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Movie ID: 1188
RT slug: silent_hill
RT URL: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/silent_hill
Release year: 2006
Runtime: 125 mins
Wide release date: 2006-04-21
Limited release date: —
Festival premiere date: —
Streaming release date: 2012-04-16
Tomatometer final: 34%
Audience score final: 63%
Genres: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Directors: Christophe Gans
Writers: Christophe Gans, Nicolas Boukhrief, Roger Avary, Roger Roberts
Producers: Don Carmody, Samuel Hadida
MPAA rating: R
Executive Producers: —
Created: 2026-08-19 20:52:16
Updated: 2026-08-19 20:52:16
Unable to accept the fact that her daughter is dying, Rose (Radha Mitchell) decides to take the girl to a faith healer. On the way, the pair drive through a portal in reality, leading to an eerie town called Silent Hill. The town is surrounded by a potent darkness, and the human survivors fight a losing battle against it.
Silent Hill is visually impressive, but as with many video game adaptations, it's plagued by inane dialogue, a muddled plot, and an overlong runtime.
Canonical reviews: 112
Canonical fresh: 38
Canonical rotten: 74
Canonical calculated Tomatometer: 34%
Latest snapshot UTC: 2026-08-19 18:47:31
Snapshot Tomatometer: 34%
Snapshot review count: 112
Snapshot fresh count: 38
Snapshot rotten count: 74
Source note: Imported from manual review paste batch #2887 (full_snapshot)
| Company | Role |
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| Sony Pictures Entertainment | distributor |
| Davis Films | production |
| TriStar Pictures | production |
| Billing | Name | Character |
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| 1 | Radha Mitchell | Rose |
| 2 | Laurie Holden | Cybil Bennet |
| 3 | Sean Bean | Christopher |
| 4 | Deborah Kara Unger | Dahlia Gillespie |
| 5 | Tanya Allen | Alessa Gillespie |
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| ID | Critic | Outlet | Fresh? | Score | RT Time Raw | Approx Published UTC | Quote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 246003 | Sarah Vincent | Sarah G Vincent Views | Fresh | — | 2026-01-22T22:14:38.000Z | 2026-01-22 22:14:38 | "Silent Hill" is Stephen King’s "Carrie" on steroids. |
| 246004 | Bryce Hanson | Horror Movie Talk | Rotten | 4/10 | 2025-12-04T18:07:44.000Z | 2025-12-04 18:07:44 | Unfortunately, the writing and acting is distractingly bad at times. Honestly, it felt like they spent all the budget on the production design, and then midway realized they never bothered with a script. |
| 246005 | Julian Singleton | Cinapse | Fresh | — | 2025-07-12T18:47:03.000Z | 2025-07-12 18:47:03 | Christophe Gans’ film remains an undeniably visceral and terrifying film, immersing the audience in a uniquely nightmarish world that runs on its own perverse dream logic. |
| 246006 | Sharai Bohannon | A Nightmare On Fierce Street Podcast | Fresh | 4/5 | 2025-05-23T11:52:08.000Z | 2025-05-23 11:52:08 | This is one of the best video game adaptations I have ever seen. It's brutal, dirty, and understands the video games I loved as a kid. |
| 246007 | Grant Watson | Fiction Machine | Fresh | 6/10 | 2025-02-11T02:41:45.000Z | 2025-02-11 02:41:45 | Concentrate on the design of the piece, and Silent Hill is a very effective and perverse fantasy thriller. Pay too much attention to the writing, and it will become a a much more hollow, unedifying experience. |
| 246008 | Brian Bisesi | Horror Movie Club Podcast | Rotten | 2/5 | 2024-05-22T14:40:29.000Z | 2024-05-22 14:40:29 | While this adaptation was surprisingly faithful to the game, when told through the medium of film the plot is a bloated and confusing mess. It is hard to connect with the film’s characters in the onslaught of horror imagery and exposition dumps. |
