 | 映画原題: Silent Hill [ 映画邦題: サイレント・ヒル] : 話題注目作劇場公開映画 |  | |  |  | |  | Silent Hill : Hollywood Cinema Director : シネマ作品監督紹介 | | Silent Hill : Actor [CAST・CREW] : アクター・アクトレス(男優・女優・声優)&ミュージシャン・アーティスト紹介 | | Silent Hill : 本国映画ライターによる映画の内容 with イングリッシュ : English Description of Story |  |  |  |  | Amazon.com:A lot of movies can be described as "dripping with atmosphere," but in the case of Silent Hill it's literally true. Faithfully adapted from the Konami video games by French director Christophe Gans and Pulp Fiction cowriter Roger Avary (both self-confessed video game addicts), this dark and grisly horror-fest is nothing if not a triumph of cinematography and production design, consisting of a minimal and mostly incoherent plot propped up by a mysterious maze of sets that literally seep, drip, and ooze with the atmospheric evil of past misdeeds. Welcome to the abandoned and perpetually foggy ghost town of Silent Hill, where grey ash falls like snow, a devastating coal-mine fire still burns in a hellish underground, and demons of various shapes and sizes make your worst nightmares seem like a walk in the park. It's here that distressed mother Rose (played by Pitch Black heroine Radha Mitchell) has taken her daughter Sharon (Jodelle Ferland) in hopes of discovering the source of Sharon's sleepwalking nightmares. What they find instead is a burned-out legacy of unspeakable evil, as Silent Hill's dark secrets are revealed. As opposing denizens of Silent Hill's meta-morphing underworld, Canadian actresses Alice Krige and Deborah Kara Unger seem to be the only ones who recognize this morbid mess as campy comedy; Gans (who established his visual flair with The Brotherhood of the Wolf) and Avary take it far too seriously, and the entire movie is utterly devoid of any emotional hooks or plot logic that would make us care about anything that happens. In crafting a loyal big-screen rendition of Silent Hill and its Playstation sequels, they've forgotten that movies play by a different and more demanding set of rules. As a result, they've made an impressive-looking but ultimately hollow horror film that only Silent Hill game-players can truly appreciate. --Jeff Shannon |  |  |  |  | | | | | Silent Hill : 現地ハリウッド市民の評価 : 英語批評版 : Native Evaluation | | | | |  Silent Hill is no place you'd ever want to live / 2006-06-23
The movie Silent Hill is probably the best adaptation of a video game property to the medium of film so far. Of course that is a little like saying the original Volkswagen Beetle is the best floating car so far - you're still not getting a cruise liner. But after the sheer garbage that has been trotted out as video-game-to-movie entertainment in the last year, Silent Hill stands head and shoulders above the rest of the crowd.
Silent Hill has as the center of its story Rose Da Silva (Radha Mitchell) and her daughter Sharon (Jodelle Ferland). Sharon was adopted by Rose and her husband Christopher (Sean Bean) as an infant. They know she came from an orphanage in West Virginia but nothing of the circumstances surrounding her coming up for adoption. Now nine years old, Sharon has lately been sleepwalking into dangerous situations and has uttered the words "Silent Hill" each time. Rose finds that there is a town in West Virginia called Silent Hill and becomes convinced she must take her daughter to it in order to save her from the increasingly-dangerous bouts of sleepwalking. Husband Christopher is not convinced this is a good idea.
Silent Hill is not your average sleepy little burg. In 1974 a fire started that ignited coal seams under the town. Many deaths occurred, of which a great number of the bodies were never found, and the whole town was evacuated as the underground coal continued to burn out of control. The town has since been sealed off and the state highway no longer goes there.
