What kind of movie is silent hill

Also sharing their space are rat-like little CGI insects, who scurry around thinking they look a lot scarier than they do. Rose has come here with her daughter Sharon because the girl has taken to sleep-walking at night, and standing on the edge of high cliffs while saying "Silent Hill" in her sleep.

Obviously the correct treatment is to take her to the abandoned town itself. Rose and Sharon race off in the night, pursued by Rose's husband Sean Bean and a motorcycle cop Laurie Holden who is dressed like a leather mistress. The usual zombie-like little girl turns up in the headlights, there is a crash, and then everybody wanders through the town for two hours while the art direction looks great. I especially liked the snake-like wires at the end which held people suspended in mid-air. I also liked it when Johnny Cash sang "Ring of Fire" on the sound track, since if there was ever a movie in need of a song about a ring of fire, this is that film.

Now here's a funny thing. Although I did not understand the story, I would have appreciated a great deal less explanation.

All through the movie, characters are pausing in order to offer arcane back-stories and historical perspectives and metaphysical insights and occult orientations. They talk and talk and somehow their words do not light up any synapses in my brain, if my brain has synapses and they're supposed to light up, and if it doesn't and they're not, then they still don't make any sense. Perhaps those who have played the game will understand the movie, and enjoy it.

Speaking of synapses, another member of that panel discussion at Boulder was Dr. Shlain made the most interesting comment on the panel. He said they took some four and five year-olds and gave them video games and asked them to figure out how to play them without instructions.

Then they watched their brain activity with real-time monitors. But by the time they knew how to play the games, the brain went dark, except for one little point. My damn brain lit up too much. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from until his death in In , he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism.

Rated R for strong horror violence and gore, disturbing images and some language. Following the death of the hotly anticipated Silent Hills , however, fans were left with nowhere to turn — often looking to the movies to get their fix of psychological horror. Regardless, Shutter Island was a huge success — both financially and critically — and really seemed to strike a chord with fans of psychological horror. The movie follows a trio of journalists who investigate a rash of disappearances around the fictional town of Alvania, only to find themselves at the mercy of a relentless cult of masked killers.

One of the most highly praised Stephen King adaptations around, The Mist is infamous for its bleak slant on the source material, containing one of the most shocking endings in all of horror fiction. The story centers around the patrons of a supermarket, who become trapped when the store is surrounded by a thick, deadly mist.

Dripping with atmosphere and an intense sense of dread, the movie follows two girls who are forced to stay at their boarding school when their parents fail to pick them up for winter break. Although the two of them cannot see each other, at one point they walk through the same area at the same time, and Christopher believes he feels Rose's presence, even smelling her perfume.

However, Gucci doesn't believe him, shrugging off the sight of a school door opening and closing by itself as Rose passes through it in the alternate reality. Chris and Gucci ultimately leave the town empty handed.

Rose collapses in tears, believing she can't go on. As she is about to be overrun with Creepers , Cybil arrives and saves her, having been dragged into the Otherworld along with Rose. Trapped inside a storeroom, the two of them are attacked by Red Pyramid , resulting in a hectic fight for their lives.

While dodging the Great Knife , Cybil fires at the monster's arm as he yanks at a metal bar barricading the door. Just as the monster is about to break into the room, he ceases his attack and the school shifts back into the Fog World.

Meanwhile, Christopher has ignored Gucci's orders for him to go home, and has broken into the Toluca County Archives in a desperate search for any information that could help him in his search. He discovers documents showing the town was abandoned after a terrible fire 30 years prior, along with a photo of Dahlia's daughter, who bears a remarkable resemblance to Sharon. Christopher is apprehended by Officer Gucci when he tries to question the founder of the orphanage from which Sharon was adopted, Sister Margaret.

Chris is told to stop investigating Silent Hill or risk being arrested. In exasperation, he finally relents and heads home. Searching the building, they visit Room and discover a secret passage to a sacrificial chamber , where Rose encounters a little girl who resembles Sharon, albeit much darker: Dark Alessa.