| 246009 | Eddie Harrison | film-authority.com | Fresh | 3/5 | 2023-06-04T09:14:34.000Z | 2023-06-04 09:14:34 | …Silent Hill is no masterpiece, the plotting is lopsided, the climax confusing and somewhat repellently violent in a Clive Barker way, but it’s also a strong, female-driven story with exquisite visuals and sound design… |
| 246010 | Brian Eggert | Deep Focus Review | Rotten | 2.5/4 | 2022-09-25T00:31:29.000Z | 2022-09-25 00:31:29 | The result looks better than most based-on-a-video-game adaptations, but the storytelling is just as dim as we’ve come to expect from such material. |
| 246011 | James Croot | The Post NZ | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2022-08-19T21:41:25.000Z | 2022-08-19 21:41:25 | Fans of the game could well be bewitched by Gans' attempts to recreate its tone and atmosphere, but those unfamiliar with the storyline will simply be left bothered and bewildered. |
| 246012 | Joe Lipsett | Horror Queers Podcast | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2021-04-29T01:02:36.000Z | 2021-04-29 01:02:36 | Unfairly maligned by critics, Silent Hill is a gorgeous, mostly faithful video game adaptation that benefits from director Christophe Gans' impressive visual eye. |
| 246013 | Trace Thurman | Horror Queers Podcast | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2021-04-26T22:40:57.000Z | 2021-04-26 22:40:57 | Gets lost over-explaining things in the last act (which somehow makes it even more confusing), but the first two are filled with such great atmosphere and style that it mostly makes up for it. |
| 246014 | Alberto Abuín | Espinof | Rotten | — | 2020-02-13T00:02:06.000Z | 2020-02-13 00:02:06 | A very weak movie, which could have been much better. [Full Review in Spanish] |
| 246015 | Chris Stuckmann | ChrisStuckmann.com | Fresh | B | 2019-10-24T16:31:18.000Z | 2019-10-24 16:31:18 | Where this movie shines is in its disturbing imagery, its very creepy visuals, and the stunning production design. |
| 246016 | Matt Brunson | Film Frenzy | Rotten | 2/4 | 2019-07-13T17:45:29.000Z | 2019-07-13 17:45:29 | Certainly, it's a far better bet than such unwatchable video-game efforts as Assassin's Creed, Max Payne and the worst-of-the-worst Alone in the Dark, even if it doesn't offer much more than superb visuals wrapped around an underwhelming narrative. |
| 246017 | Mattie Lucas | The Dispatch (Lexington, NC) | Rotten | 0/4 | 2019-06-05T23:22:07.000Z | 2019-06-05 23:22:07 | A train wreck. And this one is so bad I couldn't wait to look away. |
| 246018 | Luis Caviaro | Espinof | Fresh | — | 2019-04-25T22:27:17.000Z | 2019-04-25 22:27:17 | An entertaining horror film. [Full Review in Spanish] |
| 246019 | Film School Rejects Staff | Film School Rejects | Fresh | B+ | 2019-04-25T22:07:28.000Z | 2019-04-25 22:07:28 | The story is complex and kind of hard to follow, but this didn't stop it from being enjoyable. |
| 246020 | Adam Smith | Radio Times | Rotten | 2/5 | 2019-04-25T20:47:36.000Z | 2019-04-25 20:47:36 | There are worse adaptations of video games out there but this one will probably leave the PlayStation generation itching for their consoles. |
| 246021 | Sebastian Zavala Kahn | Más Gamers | Fresh | 3/4 | 2017-02-27T18:37:25.000Z | 2017-02-27 18:37:25 | An atmospheric, disturbing and bloody movie, very true to the video games. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 246022 | Gary Dowell | Baltimore City Paper | Rotten | — | 2010-01-22T03:15:32.000Z | 2010-01-22 03:15:32 | Visually arresting but only sporadically enthralling. |
| 246023 | Felix Vasquez Jr. | Cinema Crazed | Fresh | — | 2009-04-29T03:15:32.000Z | 2009-04-29 03:15:32 | It's one of the best video game adaptations I've seen in years. |
