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Movie ID: 1189
RT slug: silent_hill_revelation
RT URL: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/silent_hill_revelation
Release year: 2012
Runtime: 95 mins
Wide release date: 2012-10-26
Limited release date: —
Festival premiere date: —
Streaming release date: 2016-05-23
Tomatometer final: 8%
Audience score final: 35%
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Directors: MJ Bassett
Writers: MJ Bassett
Producers: Don Carmody, Samuel Hadida
MPAA rating: R
Executive Producers: —
Created: 2026-08-19 20:52:16
Updated: 2026-08-19 20:52:16
For many years, Heather Mason (Adelaide Clemens) and her father, Harry (Sean Bean), have been on the run from dangerous forces she does not understand. Heather continues to be plagued by terrifying nightmares and frightened by her father's disappearance, and on the eve of her 18th birthday, she discovers that she is not who she thinks she is. The revelation leads her deep into the demonic world of Silent Hill, where she may become trapped forever.
Mediocre effort even by the standards of video game adaptations, Silent Hill: Revelation 3D features weak characters and an incomprehensible plot with a shortage of scares.
Canonical reviews: 62
Canonical fresh: 5
Canonical rotten: 57
Canonical calculated Tomatometer: 8%
Latest snapshot UTC: 2026-08-19 18:53:23
Snapshot Tomatometer: 8%
Snapshot review count: 62
Snapshot fresh count: 5
Snapshot rotten count: 57
Source note: Imported from manual review paste batch #2888 (full_snapshot)
| Company | Role |
|---|---|
| Open Road | distributor |
| Davis Films | production |
| E1 Entertainment | production |
| Konami | production |
| Open Road Films | production |
| Silent Hill 2 DCP | production |
| Billing | Name | Character |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adelaide Clemens | Heather Mason |
| 2 | Kit Harington | Vincent |
| 3 | Deborah Kara Unger | Dahlia Gillespie |
| 4 | Martin Donovan | Douglas Cartland |
| 5 | Malcolm McDowell | Leonard Wolf |
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| ID | Critic | Outlet | Fresh? | Score | RT Time Raw | Approx Published UTC | Quote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 246115 | Sarah Vincent | Sarah G Vincent Views | Rotten | — | 2026-01-23T10:52:21.000Z | 2026-01-23 10:52:21 | Maybe gamers see the beauty in this one, but for the rest of us, don’t waste your time on this one. |
| 246116 | Mike Massie | Gone With The Twins | Rotten | 3/10 | 2025-09-25T07:41:59.000Z | 2025-09-25 07:41:59 | For anyone who is not already familiar with the Silent Hill franchise, this follow-up will surely pose a comparable inscrutableness to its theatrical predecessor. |
| 246117 | Grant Watson | Fiction Machine | Rotten | 3/10 | 2025-02-13T06:25:06.000Z | 2025-02-13 06:25:06 | If you are a horror film and you are not even remotely creepy, then you have essentially failed the most basic requirement for being one. |
| 246118 | Patrick Cavanaugh | The Wolfman Cometh | Rotten | 2/5 | 2023-09-20T20:47:11.000Z | 2023-09-20 20:47:11 | Somehow manages to avoid delivering much of what made either the first movie or the original video game series appealing, with its confounding narrative feeling entirely accidental as opposed to intentionally mysterious. |
| 246119 | Brian D. Johnson | Maclean's Magazine | Fresh | — | 2019-07-31T21:21:49.000Z | 2019-07-31 21:21:49 | I was impressed by the film's production values and visual panache. Between the Rembrandt burnish of the cinematography and the antique-store detail of the design, ugliness has never looked so pretty. |