After Dark Alessa bursts into flames, another siren blares out and warns of another impending shift to the Otherworld. Anna implores Rose and Cybil to follow her to the local church , where she believes they will be safe. On the way there, the Otherworld begins to consume the church grounds.

A flock of churchgoers flees to the church. Dahlia, on the steps of the church, warns Rose and Cybil not to go with them because they are "deceiving wolves in the skins of sheep". Rose confronts Dahlia, demanding to know why Sharon is identical to Alessa and if Alessa is dead. Dahlia cryptically tells her "Evil wakes in vengeance, be careful what you choose.

Rose and Cybil find refuge in the church, which is spared from being transformed by the Otherworld, where they discover the remaining townspeople; a religious cult , led by a woman named Christabella.

Christabella tells them that a "demon" controls the town and that Rose must face the "darkness of hell" if she wants to find her daughter. After convincing Christabella that she wants to find the "demon" for answers, Rose is taken to Brookhaven Hospital with Cybil.

There, Christabella discovers the likeness between Sharon and Alessa from Rose's locket and condemns Rose and Cybil as witches. Cybil is captured as she defends Rose, who escapes the clutches of the cult and descends in an elevator into the basement of the Otherworld hospital. After a close encounter with monstrous Dark Nurses , Rose finds a badly burned adult Alessa lying in a hospital bed, unable to walk or speak. Meanwhile, a nurse in red hospital robes is crying and covering her face.

Dark Alessa appears and explains why Alessa is like this. Rose learns that Dark Alessa is the manifestation of the dark side of Alessa's soul. Dark Alessa tells Rose the truth because she feels that she deserves it: Dark Alessa was the one who led all of the clues throughout the town in order to test Rose's love for Sharon and see if Rose is a worthy mother to be her new mother.

In a flashback, Rose discovers that Silent Hill had a history of ritual witch burnings. Alessa herself was condemned as a witch for not having a father.

Christabella convinced and tricked Dahlia into letting her cult "purify" Alessa. However, the attempt to burn her 30 years ago went disastrously awry, resulting in a devastating fire destroying the town. In her pain and hatred, Alessa began manifesting psionic powers and ended up creating Dark Alessa and the Otherworld. Since then, she has been shifting reality to the hellish nightmare world in order to hunt down the cult members who hurt her all those years ago.

Rose is told that Sharon is the manifestation of Alessa's remaining innocence and goodness, and was taken to the orphanage by Dark Alessa, where she was later adopted by Rose and Christopher.

Dark Alessa warns Rose that Christabella knows where Sharon is hiding due to her knowledge of Sharon's link to Dahlia, and that she's already making plans to burn her, just as she did to Alessa. This proves true when Christabella arrives at Dahlia's apartment and kidnaps Sharon.

After realizing what she needs to do, Rose agrees to help Alessa gain her final revenge to save her daughter. After explaining that the church's protection from the Otherworld prevents her from getting inside, Dark Alessa then makes Rose absorb her so that she can enter the church. After this, the nurse is seen sitting in the back of the ward, still crying. She uncovers her face to reveal that she has been crying blood, a result of Alessa's psychic attack on her 30 years earlier.

Rose enters the church soon after Cybil has been burned to death by the townspeople and sees Sharon is about to suffer a similar fate. She confronts the townspeople and Christabella with her new knowledge of the truth, attempting to convince the cult that they are in denial of their own fate. Christabella stabs Rose in anger, claiming that Rose has been corrupted and is an agent of the "demon". Rose's wounds cause her blood to drip onto the church floor, releasing Alessa's tainted essence and opening a portal into the Otherworld.

Dark Alessa and Alessa's adult form rise out of the portal, and proceed to kill Christabella and the townspeople with long tangles of barbed wire, leaving Dahlia, Rose, and Sharon as the only survivors.