Silent Hill
We've been expecting you.
We've been expecting you.
Horror, Mystery
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2006
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Rose, a desperate mother, takes her adopted daughter, Sharon, to the town of Silent Hill in an attempt to cure her of her ailment. After a violent car crash, Sharon disappears, and Rose embarks on a horrific journey to get her back and begins to uncover the truth behind the apocalyptic disaster that burned the town 30 years earlier.
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Runtime:
125 min
Release date:
21 Apr 2006
Country:
CA, FR, JP
Languages:
English
Budget:
$50,000,000
Revenue:
$100,605,135
Awards:
8 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
French director Christophe Gans's adaptation of the Silent Hill computer game is visually inspired and thematically ambitious, yet ultimately uninvolving.
– Nigel Floyd,
Time Out,
6 May 2006
rotten:
Stuffed with cheap effects and devoid of tension, this French-Japanese-U.S. co-production contributes exactly zilch to the rich film history of those three nations.
– Bill Gallo,
Village Voice,
2 May 2006
rotten:
The film's peculiar rhythms%u2014action, exposition, action, exposition%u2014betray its video-game roots, but audiences unfamiliar with the Silent Hill series can be forgiven for thinking that the game asks players to run from place to place, shouting a l
– Scott Tobias,
AV Club,
27 Apr 2006
rotten:
Silent Hill is mostly paralyzing in its vagueness.
– Owen Gleiberman,
Entertainment Weekly,
26 Apr 2006
rotten:
Structured around a series of blackouts and gross-outs, Silent Hill is one long free fall through icky surrealism and underlighted nightmares.
– Nathan Lee,
New York Times,
25 Apr 2006