After kaufmanns explanation, 1 of 3 conversations can happen between harry and cheryl, followed by 1 of 5 endings. I had a nice conversation with seven or eight people coming down on the escalator after we all saw silent hill. The movie was filmed in the super 35 film format, except the scenes with the darkness, which. This movie is hard to understand,to understand it well you have to know the silent hill games to enter in the movies atmophere. They said, youre supposed to be a movie critic, arent you. Silent hill the movie is an adaptation of a video game series also known as silent hill by the tokyobased konami corporation. This is about the much older videogame, silent hill 2. The movie wasnt my idea of a good time, but it certainly delivered the creeps. Silent hill 2 shows you the downward spiral of an abused and broken woman who eventually realizes theres no hope for her left after the horrors her family did to her and accepts silent hill as her fate.
Rose and chris adopted daughter, sharon, suffers from dangerous sleepwalking episodes, during which she often speaks about the ghost town, silent hill. The game was developed by team silent and published by konami. Silent hill the coal mining town, sure but not the one that flips back and forth. Spoiler haters be warned, because this will explain exactly why silent hill. For those of you who are curious about the movie but have never played the games, this might be helpful. Its usually a case of the playable character has committed a past crime and that their nightmare in silent hill is a representation of that. Silent hill is a 2006 psychological horror film directed by christophe gans and written by roger. 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. I had to interpret the whole final fantasy movie for my family. It is based on the survival horror video game silent hill 3 by konami. It was released for the sony playstation in north america on january 31, 1999. Silent hill story explanation alessa timeline my silent hill. The story is that the british built a colony prison in a hill which used to be a cemetery for native americans, called the place of silent spiritis.
It was released on october 26, 2012 by open road films as its alternate subtitle implies, the film was produced in 3d. Picking up right where we left off with part one we will start with guccis entrance at the half an hour mark in the movie. Revelation 3d features weak characters and an incomprehensible plot with a. All of u who liked it are fcking retarted they ruined the plot, characters, the script was garbage. The real world town of silent hill in the film was abandoned years before due to a raging coal fire burning beneath it. Silent hill was the first game that had a very complicated and complex story with in depth characters that left gamers in a state of disbelief as the credits rolled. Silent hill movie complete soundtrack aethryix xylor. 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. I went to wikipedia to get a better sense of what id seen. The movie leaves things very open, but below is my own take on it. I think playing the game could help with understanding this film.
Rose and sharon seem to be forever trapped within the foggy. Silent hill games tend to follow this theme of how the content of the nightmare experienced in silent hill relate to the character you are playing. The ending theme in the japanese version of the movie is anna tsuchiyas. The explanation that the cult of the original film is some sort of offshoot or different sect of the cult. Revelation 3d, is a 2012 horror thriller film written and directed by m. Why cant chris and rose see each other at the films end. The silent hill movies three layers of reality explained. 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. Revelation is a 2012 psychological horror film, directed and written by m.
The motivation of the cult in this film a dark entity trying to birth their demonic god is completely different from the cult of the original film, which was portrayed as fanatical christian witchburners. Silent hill is a 2006 horror film directed by christophe gans and written by roger. For instance, the 1st game silent hill deals with a guy named harry mason who searches his adoptive daughter cheryl after a car accident, while the game silent hill 2 talks about james sunderland who decides to go to silent hill town after receiving a letter from his deceased wife mary. The film follows rose as she brings her adopted daughter sharon to the abandoned town of. A woman, rose, goes in search for her adopted daughter within the confines of a strange, desolate town called silent hill.
Browse other questions tagged plot explanation ending silenthill. Silent hill is a much beloved franchise, both in game and now in movie format. The movie was very true to the game, plot wise, for a while, it. So does silent house, which is closely based on a 2010 argentinian thriller. Note that there are 4 silent hill games now, and the second installment is a bit. Silent hill movie soundtrack track 1 winged horse by aethryix xylor. Origins, silent hill, and silent hill 3 in order to really understand the movie. Complete fcking garbage, i will not waist 5 cents on it. Silent hill is the first installment in the silent hill series of psychological survival horror video games. Like the game series the silent hill movie features three layers of reality. The film follows rose as she brings her adopted daughter sharon to the abandoned town of silent hill.
