Silent Hill the Movie
Posted by Lauren | Under Reviews with 294 views Wednesday Apr 26, 2006
After a week of being fed false information that Silent Hill would be showing tomorow, it finally hit Philippine theaters today. I was willing to splurge and watch the movie at the more expensive Greenbelt 3 cinemas - the Silent Hill series is one of my favorites and the trailers looked very promising. Unfortunately, the cretins seemed to think Silent Hill unfit for Greenbelt 3. Pat and I had to settle for the more plebian Glorietta 4 theaters.
If the Silent Hill game frightened me so much that I couldn’t play it at night, the movie version requires you to sit next to a loved one so that you might have someone to cling to in moments of terror. It’s the kind of film that might look like just another horror movie for one who has never even heard of the game. As a fan of the series, I had a great time watching Silent Hill on the big screen. It wasn’t just that the monsters were terrifying, the overall visuals made me shiver, and the tense atmosphere kept my heart pounding for two hours. The fact that there were (convincing) flesh-and-blood actors instead of CG characters made me experience the sheer what-the-fuckness of the situation they were in - something that the game has never really given me.
Silent Hill gave me more than just my money’s worth and a wonderful time. I even picked up a couple of life lessons from the movie:
[1] Never adopt a kid, unless you know every single detail about his/her family origins. For all you know, your adopted child might be more demonic than the average kid in more ways than one.
[2] If you insisted on adopting a kid anyway, and you find that your kid sleepwalks and has dreams about a haunted place, do not take your child to the said place. Put him/her in a hospital instead. Or tie him/her to the bed at night. Or something.
[3] Always carry a weapon of sorts with you, be it a rock or a lead pipe. You never know when you’ll stumble upon a nightmare of a town crawling with monsters.
[4] When dealing with religious fanatics, keep in mind that you’ll always lose because you can’t reason with the stupid.
[5] After going through such an earth-shattering adventure, life will never be the same. No matter how much you try, things won’t go back to normal.
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after reading this post, parang gusto ko na ring manood ng silent hill.
Hehe.. I even looked at imdb comments para lang mabasa kung maganda talaga ung movie.
anyway, have a nice day! *hugs*
Cheers,
Airah
i havent played the game actually but I heard that it is good so I am also planning to watch the movie as well.
By the way, I love the header and I got here from IT2M
I would definitely recommend this movie to anyone. But if you aren’t familiar with the game and the story behind it, chances are you won’t appreciate it as much as a Silent Hill fan would.
Parang maganda nga ang story based on your post…
Seriously, you enjoyed watching Silent Hill? I thought it was a huge disappointment. I’ve been a fan of the video game ever since I can remember, so you can tell how excited I was when I first saw the trailer. But then it turned out to be a huge letdown. On the upside, though, the effects were pretty good. Is it just me, or are most of the video-game-turned-movie films just plain awful? Now don’t even get me started about Tomb Raider.
I think this was the best movie adaptation of a video game. If you were disappointed by the movie because of the changes in the plot, I understand why these changes had to be made. The story unfolds quite differently from the video game. Still, I thought the changes worked and was able to present the concepts behind the storyline very well.