| 246120 | Johnny Gayzmonic | Fanboys of the Universe | Fresh | 7/10 | 2018-11-02T17:04:51.000Z | 2018-11-02 17:04:51 | A mesmerizing display of human grotesquerie like Hieronymous Bosch filtered through Clive Barker, and that's exactly how it should be. |
| 246121 | Daniel Cairns | SciFiNow | Fresh | 3/5 | 2017-09-19T20:51:39.000Z | 2017-09-19 20:51:39 | It's one of the better videogame adaptations, up there with the original Silent Hill and, eh, Doom? |
| 246122 | Sebastian Zavala Kahn | Más Gamers | Rotten | 0.5/4 | 2017-08-28T19:57:53.000Z | 2017-08-28 19:57:53 | An incoherent and disappointing sequel made exclusively for gaming fans. |
| 246123 | Richard Haridy | Quickflix | Rotten | 1/5 | 2013-11-25T20:42:44.000Z | 2013-11-25 20:42:44 | It manages to not only contort itself into a form that is simultaneously convoluted and stupid but it also skilfully avoids any audience engagement despite a tumultuous whirl of spectacle and noise. |
| 246124 | Evan Dickson | Bloody Disgusting | Rotten | 4/10 | 2013-08-30T07:52:47.000Z | 2013-08-30 07:52:47 | I wasn't angry with it for wasting my time, just perplexed that this collection of creative choices actually exists as a film. |
| 246125 | Jason Best | Movie Talk | Rotten | — | 2013-03-19T04:29:06.000Z | 2013-03-19 04:29:06 | The demon-haunted West Virginia town still gives the creeps... but this belated sequel proves to be only fitfully exciting and scary - mostly because the action stops every few minutes for yet another character to deliver reams of boring exposition. |
| 246126 | Ashley Norris | HeyUGuys | Rotten | 1/5 | 2013-02-19T18:40:54.000Z | 2013-02-19 18:40:54 | There has to be someone out there who can make a successful video-game adaptation because faith is being lost year after year and Silent Hill: Revelation does nothing for the many unwavering believers. |
| 246127 | Steve Newton | Georgia Straight | Rotten | — | 2013-02-15T17:35:46.000Z | 2013-02-15 17:35:46 | .5/5 Just how terrible is SH3D? Well, at one point, writer-director Michael J. Bassett actually tries to scare you with a Kellogg's Frosted Pop-Tart. No kidding. |
| 246128 | Linda Cook | KWQC-TV (Iowa) | Rotten | — | 2012-11-20T20:49:56.000Z | 2012-11-20 20:49:56 | .5/4 I can't imagine anyone who hasn't played the video game who would give a shout-out to the 'Silent Hill' sequel. |
| 246129 | Paul Chambers | Movie Chambers | Rotten | F | 2012-11-11T13:40:27.000Z | 2012-11-11 13:40:27 | It's like going through a cheesy house of horrors at the local carnival. You want it to end, but not because it's scary. |
| 246130 | Jordan Farley | SFX Magazine | Rotten | 2/5 | 2012-11-09T08:57:20.000Z | 2012-11-09 08:57:20 | It's in too much of a rush, and tries to cram in so much plot that unless you're familiar with the game it's closely adapted from, chances are it will leave you baffled. |
| 246131 | Graham Young | Birmingham Post | Rotten | 1/5 | 2012-11-07T10:57:13.000Z | 2012-11-07 10:57:13 | With Bean unable to save the unsavable, we're left with waves of hard-working special effects trying to torture Heather instead of being able to enjoy a top star on form. |
| 246132 | Alistair Harkness | Scotsman | Rotten | 1/5 | 2012-11-04T16:26:51.000Z | 2012-11-04 16:26:51 | Can't even offer up the flashy production design that aficionados of the game liked about the Christophe Gans-directed original. |
| 246133 | Shaun Munro | What Culture | Rotten | 1.5/5 | 2012-11-02T14:23:58.000Z | 2012-11-02 14:23:58 | A sacrilegious adaptation of an excellent video game, Silent Hill: Revelation will infuriate gamers, and just confuse everyone else. |
