In fact, concerning the silent hill games, there are several of them, but they all deal with different stories. The grate debate has a good video breakdown, but at 40 minutes long. It stars radha mitchell, sean bean, laurie holden, deborah kara unger, kim coates, tanya allen, alice krige, and jodelle ferland. The movie wasnt my idea of a good time, but it certainly delivered the creeps. I had a nice conversation with seven or eight people coming down on the escalator after we all saw silent hill. Alessa could transform the town of silent hill into a world of nightmares. Silent hill the movie is an adaptation of a video game series also known as silent hill by the tokyobased konami corporation. A woman, rose, goes in search for her adopted daughter within the confines of a strange, desolate town called silent hill. The film follows rose, who takes her adopted daughter, sharon, to the. When she wakes up, sharon has disappeared and rose is at the entrance to the deserted, dreamlike town of silent hill. Walking out after silent hill, i thought of that lonely pilot light, and i understood why i failed to understand the movie. Silent hill set a high standard for what we now call survival horror. Silent hill 2 is the second installment in the silent hill survival horror series and the first game of the series to be released for sony playstation 2.
Silent hill 2 features both the main scenario and the born from a wish subscenario for maria seen in later rereleases, namely the directors cut. It sounds like the opening of the popular konami video game series silent hill which was inspired by the town, but for the people of centralia, pennsylvania, this is a reality. Sadly, no matter how visually impressive silent hill may be at times, the incredibly weak story and exposition makes it a horrible film for outsiders to the silent hill saga. Silent hill 2 features the option to use both the old and new voices. The story is not explicit, but it seems like a large part of the town must have been part of the cult. Sharon would sleepwalk and cry out the name silent hill, and rose took her there to find out if there was anything about sharons past located there. For those of you who are curious about the movie but have never played the games, this might be helpful. Every day hed eat the same kind of food, dress the same, sit in front of the same kind of games. However, the road to silent hill is anything but easy to access, and rose creates a high speed chase between herself and a police officer only to end in a crash for them both. Note that there are 4 silent hill games now, and the second installment is a bit.
The distinction between actors and special effects shrinks ever further in the video gameturnedhorror film silent hill. Silent hill from 2006 is considered one of the better adaptations and draws heavily from the first games story while cherrypicking elements from later games. Oct 24, 2017 even pyramidhead makes an appearance with his giant machete sword. When the movie is focused on the silent hill elements the movies. The silent hill movie is a shallow, uninteresting, and incredibly annoying excuse for a pathetic, brainless gore flick that could have come out of that miserable genres most disgusting peak in the 1990s, if it hadnt been for the special effects. They could also make a silent hill movie based on those 2 detectives looking for heather. It picks up concepts and aesthetics but none of the story. The 2006 silent hill movie deviates considerably from this timeline and is considered an alternate universe in the. The town had a major cult sect congregation of believers and zealots that were quite strict and fairly harsh. Sharon was adopted from west virginia and silent hill is in west virginia. As for my theory, interestingly enough, it actually. In the film, silent hill is a west virginia ghost town abandoned in 1974 due to a devastating fire. The film follows rose as she brings her adopted daughter sharon to the abandoned town of silent hill.
Click here for an explanation of the silent hill movie and here for silent hill revelation 3d. Like the game series the silent hill movie features three layers of reality. Origins, you play a truck driver and the enemies in the game relate to his past crimes, for instance the most obvious of these being the monsters who resemble road kill, which isnt really a crime against nature but it represents how death haunts his life. But by the time they knew how to play the games, the brain went dark, except for one little point. So does silent house, which is closely based on a 2010 argentinian thriller. Based on multiple playthroughs and research, weve compiled the following silent hill story explanation for you. Lots of scenes of the main character going around calling out someones name in silent hill. Silent hill story explanation alessa timeline my silent hill.
Rose takes sharon to silent hill, a coal mining town that appears to be haunting the girl. The ending to silent hill revelation spoilers movies. Silent hill town based on the real life story of centralia, pa. Ash and smoke erupt from the earth, people flee their homes, and a once vibrant township is now a ghost town. Rose and sharon are trapped in the the city, and the explanation boils down to because reasons. Personally the 2006 film is a stunning masterclass in how to make a visually beautiful and atmospheric film that not only stuns the audience with dark and gory imagery but haunts us with its story and chilling symbolism. Jul 02, 2014 sign in to like videos, comment, and subscribe. Revelation trivia in a later interview, bassett admitted to secondguessing many of the creative choices in the film, often altering her vision to try and make the movie more broad and appealing for the producers, instead of fighting to make a more personal film with a clear vision. The movie leaves things very open, but below is my own take on it. While sh is one of the better executed attempts at making a gamebased movie, the ending comes across as if the writers havent learn. Even pyramidhead makes an appearance with his giant machete sword. Apr 20, 2006 at first, when they were figuring out the games, he said, the whole brain lit up.
