It launched in north america on september 24, 2001. Top 5 things i hate about the silent hill movie duration. The sites critical consensus reads, mediocre effort even by the standards of video game adaptations, silent hill. It was released in theaters on april 21, 2006 by tristar pictures the film is a loose adaptation of the first silent hill video game, which was developed by team silent and.
See silent hill for more uses silent hill is a psychological horror franchise developed and published by konami that began in 1999. Not only can i not describe the plot of this movie, but i have a feeling the last scene reverses. The first installment in the silent hill series, the game was released in north america and europe in january 31, 1999 and in japan in march 4, 1999. 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. Here are 20 of silent hill s most disturbing facts you had no idea about, warning, you may need to leave the light on after this one. This is the 1st time i played a game of silent hill. Nov 18, 2015 underneath the streets a massive fire burns. On the way, the pair drive through a portal in reality, leading to an eerie town called silent hill. It was rereleased on the playstation store for playstation portable and playstation 3, but not for playstation vita however, it can be played. Silent hill movie, storyline revealed home theater forum. The success of the series has generated the franchise to expand and include various comics, two feature films, and several spinoff video games. With radha mitchell, laurie holden, sean bean, deborah kara unger.
Silent hill is the first installment in the silent hill series of psychological survival horror video games. The first four video games in the series, silent hill, 2, 3 and 4. Umbrella is the source of the promblem for the tvirus that caused everything. It was released for the sony playstation in north america on january 31, 1999. The second installment in the silent hill series, silent hill 2 centers on james sunderland, a widower who journeys to the town after receiving a letter from his dead wife informing him that she is waiting there for him. The synopsis has now been removed from carmodys site, but a reader. I love the atmosphere and score, which are heavily influenced or come directly from the games. The 2006 silent hill movie deviates considerably from this timeline and is considered an alternate universe in the franchise. As rose enters the town, we see how a gray ashy sky. When her adoptive father disappears, sharon da silva is drawn into a strange and terrifying alternate reality that holds answers to the horrific nightmares that have plagued her since childhood. Silent hill is at its strongest when we are left in the dark.
The movie is not 100% exactly based off any one silent hill video game. Rose takes sharon to silent hill, a coal mining town that appears to be haunting the girl. Oct 12, 2017 the silent hill franchise began in 1999, and even though it experienced a minor setback with the recent cancellation of silent hills, the previous installments still have secrets to explore. Apr 20, 2006 the people who live in silent hill are dead, i guess. Ash and smoke erupt from the earth, people flee their homes, and a once vibrant township is now a ghost town. The video game series has received strong critical acclaim, having revolutionized the survival horror genre of video games since its release. Watch silent hill 2006 full movie online free in hd europix. Silent hill is a 2006 horror film directed by christophe gans and written by roger.
That summary doesnt sound good, harry wrote about politics, not ghost stories, and it wasnt what brought him to silent hill, if it was a different character who was a journalist looking for material and its what brings him to silent hill to be punished it could work, it seems like the resident evil movies where it just uses the name and look of the character to make you go, hey, its harry. Silent hill the socalled horror picture that was shown a few years earlier. Jul 12, 2008 its a bit tedious to try to explain it all in detail youd pretty much have to explain the first silent hill game in its entirety, but in short, the land that would later become silent hill always possessed a mysterious power. Smog and fallen ashes surround the road leading to silent hill. Deze games hebben een plot, een visuele en auditieve stijl, een complexe. Revelation is a decent timekiller, but its riddled with flaws. Silent hill town based on the real life story of centralia. The silent hill movies three layers of reality explained. The movie was filmed in the super 35 film format, except the scenes with the darkness, which were filmed in. Once the revelations are made, it fails to hit the right tone for the last 14 of the movie. Purgatory the fog world, biblical quotes are used to highlight alessas story. 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. People stare at heather from behind closed windows.
The town is surrounded by a potent darkness, and the human survivors fight a losing battle against it. In fact, christophers journey never intersects with that of rose and sharon at. He is currently happy with his daily life, living in the south ashfield heights apartments. Heres who just voted to let the fbi seize your online search history without a warrant.