| 246024 | Garth Franklin | Dark Horizons | Rotten | — | 2008-01-15T03:15:19.000Z | 2008-01-15 03:15:19 | Whilst not as atrocious as some other films that have opened this year, the truely woeful story and quality of Silent is saved only by its occasion moments of visual flair, and its all over effective creepy atmosphere. |
| 246025 | Rob Gonsalves | Rob's Movie Vault | Fresh | C | 2007-10-31T15:56:43.000Z | 2007-10-31 15:56:43 | When everything starts being explained, the mystery evaporates and the world of the game loses its eerie bafflement. |
| 246026 | Joe Lozito | Big Picture Big Sound | Rotten | 1.5/4 | 2007-07-14T03:15:43.000Z | 2007-07-14 03:15:43 | The latest, most ambitious and perhaps least comprehensible video game adaptation in recent memory. |
| 246027 | Felix Gonzalez Jr. | DVD Review | Fresh | — | 2007-07-10T17:46:53.000Z | 2007-07-10 17:46:53 | If you like your nightmares served upfront without the clutter of dramatic structure, then Silent Hill should be your next stop. |
| 246028 | Anton Bitel | Film4 | Fresh | — | 2007-06-15T07:20:05.000Z | 2007-06-15 07:20:05 | although it is rarely if ever jump-out-of-your-seat scary, Silent Hill is an unremittingly creepy municipality of the mind where motherhood, mystery and madness have come home to stay. |
| 246029 | Brian Tallerico | UGO | Fresh | — | 2007-03-24T11:10:17.000Z | 2007-03-24 11:10:17 | Silent Hill starts out at point A and then goes so quickly, loudly and visually over-the-top that it flies completely off the rails into its own glorious weirdness. |
| 246030 | Jeffrey M. Anderson | Combustible Celluloid | Rotten | 2.5/4 | 2006-09-08T14:13:28.000Z | 2006-09-08 14:13:28 | Director Christophe Gans charges, hell-bent, right over the plot and winds up with not much more than an oppressive 125-minute running time. |
| 246031 | Paul Byrnes | Sydney Morning Herald | Rotten | 2/5 | 2006-08-25T03:15:47.000Z | 2006-08-25 03:15:47 | More deadly than silent. |
| 246032 | Urban Cinefile Critics | Urban Cinefile | Rotten | — | 2006-08-25T00:31:19.000Z | 2006-08-25 00:31:19 | Over long with a muddled story and a gaggle of wasted talent, Silent Hill is a spectacular misfire. |
| 246033 | Keith Breese | Filmcritic.com | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2006-08-21T10:12:08.000Z | 2006-08-21 10:12:08 | the closest you'll get to actually having a nightmare in a movie theatre outside of a midnight screening of David Lynch's Eraserhead. |
| 246034 | Jason Zingale | Bullz-Eye.com | Rotten | 0.5/5 | 2006-08-19T03:16:13.000Z | 2006-08-19 03:16:13 | There's absolutely nothing of merit here to discuss other than its loyalty to the original source material. |
| 246035 | Ethan Alter | Film Journal International | Rotten | — | 2006-07-13T15:11:41.000Z | 2006-07-13 15:11:41 | While Gans admittedly shows us some pretty spooky stuff, his energy begins to flag somewhere around the 60-minute mark. |
| 246036 | Phillip Stephens | Pajiba | Rotten | — | 2006-07-01T03:16:08.000Z | 2006-07-01 03:16:08 | To be sure, the images of roiling demons, faceless, knife-wielding homunculi and gallons of blood will haunt a viewer's dreams for many a week to come, but that's the only impression Silent Hill is likely to leave. |
| 246037 | Daniel Kasman | d+kaz. intelligent movie reviews | Rotten | D | 2006-05-20T03:15:56.000Z | 2006-05-20 03:15:56 | — |
| 246038 | Mark Pfeiffer | Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema | Rotten | C+ | 2006-05-13T07:22:51.000Z | 2006-05-13 07:22:51 | As a nightmarish vision of hell on earth, Silent Hill is a triumph of production and art design. As a coherent story, it's little more than a string of video game scenarios. |
| 246039 | James Kendrick | Q Network Film Desk | Rotten | 2/5 | 2006-05-13T03:16:02.000Z | 2006-05-13 03:16:02 | Silent Hill is like an endurance test to get to the "'truth', but it's ultimately a gyp because it still doesn't make sense when you get there. |