Why silent hill 2 is still the most disturbing game ever. This is about the much older videogame, silent hill 2. Silent hill, maine, is a quiet american resort town known for its very peaceful ambiance, but the memories of a tragic house fire seven years ago, in which a girl named alessa gillespie died, still haunts the town and the townsfolk. A more definitive version of the game, silent hill 2. Revelation 3d, which reduces its human players to plastic action figures.
Disturbing silent hill facts you had no idea about thegamer. Dec 08, 2011 in 2006, a film based on the videogame was made, directed by christopher gans, in which the plot follows loosely the first and third episode of the series. He couldnt even be original about the way he did it. Why cant chris and rose see each other at the films end. Origins, silent hill, and silent hill 3 in order to really understand the movie. Book of lost memories is an official and large source of information for silent hill, including the stories for all the games, lore explanations, charactermonster descriptions, and some explanation of symbolism.
Revelation 3d 2012 a lthough i have not played the game on which this film is based nor would i care to, i have to say that as a film it works from an artistic standpoint, but falls slightly flat in storyline, oddly enough making it a little hard to follow. The room history of the series fullhd remake duration. The screenplay was written by roger avary, christope gans, and nicolas boukhrief. Like most major video games franchises, silent hill also received a couple of movie adaptations.
The silent hill movie 2006 was loosely based on this game. After they broke into her house and see come to silent hill, its obvious thats where they go next. The movie didnt require the viewer to really know or understand any specific backstory the characters in the movie are all new but it does help to have a sense for how these stories work and how silent hill the town operates. Sometime in the mid 70s, the town of silent hill was a depressed mining community in west virgina.
Revelation is a 2012 psychological horror film, directed and written by m. Silent hill follows the nightmarish story of rose radha mitchell, whose daughter sharon jodelle ferland is a longtime sleepwalker pulled by a mysterious force. The film s peculiar rhythms%u2014action, exposition, action, exposition%u2014betray its videogame roots, but audiences unfamiliar with the silent hill. What is an explanation for the ending of the movie silent hill. Let me explain, for those who have never played silent hill 2, or those who only ever played it once.
Jan 29, 2018 i think playing the game could help with understanding this film. Jan 20, 2014 one thing thats very important in silent hill, taken straight from the game, is that there are messages everywhere, things you have to read, to understand the story behind the story. Desperate to help her child, rose takes sharon to silent hill where she and a concerned police officer become trapped in an alternate reality of ash, monsters, and cultists. Silent hill is a 2006 psychological horror film directed by christophe gans and written by roger avary, gans, and nicolas boukhrief. The game was developed by team silent and published by konami. With its disturbing images, unnerving camera angles and scenarios that are just plain wrong, silent hill remains a benchmark upon many horror games are compared. I do not really think that the video game series is vital to the understanding of the movie silent hill. Rose and chris adopted daughter, sharon, suffers from dangerous sleepwalking episodes, during which she often speaks about the ghost town, silent hill. Henry townshend is living in south ashfield, a town that is a half a days drive away from silent hill. Restless dreams, was rereleased with new features on the playstation 2. He is currently happy with his daily life, living in the. Silent hill is visually impressive, but as with many video game adaptations, its plagued by inane dialogue, a muddled plot, and an overlong runtime.
Exploring the movie adaption of silent hill, based on the popular horror video game series. Contrary to popular belief, silent hill is not just about alessa gillespie, although she is the main focus the first game and movie. A sequel to the 2006 film silent hill, it stars adelaide clemens, kit harington, martin donovan, malcolm mcdowell and carrieanne moss, along with sean bean, deborah kara unger and radha mitchell returning from the previous film. Bear in mind, im not talking about that abomination they released as a sequel to this movie. I went to wikipedia to get a better sense of what id seen. May 06, 2019 there are many theories about who pyramid head is. I thought they would show up there later in the movie but it looks like they just set it up for a new movie or part of harrychris story. Silent hill is a town somewhere in the united states that through centuries. Avary commented that as a boy, his father, who was a mining engineer, used to tell him stories about centralia, where coal deposits from the local mine caught fire and released toxic gases into the town, as well as.
Ive yet to find a clear, succinct explanation of the story for those curious about it. The first half of the movie was actually slightly better than i expected. The film is an adaptation of konamis 1999 video game silent hill. Silent hill s screenwriter, roger avary, used the town of centralia, pennsylvania as an inspiration for the town of silent hill. In the movie there are clues all over the place which give the audience hints about the past of silent hill. Nov 11, 20 silent hill is a much beloved franchise, both in game and now in movie format. The silent hill movies three layers of reality explained. Nov 18, 2015 underneath the streets a massive fire burns. That movie was truly terrible in every sense of the word and was an affront to the silent hill creators. This timeline of events covers silent hill, silent hill 3 and silent hill.
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