Almost to Silent Hill, Sharon arouses the suspicion of a motorcycle cop, Cybil Bennet (Laurie Holden). Bennet gives chase and pulls over Rose and Sharon, but seeing the turnoff for Silent Hill is close, Rose speeds away with Officer Bennet tailing. As she gets to the town limits sign, Rose sees a girl in the road and instinctively swerves to avoid her. Coming to after the accident, Rose finds Sharon gone and herself in a nightmare world. All around her the town is gray and ash falls from the sky like snow. There are also creatures that could only have come from the mind of someone like HP Lovecraft. Initially Rose thinks she is alone, but she later finds that Officer Bennet also crossed over into this nightmare dimension and that not all of the human inhabitants of Silent Hill are gone either. What follows is Rose's odyssey to find her daughter and learn the truth that underlies the events at Silent Hill.
The story does not always fully explain elements and often seems to actually revel in obfuscating bits of its own plotline. But the string of events is clear enough and it ultimately works as a tale of supernatural horror in a location existing just below and parallel to the real world where terrible deeds caused a local to be cut off and isolated from the one we regularly perceive; a theme that has been explored several times in the supernatural horror and science fiction genres. Sadly, the film does drag in a couple of spots and its in-excess-of-two-hours running time is a bit long for the actual amount of story present in the movie.
Silent Hill is based on the game of the same name by Konami that first appeared on the original PlayStation console in early 1999. And several elements of the game did make it to the movie. The initial setup of a person having an accident and waking up to find his daughter missing is the same - with a change of sex of the main character. The game device of radios giving off a burst of static when monsters are close is incorporated too. I think most fans of the game will find the movie nicely captures its essence.
Silent Hill is ably directed by Christophe Gans, a French director who cut his horror-genre teeth with such films as Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001) and Necronomicon: Book of Dead (1994). Like many European film makers, he gives a great deal of time to establishing mood and atmosphere rather than just rushing from one set-piece action scene to the next. I was also very pleased to see that Gans did not use the tired device of things suddenly jumping out at the audience to achieve his scares. Things creep from the shadows so you know what is happening, but as a watcher you are powerless to change it. Being powerless is very scary.
Gans got a first-rate cast for his movie. Radha Mitchell (Finding Neverland, Melinda and Melinda) will be familiar to Sci-Fi fans as the pilot Frye in the thriller Pitch Black, a role I thought she was very good and believable in. Of course the husband, Sean Bean, is probably best known to film goers as Boromir in Peter Jackson's adaptation of a little book series called The Lord of the Rings. Jordelle Ferland, playing daughter Sharon, will be instantly recognizable to rabid watchers of Stephen King mini-series for her portrayal of the haunting little girl in the interesting, sometimes-funny, but ultimately-too-long Kingdom Hospital that aired on ABC in 2004. Laurie Holden (The Majestic, The Fantastic Four) as Officer Cybil Bennet is underutilized in the story, but the character's limited role is well-played by the actress. An under-appreciated actress who is experienced in the Sci-Fi and horror genres through her appearances as the Borg queen in Star Trek: First Contact and the malevolent mother in Stephen King's Sleepwalkers, Alice Krige gives another fine performance as the fanatical leader of the human inhabitants of Silent Hill township, Christabella.
The look of the film is excellent. Silent Hill is no place you'd ever want to live - whether in the real world or the nightmare dimension inhabited by weird creatures. The effects are really good with the creature design very accurately capturing the disturbing images that gave the original game such a unique style.
I'm probably going to be in a minority of film reviewers here, but I actually enjoyed Silent Hill. It admittedly has some flaws in story development and lags a little while running a bit long, but I believe fans of the game or fans of the supernatural-horror genre are going to enjoy it. See it on a big screen for maximum impact.
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I received a call from my brother about this film. He was not quite sure what he had just seen. He thought it may have been great, but did not really trust his own judgement and asked me to see it with him again.
I am not a horror fan, nor have I ever played the games, but I must agree that this was one of the best psychological thrill rides into the depths of horror archetypes ever created.
It seems to be using the basics of dream interpretation of jungian psychology and creating disturbing and relentless images that will disorient and keep one thinking about the movie for weeks after.