| 246040 | Karina Montgomery | Cinerina | Fresh | 2.5/5 | 2006-05-11T17:17:39.000Z | 2006-05-11 17:17:39 | Just like the game, which is an achievement and a disappointment all in one. |
| 246041 | Jackie K. Cooper | jackiekcooper.com | Rotten | 3/10 | 2006-05-07T15:17:23.000Z | 2006-05-07 15:17:23 | No thrills on this hill |
| 246045 | Marc Savlov | Austin Chronicle | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2006-05-06T03:15:48.000Z | 2006-05-06 03:15:48 | Sweet dreams are most assuredly not made of this, but then again, it's nice to see Uwe Boll clotheslined out of the video game-adaptation running for a while by such a smooth creeper. |
| 246044 | Nigel Floyd | Time Out | Rotten | — | 2006-05-06T03:15:48.000Z | 2006-05-06 03:15:48 | French director Christophe Gans's adaptation of the Silent Hill computer game is visually inspired and thematically ambitious, yet ultimately uninvolving. |
| 246043 | Peter Bradshaw | Guardian | Rotten | 1/5 | 2006-05-06T03:15:48.000Z | 2006-05-06 03:15:48 | Maybe it's the kudos acquired by screenwriter Roger Avary in his association with Quentin Tarantino that has allowed him to write this unbelievably boring horror-thriller. |
| 246042 | David N. Butterworth | rec.arts.movies.reviews | Fresh | 2.5/4 | 2006-05-06T03:15:48.000Z | 2006-05-06 03:15:48 | Radha Mitchell is the reason to sit through this overblown Grand Guignol entertainment from the director of the similarly overblown "Brotherhood of the Wolf." |
| 246048 | Paul Arendt | BBC.com | Rotten | 2/5 | 2006-05-06T03:15:47.000Z | 2006-05-06 03:15:47 | Silent Hill? Nonsenseville, more like. |
| 246047 | Mel Valentin | Movie-Vault.com | Fresh | 6/10 | 2006-05-06T03:15:47.000Z | 2006-05-06 03:15:47 | — |
| 246046 | Jeff Vice | Deseret News (Salt Lake City) | Rotten | 1/4 | 2006-05-06T03:15:47.000Z | 2006-05-06 03:15:47 | The truly scary thing about Silent Hill is that it's 127 minutes long, which means it's a good 20 to 30 minutes longer than most of the other similarly awful films inspired by video games. |
| 246049 | Alex Sandell | Juicy Cerebellum | Fresh | 8/10 | 2006-05-05T02:21:33.000Z | 2006-05-05 02:21:33 | No matter how you interpret the film, it's nearly impossible to deny what a beautiful work of art it is. |
| 246050 | John Beifuss | Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) | Fresh | 2.5/4 | 2006-05-03T15:14:28.000Z | 2006-05-03 15:14:28 | Suggests the surreal, almost post-narrative horror movies of Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci and other directors who favor the emotional impact of bold, grotesque imagery over story logic. |
| 246051 | Bill Gallo | Village Voice | Rotten | — | 2006-05-02T11:53:09.000Z | 2006-05-02 11:53:09 | 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. |
| 246052 | Eric Lurio | Greenwich Village Gazette | Fresh | 3/5 | 2006-05-01T15:53:03.000Z | 2006-05-01 15:53:03 | If you like horror flicks, you'll like this one.... |
| 246053 | Linda Cook | Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) | Rotten | 2.5/4 | 2006-05-01T10:06:34.000Z | 2006-05-01 10:06:34 | "Silent Hill" isn't worth clamoring about. |
| 246054 | Luke Y. Thompson | LYTRules.com | Fresh | — | 2006-04-29T01:08:51.000Z | 2006-04-29 01:08:51 | SILENT HILL leaves a lot up to you to figure out, but gamers used to conventions like phasing in and out of alternate worlds should have no problem going along for the ride. Middle-aged critics are another story. |
| 246055 | Audrey Rock-Richardson | Tooele Transcript-Bulletin (Utah) | Rotten | C | 2006-04-28T07:13:40.000Z | 2006-04-28 07:13:40 | A video game alone is not sufficient source material for a whole movie. |
| 246056 | Mark Palermo | The Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) | Rotten | — | 2006-04-27T16:38:10.000Z | 2006-04-27 16:38:10 | Without gristle on it, and disturbance behind it, there's little to invest in. |
