atmosphere of the original game has been in part quite successfully recreated. More difficult though, is assessing the movie's success as a stand-alone product and not just a fan's wet dream of seeing Playstation graphics come to life. The biggest hurdle to overcome was actually decyphering the original confusing plot and turning it into a coherent screenplay. Well, just understanding the plot is hard enough, and as someone who has played the game and read up on a few plot explanations myself, I still can't relate a clear version of it to anyone else. But let's start with the basics. A couple find that their young daughter is beset by nightmares and sleepwalking, and she's constantly crying out the name "Silent Hill" during the more upsetting night-time episodes. So the mother, Rose, decides to cart the girl off to the town of Silent Hill in an attempt to and trace the root cause behind it all. Now, there's a rather unnecessary sub-plot introduced here in which Rose's husband disagrees with her decision and then tries to follow her, which actually does the film a dis-service. Because, as we follow Rose's trip into a nightmare and fall under the spell of the subsequent horrific imagery, the film constantly snaps us out of it every 20 minutes or so to show us Sean Bean (the husband) trawling the internet from his comfortable living room, or driving around in his car or getting mixed up with less than helpful officers of the law. This really hurts the flow of the the film, although it may have been against the original plan as I have read that the whole husband idea was a late addition to the film after initial feedback pointed out there were no male characters in the film! They could have got round that one by keeping the main character as Harry Mason, rather than changing it from father to mother and thus creating the character of Rose. That's not to say I don't like Rose, and when the film is concentrating on her Silent Hill nightmare, its capable of being quite a dazzling horror film. Rose stumbles across many ghastly sights and locations, and is chased and attacked by twisted monsters such as the "body-bag" monsters and faceless nurses from Silent Hill 2, and the cockroaches and babies from Silent Hill 1. The locations are also brilliantly recreated, including the school and hospital, plus the industrial, metal clad "otherworld" version of the town that keeps popping up. I really wanted to see the amusement park too, but sadly this has been omitted. Anyway, if you concentrate hard enough you should just about be able to work out the film's explanation for the whole grisly nightmare, but be warned that they don't make it easy for you. How many versions of Alessa / Sharon are there supposed to be? What exactly happened in that terrific-looking but garbled flashback? As one who played the game, I thought I would be able to fill in any blanks myself, but I was dismayed to discover that the film script actually changed one of the core elements of the denoument...which was: But the sad truth is that this is a bewildering experience for gamers and un-prepared cinemagoers alike. There's some powerful imagery here, like Alessa rising up out of the ground in her hospital bed and unleashing barbed wire on the terrified onlookers, but it would have helped the film if much more of it could be understood. Some of the shock sights like the disfigured nurse (Lisa Garland, it is assumed) and Pyramid Head (yay!!) are thrown in with very little explanation, which just jars the viewer still further. I had a lot of high hopes for this movie, and it came pretty close to satisfying them on some occasions - I was squirming in my seat with delight when I heard original music from the games playing up there on the screen. But it failed to fill me with the same horror that I experienced when playing the game, and I think it will also fail to manage it with new-comers to the story, which is a shame becasue there's a disturbing and unique tale in there somewhere. Maybe it was just too hard to crystallize into a motion picture. But they sure tried, and for that I am impressed.

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