| 246134 | Tara Brady | Irish Times | Rotten | 2/5 | 2012-11-02T12:52:50.000Z | 2012-11-02 12:52:50 | "Come to Silent Hill" reads a "scary" message left for teen damsel Heather. Hell, no. |
| 246135 | Marc Savlov | Austin Chronicle | Rotten | 0/5 | 2012-11-02T10:54:27.000Z | 2012-11-02 10:54:27 | I realize it's called Silent Hill for a reason, but enduring this botched (video game-based) nightmare is like sleepwalking into the world's dullest Halloween party. |
| 246136 | Allan Hunter | Daily Express (UK) | Rotten | 1/5 | 2012-11-01T18:20:27.000Z | 2012-11-01 18:20:27 | The random, hectic storyline has little rhyme or reason, the unimaginative 3D feels like a rip-off and only Clemens seems to be taking this seriously. |
| 246137 | Murray Robertson | The List | Rotten | 2/5 | 2012-11-01T12:11:47.000Z | 2012-11-01 12:11:47 | The only solace is that there is no direct threat of a sequel. |
| 246138 | Brett Michel | Boston Phoenix | Rotten | 1/4 | 2012-10-31T20:19:11.000Z | 2012-10-31 20:19:11 | More of the same, on a cut-rate budget, without Gans's atmospheric reverie. |
| 246139 | Kristian Harloff | Schmoes Know | Rotten | 1/5 | 2012-10-31T17:22:33.000Z | 2012-10-31 17:22:33 | This mess makes no sense and plods along for 90 minutes throwing things at us that are neither scary nor contributing to the tale. |
| 246140 | Mark Ellis | Schmoes Know | Rotten | 1/5 | 2012-10-31T17:15:55.000Z | 2012-10-31 17:15:55 | I would rather go to Hell than sit through that movie again. |
| 246141 | Jackie K. Cooper | jackiekcooper.com | Rotten | 4/10 | 2012-10-31T11:41:14.000Z | 2012-10-31 11:41:14 | Another horror franchise that needs to be terminated. |
| 246142 | Jennifer Tate | ViewLondon | Rotten | 2/5 | 2012-10-31T11:27:37.000Z | 2012-10-31 11:27:37 | Part disturbing, part daft, thanks to an incredibly poor script (which makes no sense whatsoever) and some patchy performances, but the sequel's striking cinematography can't be knocked. |
| 246143 | Susan Granger | SSG Syndicate | Rotten | 3/10 | 2012-10-29T13:29:09.000Z | 2012-10-29 13:29:09 | Incomprehensible, ridiculously humorless horror fantasy. |
| 246144 | Jay Stone | National Post | Rotten | — | 2012-10-29T10:16:20.000Z | 2012-10-29 10:16:20 | Silent Hill: Revelation 3D is a sequel to the slightly less-mad horror film Silent Hill, both of them based on a video game. This makes it a rare triple-header of indications that this is not a film for the more mature moviegoer. |
| 246145 | Mark Ramsey | MovieJuice! | Rotten | F | 2012-10-29T05:35:59.000Z | 2012-10-29 05:35:59 | Radha Mitchell visits Sean Bean in a mirror cameo. 'Do I look fat in this mirror?' Radha asked. 'I wouldn't know,' quipped Sean. 'This movie isn't reflecting well on anybody.' |
| 246146 | Ben Kendrick | Screen Rant | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2012-10-28T22:48:42.000Z | 2012-10-28 22:48:42 | Silent Hill: Revelation 3D is a mixed bag of creepy and downright captivating visual set-pieces coupled with melodramatic dialogue and an overly-complicated storyline. |
| 246147 | Rafer Guzman | Newsday | Rotten | — | 2012-10-28T11:30:40.000Z | 2012-10-28 11:30:40 | "Revelation" is incredibly boring as well as totally baffling. |
| 246148 | Matt Donato | We Got This Covered | Rotten | 2.5/10 | 2012-10-27T13:01:51.000Z | 2012-10-27 13:01:51 | It's a shame Silent Hill: Revelation suffers the same doomed fate as most modern horror movies, bumbling through a shockingly disconnected screenplay which strings together moments that could have been salvaged otherwise. |