| 246057 | Scott Tobias | AV Club | Rotten | C- | 2006-04-27T08:09:23.000Z | 2006-04-27 08:09:23 | 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 |
| 246058 | Andy Klein | Los Angeles CityBeat | Rotten | — | 2006-04-27T02:04:02.000Z | 2006-04-27 02:04:02 | Not scary, not interesting, not much of anything except visually stylish. |
| 246059 | Ken Hanke | Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2006-04-26T10:53:49.000Z | 2006-04-26 10:53:49 | It's refreshing to see a full-blown, straight-faced, supernatural horror movie in this age of grubby torture flicks being mistaken for the coin of the realm. |
| 246060 | Owen Gleiberman | Entertainment Weekly | Rotten | D+ | 2006-04-26T10:42:13.000Z | 2006-04-26 10:42:13 | Silent Hill is mostly paralyzing in its vagueness. |
| 246061 | Nathan Lee | New York Times | Rotten | 1/5 | 2006-04-25T12:16:40.000Z | 2006-04-25 12:16:40 | Structured around a series of blackouts and gross-outs, Silent Hill is one long free fall through icky surrealism and underlighted nightmares. |
| 246062 | Susan Granger | Modamag.com | Rotten | 2/10 | 2006-04-25T11:40:55.000Z | 2006-04-25 11:40:55 | 'A lot of what gets called entertainment today is actually dumpster-diving for the mind' applies to this incomprehensible, incoherent supernatural thriller. |
| 246063 | Jeffrey Chen | Window to the Movies | Rotten | 5/10 | 2006-04-24T17:58:12.000Z | 2006-04-24 17:58:12 | This is an average movie, and not what Slient Hill, a standout, resonant game series, deserves. |
| 246064 | Brian Mckay | eFilmCritic.com | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2006-04-24T17:29:36.000Z | 2006-04-24 17:29:36 | the filmmakers may be hedging too many bets, trying to make the film both acceptable to fans and accessible to newcomers. But while SILENT HILL is far from perfect, it is at the very least a valiant effort |
| 246065 | Shlomo Schwartzberg | Boxoffice Magazine | Rotten | 0/5 | 2006-04-24T13:36:39.000Z | 2006-04-24 13:36:39 | Absolutely atrocious, Silent Hill is probably the worst movie ever to be based on a video game. |
| 246066 | Chris Hewitt | St. Paul Pioneer Press | Rotten | 2/4 | 2006-04-24T13:30:24.000Z | 2006-04-24 13:30:24 | The story is so unoriginal and uninvolving that you may find yourselves wishing the drippy, howling, viscera-smeared creatures would take Mitchell and the other humans out. |
| 246067 | Don R. Lewis | Film Threat | Rotten | 2/5 | 2006-04-24T13:25:25.000Z | 2006-04-24 13:25:25 | As I sat through this two hour stumble through what looked like fog, I just kept thinking to myself how this might be the best looking bad film I've ever seen. |
| 246068 | Lou Lumenick | New York Post | Rotten | 1/4 | 2006-04-24T13:22:29.000Z | 2006-04-24 13:22:29 | A great-looking but stupefyingly incoherent supernatural thriller, |
| 246069 | Jason Anderson | Globe and Mail | Rotten | 1.5/4 | 2006-04-24T13:14:35.000Z | 2006-04-24 13:14:35 | Though Silent Hill's shoddy dialogue and incoherent story constantly irritate, several sights and scenes possess a certain surreal grandeur. |
| 246070 | Pam Grady | Reel.com | Rotten | 1/4 | 2006-04-24T13:11:09.000Z | 2006-04-24 13:11:09 | A mundane car wreck with a few promising scenes that lead absolutely nowhere. |
| 246071 | James Berardinelli | ReelViews | Rotten | 2.5/4 | 2006-04-24T13:09:56.000Z | 2006-04-24 13:09:56 | The film is overlong, with too many unnecessary scenes (a lot of the movie seems like pointless running around), but it packs in a few scary moments and offers a nicely ambiguous conclusion. |
| 246072 | Chris Vognar | Dallas Morning News | Rotten | C- | 2006-04-24T13:08:04.000Z | 2006-04-24 13:08:04 | Too long by about a half hour, very much in love with its own excessive style, it still manages to be kinda creepy, at least when it stops taking its metaphysics too seriously. |