Sadly, despite my hopes, silent hill makes the leap no better than any other attempt, although it tries darn hard. Despite its oftenoverwhelming nonsensicality, theres ultimately something irresistibly fiendish about silent hill, which not only condemns holierthanthou religious zealots, but alsoif i. Lots of scenes of the main character going around calling out someones name in silent hill. Here are the different levels of silent hill explained. He tries to enter silent hill during the day, so when he does get there he arrives in silent hill s normal dimension. Since the film, players have been able to witness the town transform in real time. Unable to accept the fact that her daughter is dying, rose radha mitchell decides to take the girl to a faith healer. Exploring the movie adaption of silent hill, based on the popular horror video game series. Il sagit dune adaptation du jeu video du meme titre. So ive always wondered why was rose still stuck in the fog world at then end of the film and after. Silent hill 2 plot guide playstation 2 by president. But silent hill is still superior when it comes to plot.
While there is little that could save this begrudged love story from then on, the worst is yet to come in the ending sequences. Silent hill follows the nightmarish story of rose radha mitchell, whose daughter sharon jodelle ferland is a longtime sleepwalker pulled by a mysterious force. But with her story she alluding that she in a young age became pregnant and birthed a baby. Shattered memories is a radical reimagining alternateuniverse echo of 1 that merely reuses certain characters names, traits, a. On the way, they encounter motorcycle cop cybil laurie holden, who follows rose and sharon to silent hill. 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. Psychiatrist michael kaufmann is preparing for a new patient. Mediocre effort even by the standards of video game adaptations, silent hill. The ending of the movie shows that even though they apparently left silent hill the town, they never left silent hill the alternate dimension. Rose takes sharon to silent hill, a coal mining town that appears to be haunting the girl. Silent hill movie soundtrack track 2 nightmares of home. Homecoming is a survival horror video game, the sixth installment in the silent hill series, developed by double helix games. No satisfactory explanation is given in the film to explain this and in fact the film explicitly implies they are the same cult on several occasions. Silent hill is a town somewhere in the united states that through centuries.
Added translations of part 2 religion of silent hill added translations of part 6 silent hill the movie analysis 20. Silent hill homecoming is a game that shows you graphic child murder in. Contrary to popular belief, silent hill is not just about alessa gillespie, although she is the main focus the first game and movie. Revelations plot follows adult heather mason who, discovering on the eve of her eighteenth birthda. Restless dreams a videogame by konami computer entertainment c2001, 2002 president evil 1.
Fans of the game are going to be divided over the slight liberties taken with the plot, but more than likely they should be extremely pleased to see that silent hill the movie is the most faithful gametofilm adaptation ever seen up to now. The order of valtial have been waiting for 100 years for a child to be born, who will be the vessel for their god, who in turn would create a new world. Silent hill 2 features the option to use both the old and new voices. Homecoming follows the journey of alex shepherd, a soldier returning from war, to his hometown of shepherds glen, where he finds the town in disarray, and his younger brother missing. Shattered memories article on the silent hill wiki at wikia and is licensed under the creative commons. The film follows rose, who takes her adopted daughter, sharon, to the town of silent hill, for which sharon cries while sleepwalking. Alessa could transform the town of silent hill into a world of nightmares and darkness which would kill anyone she. Silent hill is visually impressive, but as with many video game adaptations, its plagued by inane dialogue, a muddled plot, and an overlong runtime.
In fact, concerning the silent hill games, there are several of them, but they all deal with different stories. Silent hill 2 features both the main scenario and the born from a wish subscenario for maria. Click here for an explanation of the silent hill movie and here for silent hill revelation 3d. On the way, the pair drive through a portal in reality, leading to an eerie town called silent hill. Konamis 1999 psychological thriller silent hill is presented as a movie with minimal gameplay, for continuity purposes, and all cutscenes. I have recently watched silent hill again, but i couldnt really understand its ending. The young sharon was able to come out from silent hill and later when she is older, she was forced into silent hill, as in silent hill. Sharon finds dark alessa there, and dark alessa tries to absorb sharon, but sharon fights back with her power, and she was finally able to absorb dark alessa.
Arriving at silent hill, rose is involved in a car accident and awakens to find sharon missing. I do not really think that the video game series is vital to the understanding of the movie silent hill. Roses husband chris sean bean, game of thrones comes to the real town looking for her and sharon with a police escort, and while they dont encounter any monsters in the ghost town, chris does sense his wife when they briefly share the same space in different dimensions. What is an explanation for the ending of the movie silent. Probably, because there is no real explanation as to why a place like silent hill exists on an ethereal plane such as that. Finally added translations for the missing sections 11 of part 2 religion of silent hill. A running time of two hours and seven minutes for a horror game adaptation is unheard of in the film.
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