| 246149 | Jeffrey M. Anderson | Common Sense Media | Rotten | 2/5 | 2012-10-27T09:11:39.000Z | 2012-10-27 09:11:39 | Unfortunately, the writing is so weak and comes up so short that all the striking imagery amounts to practically nothing. |
| 246150 | William Goss | Film.com | Rotten | — | 2012-10-26T18:03:56.000Z | 2012-10-26 18:03:56 | Demonstrates what half the budget and twice the story can do to turn a fake nightmare into a real chore. |
| 246151 | Rob Vaux | Mania.com | Rotten | D | 2012-10-26T17:44:51.000Z | 2012-10-26 17:44:51 | Set piece, set piece, exposition, set piece, boss fight, set piece, more exposition, boss fight, boss fight, open the door for another sequel, the end. |
| 246152 | Jeremy Wheeler | TV Guide | Rotten | 1.5/4 | 2012-10-26T17:44:35.000Z | 2012-10-26 17:44:35 | The good news for crummy-horror-movie fans is that there's a whole lot more fun in this one since it's dumber and shorter than the first entry. |
| 246153 | Andy Webster | New York Times | Rotten | 1.5/5 | 2012-10-26T17:41:29.000Z | 2012-10-26 17:41:29 | The distinction between actors and special effects shrinks ever further in the video game-turned-horror film Silent Hill: Revelation 3D, which reduces its human players to plastic action figures in tired genre settings. |
| 246154 | Ethan Gilsdorf | Boston Globe | Rotten | 1.5/4 | 2012-10-26T17:39:14.000Z | 2012-10-26 17:39:14 | Silent Hill: Revelation 3D quickly devolves into a smorgasbord of sutured faces and blades poking the viewer in the eye. |
| 246155 | Mark Olsen | Los Angeles Times | Rotten | 1.5/5 | 2012-10-26T17:37:11.000Z | 2012-10-26 17:37:11 | It's never a good sign when the trailers playing before a film have richer, more complete narratives than the feature you've paid to see. |
| 246156 | Chris Tilly | IGN Movies UK | Rotten | 4.5/10 | 2012-10-26T17:36:22.000Z | 2012-10-26 17:36:22 | Silent Hill Revelation 3D is an inferior sequel in every way, shape and form, a horror sequel that fails to either intrigue or scare, and one that just might have killed the franchise cold-dead. |
| 246157 | Keith Staskiewicz | Entertainment Weekly | Rotten | D+ | 2012-10-26T17:35:25.000Z | 2012-10-26 17:35:25 | An ugly, assaultive collection of jump-scares. |
| 246158 | Miriam Bale | New York Daily News | Rotten | 1/5 | 2012-10-26T17:34:39.000Z | 2012-10-26 17:34:39 | Once the 3-D special effects look dated, this head-scratcher of a movie could be ripe to become a camp classic. But for now, the humorless approach to this inane mess is embarrassing rather than hilarious. |
| 246159 | Frank Scheck | The Hollywood Reporter | Rotten | — | 2012-10-26T17:11:19.000Z | 2012-10-26 17:11:19 | Silent Hill is not a place you want to go, and that applies for moviegoers as well as this videogame adaptation's characters. |
| 246160 | Kevin Carr | Fat Guys at the Movies | Rotten | 1.5/5 | 2012-10-26T14:54:53.000Z | 2012-10-26 14:54:53 | Let's forget the fact that the demon killed everyone in the town in the first film because obviously the filmmakers did. |
| 246161 | Nathan Rabin | AV Club | Rotten | D | 2012-10-26T14:16:18.000Z | 2012-10-26 14:16:18 | It confirms once again that with the notable exception of Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, a film that feels like a videogame is never a positive development. |
| 246162 | Nick Schager | Village Voice | Rotten | — | 2012-10-26T14:15:35.000Z | 2012-10-26 14:15:35 | With horror altogether absent and a plot drowning in insipid convolutions, it's a film whose early warning to Heather should be heeded: "Don't go to Silent Hill." |
