I rarely use swear words in my reviews for the sake of a family entertainment, but every once in a while a movie comes along
that warrants such sinful words. "Silent Hill," a video game-adapted horror movie, easily fits into the genuinely fucked-up genre. Whether you love it or hate it, you''ll have to admit that not only is its atmosphere consistently creepy from beginning to end, but that it is one fucked-up movie in premise and conclusion.
"Silent Hill," though I had never heard of the video game before seeing the movie, is based on the lowest of mediums, and despite some creepy trailers and a decent cast, the very fact that it was based on a video game had me nervous going into theaters. Amidst poor reviews and the slight suspicion that Christophe Gans could be an alias for Uwe Boll, I didn''t know what to expect from "Silent Hill" - would it be as weird and twisted as it looks in the previews, or would it suck to all ends of the earth?
Thankfully, it doesn''t suck, but several hours after watching the movie I don''t know whether I loved it, hated it, liked it or disliked it. Definitely not cheery, and twisted in more ways than one, I don''t know whether to congratulate Gans for delivering something that made me uneasy or hate him for just throwing one weird thing at the audience after another without any real sense of an even mildly-understandable plot. The movie is a bit confusing in that it never really explains anything about the purpose of everything, or at least not about certain things - like where the fuck did this darkness comes that has cursed every human being in the town? I get the girl''s story, but... what the fuck?