Even though it is not altogether without flaws, there are some unnecessary explanations, stock dialog and over the top climatic gore - but what this movie excels at is bringing the viewer to a place of wonder and horror, where the demons that populate silent hill are our own.
It is the inner journey of overcoming fear and choosing sides when the division between good and evil are blurred that makes this movie unlike any other of the genre and worthy of 5 stars. | | | | | | | | | | | | Game? It was a game? / 2006-06-21
For someone that hadn't even heard of Silent Hill (GASP!) until after the movie, I found it to be very impressive; both in its setup and in the execution.
Since this review is based off just seeing the movie and not knowing which characters, lines, plot points, et al were part of the original game or the sequels; fanboys and gamers alike-please bear with me.
The story starts off as most horror movies of today start..a strange raven haired child scares the bejeezus out of their parents as they wonder just what is going on. Mumbling about "Silent Hill" near a very treacherous waterfall certainly is enough to bring Radha Mitchell and an extremely miscast (and underused) Sean Bean at ends with each other in how their adopted daughter is to be treated.
After a few internet searches (does anyone still use Yahoo! or MSN for their internet scouring anymore?) Radha comes to a story describing the tragedy in Silent Hill, WV. Going there, she hopes, will bring her daughter out of the "New Millenium Creepy Child character trait" funk.
It doesn't. We start, then further treading down the same "New Millenium Creepy Child character" path...chasing a girl that doesn't talk, but darts in and out of dilapidated, rundown rooms and condemned buildings. All the while, the exasperated parent vainly looks for them.
The female police officer is wearing the tightest leather outfit I've ever seen without having to pay a cover charge and listening to Emo or KMFDM all night. My first thought? Whoa..Joan Jett is in here! :) Alas, it wasn't. Unfortunately, she's tied to a stake and made to feel like the other side of a human pig roast.
Silent Hill is creepy. Intensely creepy. The sirens are fantastically eerie...Definitely something you don't want to hear in real life. The monsters-especially Triangle Head-are straight out of a Lovecraft/Dali dream montage; or at least from a Wes Carpenter movie.
**SPOILERS AHEAD**
By the time Alice Krige (the busiest plain jane in movies) hits the screen, the plot starts sliding to a videogame plot (memorize the floorplan, defeat the monster in his lair), which pretty much means all hell is going to break loose. It had me until the time the cop was accused of being a witch. After that, the reveal (done as a very effective set of flashbacks) is little more than a revenge story; which tends to lose it's credibility to some extent. Again, as someone that wasn't familiar with the games, it was fun to know that a lot of the beasties and clues were taken directly from the games.
Not many movies adapted from other media (books, videogames, Podcasts) are going to be as faithful as fanboys would like. Think if George Lucas had published the Star Wars episodes as books prior to 1977. Remember..Han Solo was supposed to be a cross between Greedo and Chewy, if I remember right.
"Silent Hill" certainly has my attention and I will definitely be placing the DVD on my Christma...er, sorry, Winter Solstice Holiday Wish List... It's worth a money for a rental and perhaps a purchase as maybe (I hope) an audio reference disc. | | | | | | | | | | | | Silent Hill - not so quiet. / 2006-06-16
Admitedly, I have played all four games through - each more than once. I suppose that makes the film all that much more enjoyable, but at the same time allowed me to see just how darn good this movie really is.
Silent Hill has a somewhat complicated plot. I think that a lot of the comments relating to this movie not making sense, are due to the complexity of the story. Since the film makers took so much from the game, it is clear to see how well done this movie is. I don't want to spoil anyone's fun here, so I won't spill all the details. For those who have played the games, I'm sure there's little new stuff here, but for anyone checking out Silent Hill for the first time, I ask that you don't give in to the idea that "If you didn't catch it, then it is not there." I have played Silent Hill 2 at least eight times, and I'm still catching some really cool stuff - as I'm sure the movie will do for me when it is released on DVD.