| 246163 | David Ehrlich | Boxoffice Magazine | Rotten | — | 2012-10-26T13:39:38.000Z | 2012-10-26 13:39:38 | .5/5 "Do not go to Silent Hill!" That's one of the first lines of dialogue, but by that point you've probably already realized the magnitude of your mistake. |
| 246164 | Dennis Harvey | Variety | Rotten | — | 2012-10-26T11:24:08.000Z | 2012-10-26 11:24:08 | A cheaper, cheesier sequel that's worse than its predecessor on every level (save being a half-hour shorter) and takes no special advantage of the stereoscopic process. |
| 246165 | Calum Marsh | Slant Magazine | Rotten | 1.5/4 | 2012-10-26T11:23:13.000Z | 2012-10-26 11:23:13 | Silent Hill: Revelation fundamentally misunderstands the appeal its source material. |
| 246166 | Scott Weinberg | FEARnet | Rotten | 2/5 | 2012-10-26T11:07:16.000Z | 2012-10-26 11:07:16 | Stick with the games. At least in the games you can press "skip" when confronted with nine goofball dialogue scenes in a row. |
| 246167 | Perri Nemiroff | Shockya.com | Rotten | 1.5/5 | 2012-10-26T08:41:56.000Z | 2012-10-26 08:41:56 | Nothing is praiseworthy, but with such an absurd script, even the somewhat successful elements are rendered ridiculous. |
| 246168 | Jordan Hoffman | ScreenCrush | Fresh | 6/10 | 2012-10-26T08:01:18.000Z | 2012-10-26 08:01:18 | As far as sub-literate, incomprehensible pieces of garbage are concerned, 'Silent Hill: Revelation 3D' is one of the year's best. |
| 246169 | Emanuel Levy | EmanuelLevy.Com | Rotten | C | 2012-10-26T07:04:04.000Z | 2012-10-26 07:04:04 | The biggest mystery about this quicky exploitation horror flick is not its father-daughter tale, which is structurally messy and ineptly helmed, but how it got such talented actors. |
| 246170 | Peter Howell | Toronto Star | Rotten | 2/4 | 2012-10-26T06:56:37.000Z | 2012-10-26 06:56:37 | Only true devotees of the game are likely to recognize many of the figures on the screen, or care about a byzantine story stitched together from innumerable horror and fantasy shows. |
| 246171 | Daniel M. Kimmel | Sci-Fi Movie Page | Rotten | 1.5/4 | 2012-10-26T04:30:22.000Z | 2012-10-26 04:30:22 | It's like watching a recording of someone else playing a video game. You have no control and you have nothing invested in the characters or the outcome. |
| 246172 | Dustin Putman | TheFilmFile.com | Rotten | 2/4 | 2012-10-26T04:15:32.000Z | 2012-10-26 04:15:32 | A hobbled-together mess, high on style and low on substance, while emotional potency clocks in two degrees above freezing. |
| 246173 | William Bibbiani | CraveOnline | Rotten | 1.5/10 | 2012-10-26T03:56:48.000Z | 2012-10-26 03:56:48 | Hollywood, this isn't good enough. Silent Hill deserves better. Audiences deserve better. Video games deserve better. And frankly, the film industry deserves better. |
| 246174 | Liz Braun | Jam! Movies | Rotten | 1.5/5 | 2012-10-26T03:39:52.000Z | 2012-10-26 03:39:52 | There's a bright young director behind Silent Hill: Revelation and a very strong cast to bring the story to life, but the movie is still terrible. |
| 246175 | Brian Orndorf | Blu-ray.com | Rotten | D | 2012-10-25T23:46:52.000Z | 2012-10-25 23:46:52 | Revelation has no personality to speak of, with a reduced budget and limited directorial vision turning the potential for an atmospheric terror picture into a television melodrama with occasional bursts of macabre happenings. |
| 246176 | Michelle Alexandria | Eclipse Magazine | Fresh | C+ | 2012-10-25T20:54:20.000Z | 2012-10-25 20:54:20 | This movie is highly stylized, beautifully rendered in spots, but a narrative mess. Fans of the game and previous movies should love this. Harington and Clemons are future stars. |
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