Written by Roger Avary and directed by Christophe Gans, this adaptation of the hugely popular
Silent Hill game starts out a suffocating fog of creepiness wrapped around a memorably malevolent child spirit, but squanders its meticulously established atmosphere on a lengthy climactic sequence that owes a significant debt of inspiration to Clive Barker's HELLRAISER movies. Rose Da Silva (Radha Mitchell) is desperate to cure her daughter, Sharon (Jodelle Ferland), of nightmares and somnambulism, guided only by the words "Silent Hill," which the child wails in her sleep. When Rose discovers that there's a real Silent Hill, a ghost town in West Virginia — where she...
Released:
2006
Rated:
R
Length:
127 mins