This is a story about a place that has become corrupted by religion - through and through. It is kind of like a disease. It spreads. Consumes. Devours. And in horror, that is like sitting down to your favorite meal. It's all there. Characters you want to see overcome, others you want to see torn apart. Monsters. Being alone in the dark. Blood. Rusty knives.
At the core of Silent Hill is a mystery. Why has this town become such a twisted and horrific place? Why does it change when the siren calls? What draws someone to a place like this? And these questions are answered. And new ones arise. Something I would beg a sequal for, though it isn't as though there should have to be one. I'm happy with what I got here.
If you have an open mind and enjoy the essence of horror, mystery, and suspense, I don't think you can go wrong. Of course, there is no one film that everyone will enjoy. It usually comes down to taste and the mental outlook of the viewer. I would recomend checking this place called Silent Hill out when the DVD arrives. (The film came out two months ago, so you might not get the chance of the theater experience.) It is creepy, mysterious, interesting, emotional, and, at times, downright scary. And that's good, right? | | | | | | | | | | | | Creepy, twisted, bizarre and very flawed / 2006-06-16
I liked this movie a lot. That may result from the fact that I am a big fan of the Silent Hill videogames. I also love this type of horror: weird monsters, bizarre nightmarish settings, and no logic to be found anywhere. The game was inspired by this type of horror: the works of H.P. Lovecraft, Clive Barker and Stephen King, Barker's Hellraiser, Wes Craven's Nightmare on Elm Street, Adrian Lyne's Jacob's Ladder and probably Italian goremasters such as Dario Argento and Lucio Fulci. So that's what you're in for with Silent Hill. You're either a fan of this type of stuff, or you're not. Personally, I love it. Give me monsters and creatures over serial killers and slashers any day. Surreal horror (or fantasy horror) is by far the most interesting horror subgenre to me.
We have a very atmospheric, creepy, story-driven, very cinematic game which would seemingly be perfect for a movie adaptation. We have a director, Christophe Gans, who is a big fan of the game and downright passionate about making the movie. It would seem that the movie is in the right hands. However, the results are unfortunately very uneven. While unable to break the long-running videogame movie curse, Silent Hill stills ends up being a very worthwhile movie for certain viewers. That would be fans of the videogame and/or fans of surreal Clive Barker-esque horror. Director Gans has done a remarkable job. The movie looks amazing. The production design and cinematography are top-notch, recreating the look and feel of the game perfectly. The ash snowfall, the deserted streets, the ubiquitous fog, even the wild camera angles. In fact, the first half of Silent Hill is so good that the second half is immensely disappointing in comparison. I think the filmmakers got too concerned with faithfully adapting the game that they gave little consideration to plot and dialogue. As in the games, the story is oblique and often incomprehensible. However, what makes the movie worthwhile are the strong points: creepy atmosphere, awesome bizarre monsters and lots of blood and gore.
However, as I said before the movie is far from perfect. Some of the dialogue is downright horrible, some of the acting is pretty bad, some of the CG effects are less than stellar, and of course the story makes very little sense. For me, those flaws did not detract from the viewing experience. I still enjoyed the movie immensely because of what it gets right. Some will be able to overlook the many flaws and enjoy the good stuff, others won't and will probably hate the movie. A lot of viewers will probably leave the movie saying "What the @#$*?" But at most, Silent Hill should (like the game) find a devoted cult following. I really want to see a sequel, because there is so much potential here that the movie didn't quite live up to and I would love to see more monsters, more Pyramid Head and more Darkness. Hopefully the sequel will correct the first movie's flaws. I do hope that Christophe Gans will return for the second film and hopefully, with a better script, it will live up to the enormous potential of the game's concept. But until then I will just enjoy the movie. I am very much looking forward to the DVD release.
So for fans of the game, do check out the movie. For fans of surreal fantasy-horror, check it out. Anyone else may want to proceed with caution. | | | | | | | | 
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