Filmed for 3D, you can notice by virtue of gimmicky camera work. This is the movie that actually has Adelaide Clemons in it, she plays a high school version of the girl from the first movie. Somehow Mom got her out of the Upside Down, she now lives with Dad, again played by Sean Bean, I think the only casting carry over from the first film. They move around alot and change names because they are affriad of the cult? Anyway the cult sends Jon Snow to befriend Adelaide and trick her back to Silent Hill, but they give up on him and just kidnap her dad. Jon Snow switches sides, trys to keep Adelaide from going but she goes and then nothing worth remembering happens because I can hardly remember anything from this movie I watched a week ago. Oh, Sean Bean is rescued and Malcom McDowell plays a crazy blind man. This movie was not worth the effort. *
Tuesday, April 7, 2026
Silent Hill (2006)
Adelaide Clemens is in the second Silent Hill movie, I like her so I wanted to watch that, so I decided to watch the first movie so I could understand the second one better. Mistake? Any understanding I garnerd was minimal.
Video game adaptation movies are rarly good, that held for this flick. They went all out on atmosphere, story and acting were afterthoughts. Movie is largley boring/confusing, though I found the climax entertaining as it was pretty nuts.
What's it about: Nice Ohio couple adopt a little girl named Sharon. Sharon has repeated nightmares where she is in Hell, she sleep walks out of the house and trys to throw herself in a local gorge. Family trys to get their daughter help, but none of it works, so Mom figures out daughter was born in a West Virginia town named 'Silent Hill'. Against husband's wishes wife takes daughter to Silent Hill to try and get answers.
Only Silent Hill is closed down, abandoned, the roads closed off. In the middle 70's a fire started in the coal mines that ran under the town, so town evacuated. Question, if this happend in the Nixon era how was a little girl of the Dubya era born there? Question is never really answered. Though it probably has to do with the religious cult that still exists in Silent Hill and view her as a kind of religious figure to be sacrificed or venerated or both, this is also not made clear.
Also Silent Hill seems to be in a kind of pocket dimension, an anex of Hell. The people that live their seem to think the whole world has decended into the same apocalyptic reality in which they dwell, though their is some devision within the cult and a number of its members have been semi banished. Also there is a cloud of darkness that I think can eat people? When it shows up the cult sounds old warning sirens and people take shelter. This is all just a portion of the overcrowded and often unclear mythology of Silent Hill.
In the end mother and daughter escape the town, but are still stuck in the pocket dimension which is misty and kind of like The Upside Down in Stranger Things. It's a mess of a movie, with a small scattering of elements that kind of work. * 1/2