A remastered high-definition version of it is due for release for the PlayStation 3. I hope there will be a 3rd Silent Hill movie. Release date. In Silent Hill: Revelation 3D, Heather Mason (Clemens) and her father (Bean) have. TV Premiere Dates 2020. Mediocre effort even by the standards of video game adaptations, Silent Hill. In the video game-turned-horror film Silent Hill: Revelation 3D, which reduces. September 19, 2017 Rating: 3/5 Full Review.
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After being a film critic for a few years now, I've started to learn the cardinal signs of a film that hasn't exactly come together the way the studio had hoped. Back in Toronto on the set of last summer, things looked promising. Director Christophe Gans was a big fan of the games, the sets looked very cool, the casting was perfect and Gans himself appeared to fully understand the many, many failings of video game movies past. The teaser trailer earlier this year looked good, the promotional posters and ads looked good.
Could it finally be? Would there actually be a video game movie that was worth its salt? All of the sudden, Screen Gems pulled the plug, as they have so many times before. The press junkets and interviews were cancelled. Screenings were cancelled. Days before the release at the premiere, critics were turned away.
This was a really, really bad sign. I figured it was one of two things. Either the film was downright junk, or just a bit too weird (in some of the same ways as Gans' prior effort, Brotherhood of the Wolf). Still, I liked what I had seen on set, I liked the cast and I thought Gans was an interesting choice, so I tried my best to alleviate preconceived notions and proceed to this day-of-release press screening with an open mind.opens with the dreams of young Sharon (Jodelle Ferland). She is sleepwalking outside in the night and her mother, Rose (Radha Mitchell), is desperately pursuing her. When she finally catches up to her daughter, the girl utters out cries of the words, 'Silent Hill, Silent Hill' Against the wishes of her husband Chris (Sean Bean), Rose decides to take a trip with her daughter to this mysterious town and try to find out what she remembers from her past before she was adopted. Through some internet searches, Rose has learned that the town is rumored to be haunted, but its true secrets have been hidden in locked records for years.
Just before entering the town, Rose encounters a persistent policewoman named Cybil. Scared and determined, Rose speeds away and down the road to the abandoned town of Silent Hill. When a girl who looks like Sharon appears in the road, Rose swerves to avoid her and crashes, falling unconscious. When she comes to, her daughter is missing. The town, as gamers well know, is no normal town.
There are assorted ghouls around most every corner, especially when the town siren sounds off and all goes dark. Cybil soon joins Rose to help her in the pursuit of her lost daughter. The deeper they get, the more is revealed of the past atrocities of Silent Hill and the demons that still lurk about in the dark. Visually, Silent Hill looks spectacular. The dark, highly atmospheric, intricately detailed set pieces are often lifted straight from the game.
Silent Hill is, at its most basic level, a haunted house movie, but the house is the whole town. Every corner reveals another barrage of horrific imagery. During the day, a snow falls constantly on the town, but when Rose catches a snow flake, she realizes it is actually just ash. The transition of the town from day to light is a very cool effect. Rooms turn to ash, bloody-vein like branches cover the walls. The look of Silent Hill is undeniably creepy. The set pieces are often so good that they seem to promise something more to come than is ultimately delivered by the unfolding storyline.
From armless demons with vacuous pits in their stomach, to dwarf-like, face-less assemblages of ash to a big dude with some kind of gladiator helmet wielding a machete that would give Jason Voorhees an inferiority complex, the creature effects of Silent Hill are well done. Primarily Computer Generated, they are perfectly lit and never look jerky or obviously fake. Again, these eerie, frightening characters themselves offer more irks from their look rather than how they play into the movie.
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