Silent Hill
Year: 2006
Director: Christophe Gans
Written by: Roger Avary
Threat: Monsters
Weapon of Choice: Barbed wire
Based upon: video game
Color/B&W/3D: Colour
Language: English
Country of Origin: USA
IMDb page: 
Silent HillYear: 2006 Director: Christophe Gans Written by: Roger Avary Threat: Monsters Weapon of Choice: Barbed wire Based upon: video game Color/B&W/3D: Colour Language: English Country of Origin: USA IMDb page: |
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The tyranist's thoughts
For months, Rish made fun of the promotional campaign for this movie, but when it came right down to it, he's the one that brought this over for us to watch. I thought the trailers made it look creepy, but my experience with video game movies has taught me to be overly cautious. Still, if I didn't want to watch horror flicks, I probably would have stopped contributing to the site ages ago.
So a woman and her little girl are driving through some odd back country when the girl goes missing. Soon her mother has followed her into a sort of nether realm where the rules aren't quite the same and the people are intermittently either severely deformed or very stupid. Terror follows.
So this had some of the pitfalls of video game movies, but holds up for the most part. They stayed within the parameters of the game and that is what hurt the movie. Playing a game is entirely different from the passive activity of watching the movie. While the visuals were fun to look at and there were a number of good scares, way too many things felt like set pieces and the plot was mostly of the "go here, do this, go there, do that" variety that most game designers rely on.
Even with as deep a flaw as that, the movie was easy to watch and didn't hurt the way most of them do. It didn't turn out to be just awful, but I still can't really recommend it. Even Sean Bean, who was barely in the movie, didn't help.
Posted: May 14, 2007
Total Skulls: 25
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| Rips off earlier film | ||
| Horror film showing on TV/in theater in movie | ||
| Future celebrity appears | ||
| Former celebrity appears | ||
| Bad title | ||
| Bad premise | ||
| Bad acting | ||
| Bad dialogue | ||
| Bad execution | |
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| MTV Editing | ||
| OTS | ||
| Girl unnecessarily gets naked | ||
| Wanton sex | ||
| Death associated with sex | ||
| Unfulfilled promise of nudity | ||
| Characters forget about threat | |
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| Secluded location | |
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| Power is cut | |
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| Phone lines are cut | |
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| Someone investigates a strange noise | |
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| Someone runs up stairs instead of going out front door | ||
| Camera is the killer | ||
| Victims cower in front of a window/door | ||
| Victim locks self in with killer | |
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| Victim running from killer inexplicably falls | |
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| Toilet stall scene | |
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| Shower/bath scene | ||
| Car stalls or won't start | |
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| Cat jumps out | ||
| Fake scare | ||
| Laughable scare | ||
| Stupid discovery of corpse | ||
| Dream sequence | ||
| Hallucination/Vision | |
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| No one believes only witness | |
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| Crazy, drunk, old man knows the truth | ||
| Warning goes unheeded | ||
| Music detracts from scene | ||
| Death in first five minutes | ||
| x years before/later | ||
| Flashback sequence | |
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| Dark and stormy night | |
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| Killer doesn't stay dead | ||
| Killer wears a mask | ||
| Killer is in closet | ||
| Killer is in car with victim | ||
| Villain is more sympathetic than heroes | ||
| Unscary villain/monster | ||
| Beheading | ||
| Blood fountain | |
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| Blood spatters - camera, wall, etc. | |
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| Poor death effect | ||
| Excessive gore | |
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| No one dies at all | ||
| Virgin survives | ||
| Geek/Nerd survives | ||
| Little kid lamely survives | ||
| Dog/Pet miraculously survives | ||
| Unresolved subplots | |
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| "It was all a dream" ending | ||
| Unbelievably happy ending | ||
| Unbelievably crappy ending | ||
| What the hell? | |