| 246073 | Wesley Morris | Boston Globe | Rotten | 0.5/4 | 2006-04-24T13:04:05.000Z | 2006-04-24 13:04:05 | The makers of the movie you're slogging through will spare no expense to demonstrate how much they hate us. |
| 246074 | Mark Ramsey | MovieJuice! | Rotten | C- | 2006-04-24T12:39:23.000Z | 2006-04-24 12:39:23 | Somehow the knowledge that you are three degrees of separation from Dabney Coleman and a computer called W.O.P.R. transforms trite claptrap into the words of the Bard himself. |
| 246075 | Nicolas Lacroix | EnPrimeur.ca | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2006-04-24T09:39:33.000Z | 2006-04-24 09:39:33 | Les images tordues du film sont impossible oublier... |
| 246076 | Cynthia Fuchs | PopMatters | Rotten | — | 2006-04-23T17:26:48.000Z | 2006-04-23 17:26:48 | Some of these scary figures march in jaunty-out-of-joint step as if they've emerged from "Thriller" (if only Vincent Price might have provided voiceover explanations). |
| 246077 | Eric D. Snider | EricDSnider.com | Rotten | C- | 2006-04-23T15:03:02.000Z | 2006-04-23 15:03:02 | I would admire the atmosphere a lot more if it amounted to something scary, creepy or original. |
| 246078 | Andrea Chase | Killer Movie Reviews | Rotten | 0/5 | 2006-04-22T20:56:04.000Z | 2006-04-22 20:56:04 | about as terrifying as several pages of single-spaced programming code. Granted, that sort of thing can be daunting, but scary, not so much. |
| 246079 | Mark Collette | Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas) | Rotten | 2/4 | 2006-04-22T16:04:13.000Z | 2006-04-22 16:04:13 | Striking visuals tell a story where words aren't necessary ... until that turning point, when dull dialogue, a complicated plot and cheesy graphics start to muddle things. |
| 246080 | Victoria Alexander | Movie Reviews in Croatian | Fresh | — | 2006-04-22T12:56:11.000Z | 2006-04-22 12:56:11 | It's based on a video game not Shakespeare. Enough said. Either stay away due to its provenance or enjoy, as I did. |
| 246081 | Dustin Putman | TheFilmFile.com | Rotten | 2/4 | 2006-04-22T04:32:02.000Z | 2006-04-22 04:32:02 | Silent Hill is not for lacking memorably nightmarish imagery, but the picture tries one's patience far more often than it unnerves it. |
| 246082 | Kevin A. Ranson | MovieCrypt.com | Fresh | 4.0/4.0 | 2006-04-22T00:00:13.000Z | 2006-04-22 00:00:13 | Lessons learned: Never underestimate the creativity of a wronged West Virginian with access to barbed wire. |
| 246083 | Rafe Telsch | CinemaBlend | Rotten | 2/5 | 2006-04-21T22:09:01.000Z | 2006-04-21 22:09:01 | No matter how visually impressive Silent Hill may be, the incredibly weak story makes it a horrible film. |
| 246084 | Scott Weinberg | Cinematical | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2006-04-21T21:00:32.000Z | 2006-04-21 21:00:32 | Not much more than a "haunted town" thrill-ride, with only a few plot points tossed in to keep things moving, Silent Hill truly is a feast for the eyes -- provided your eyeballs aren't too squeamish. |
| 246085 | E! Staff | E! Online | Fresh | B | 2006-04-21T19:01:28.000Z | 2006-04-21 19:01:28 | Silent Hill is groundbreaking, at least in being the first such film of any cinematic merit whatsoever. |
| 246086 | Ernest Hardy | L.A. Weekly | Rotten | — | 2006-04-21T18:52:39.000Z | 2006-04-21 18:52:39 | Sharon vanishes and Rose sets about finding her daughter in the not-quite deserted town, where ash falls from the sky and every setting looks like a back-lot or soundstage. |
| 246087 | Nick Schager | Slant Magazine | Fresh | 2.5/4 | 2006-04-21T18:50:56.000Z | 2006-04-21 18:50:56 | Despite its often-overwhelming nonsensicality, there's ultimately something irresistibly fiendish about Silent Hill. |
| 246088 | Elizabeth Weitzman | New York Daily News | Rotten | 1/4 | 2006-04-21T18:50:29.000Z | 2006-04-21 18:50:29 | Christophe Gans' convoluted, overlong adaptation of the video game Silent Hill is the worst kind of horror movie: trash that takes itself seriously. |
| 246089 | Sara Michelle Fetters | MovieFreak.com | Rotten | 2/4 | 2006-04-21T17:29:11.000Z | 2006-04-21 17:29:11 | I haven't the first clue, and I'm pretty sure neither do the filmmakers because, if they did, you'd think they'd have realized early on the meat and bones of their adventure were made out of nothing but burning ashes. |
| 246090 | Christopher Smith | Bangor Daily News (Maine) | Rotten | C- | 2006-04-21T17:19:00.000Z | 2006-04-21 17:19:00 | The literary equivalent of Java script. |
| 246091 | Daniel Fienberg | Zap2it.com | Rotten | 1.5/4 | 2006-04-21T16:16:22.000Z | 2006-04-21 16:16:22 | Had Silent Hill been directed by Peter Jackson, perhaps there would have been an explanation or justification for its 127-minute length. But Christophe Gans? Seriously? |
| 246092 | Maitland McDonagh | TV Guide | Rotten | 2/4 | 2006-04-21T16:01:21.000Z | 2006-04-21 16:01:21 | [Silent Hill] starts out a suffocating fog of creepiness wrapped around a memorably malevolent child spirit, but squanders its meticulously established atmosphere on a lengthy climactic sequence. |
| 246093 | Jan Stuart | Newsday | Rotten | 2/4 | 2006-04-21T15:53:32.000Z | 2006-04-21 15:53:32 | [Silent Hill] works up a decent amount of solid, creep-show atmosphere in its first act before making some absurd decisions of its own in its second. |
| 246094 | Steve Tilley | Jam! Movies | Rotten | 2/5 | 2006-04-21T15:50:50.000Z | 2006-04-21 15:50:50 | Silent Hill starts out promisingly -- atmospheric and creepy -- but degenerates into a muddle of nonsensical plotting, dull characters and unintentional hilarity. |
| 246095 | Christy Lemire | Associated Press | Rotten | — | 2006-04-21T15:43:42.000Z | 2006-04-21 15:43:42 | Let's start with the running time for Silent Hill: two hours and five minutes. Totally out of control. |
| 246096 | Roger Ebert | Chicago Sun-Times | Rotten | 1.5/4 | 2006-04-21T15:43:10.000Z | 2006-04-21 15:43:10 | Not only can I not describe the plot of this movie, but I have a feeling the last scene reverses half of what I thought I knew (or didn't know). |
| 246097 | Dennis Harvey | Variety | Rotten | — | 2006-04-21T15:30:56.000Z | 2006-04-21 15:30:56 | In the end, Silent Hill degenerates into an overblown replay of all those Twilight Zone and Stephen King stories in which outsiders stumble upon a time-warped location from which there's no escape. |
| 246098 | James Dyer | Empire Magazine | Fresh | 3/5 | 2006-04-21T15:20:20.000Z | 2006-04-21 15:20:20 | Silent Hill renders the look and feel of the game with perfect clarity... But it's this unwavering fidelity to the source material that is also the film's biggest problem. |
| 246099 | Ray Bennett | The Hollywood Reporter | Rotten | — | 2006-04-21T15:19:09.000Z | 2006-04-21 15:19:09 | Witless, soulless and joyless. |
| 246100 | Frank Swietek | One Guy's Opinion | Rotten | F | 2006-04-21T15:03:58.000Z | 2006-04-21 15:03:58 | Easily one of the most boring, incoherent and overproduced movies ever made. And at two full hours, it's far too much of a bad thing. |
| 246101 | Jeff Otto | IGN Movies | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2006-04-21T14:44:26.000Z | 2006-04-21 14:44:26 | Beautiful on the outside, but empty within. |
| 246102 | Andrew Wright | The Stranger (Seattle, WA) | Fresh | — | 2006-04-21T14:40:41.000Z | 2006-04-21 14:40:41 | [The] first frigged-up, terrifyingly nonsensical hour ... generates a wealth of shivery imagery that I won't be able to soon forget. But, Lord, I think I may want to. |
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