Silent hill is visually impressive, but as with many video game adaptations, its plagued by inane dialogue, a muddled plot, and an overlong runtime. Silent hill storyline details keep in mind that for some reason the final resolution to the story is mostly revealed in that link so if you want. Silent hill 3 release date, cast, trailer premiere. The main elements to a silent hill world are minimalism, light, and the scoremusic. Does anyone know the base story behind silent hill. But what makes the silent hill movie unique, along with its story, is the environment. Apr 30, 2020 written into the movie due to studio concerns over its lack of male characters, christophers inclusion in the script feels lazy and pointless only serving to drag audiences out of silent hills atmospheric world to follow his tedious realworld storyline. Revelations 2012, based on the third game, primarily. Shattered memories is a radical reimagining alternateuniverse echo of 1 that merely reuses certain characters names, traits, a. The film adaptation of silent hill used centralia, pennsylvania as inspiration, though it has nothing to do with the games.
Silent hill 3 is far more up front than silent hill or silent hill 2 is about its plot, and thus is less deep overall. Nonetheless, fans have flocked to the dead town of centralia to bring. In fact, concerning the silent hill games, there are several of them, but they all deal with different stories. Ohm, this movie is based on silent hill 3 and takes a lot of its plot with some changes to adept the already changed story from sh1 movie. Born in a time when games were all about cheap thrills and quick bucks came silent hill.
The world of silent hill is unlike any other, full of despair and sorrow. A more definitive version of the game, silent hill 2. Silent hill, maine, is a quiet american resort town known for its very peaceful ambiance, but the memories of a tragic house fire seven years ago, in which a girl named alessa gillespie died, still haunts the town and the townsfolk. Exploring the movie adaption of silent hill, based on the popular horror video game series. And youtube gave me a chance to make some videos about silent hill even better. A missed opportunity, since visually the movie is still beautiful and manages. The silent hill franchise began in 1999, and even though it experienced a minor setback with the recent cancellation of silent hills, the previous installments still have secrets to explore. The second part was accepted by the audience negatively, and critics attacked with accusations and harsh words to creators.
But in this case, the script does take inspiration from a real story. Silent hill is a 2006 psychological horror film directed by christophe gans and written by roger. Written into the movie due to studio concerns over its lack of male characters, christophers inclusion in the script feels lazy and pointless only serving to drag audiences out of silent hill s atmospheric world to follow his tedious realworld storyline. A woman, rose, goes in search for her adopted daughter within the confines of a strange, desolate town called silent hill. Producer don carmody has finally shed some light on the details here. Based on multiple playthroughs and research, weve compiled the following silent hill story explanation for you. With calle papsoe, maya papsoe, saffron rainsford, matilda westin. Revelation was released on october 26, 2012 to critical failure, but modest commercial success. This explanation is based on information gathered throughout the game, multiple endings and my own personal theories. The video game series has received strong critical acclaim, having revolutionized the survival horror genre of video.
The town that inspired the silent hill movie has a real. Unable to accept the fact that her daughter is dying, rose radha mitchell decides to take the girl to a faith healer. Disturbing silent hill facts you had no idea about thegamer. Video about the alessa gillespie story that is reallly good. This story ball story is entirely based on the same game. They live in abandoned buildings and in the mines and in a smoke and flame factory, which you will recall from my little movie glossary is a factorylike location of uncertain purpose which generates a lot of smoke and. So join us as we go through silent hill 1, silent hill 2.
See silent hill for more uses silent hill is a 2006 horror film directed by christophe gans and written by roger avary in conjunction with christophe gans and nicolas boukhrief. Unofficially, there is another movie that is not related to the original plot of the series. In the film, silent hill is a west virginia ghost town abandoned in 1974 due to a devastating fire. With it came a new direction in gaming that effectively defined the playstation 2. Aug 14, 2019 a continuation of the original games storyline, silent hill 3 stars heather, a feisty teenager dragged kicking and screaming into a world of freakish demons and religious zealots. But with her story she alluding that she in a young age became. Fear of silent hill is a movie based mostly on the life of the abused 14year old girl alessa, who on some times become friends with the young girl alma wade who in some ways is very similar to alessa. Revelation 3d features weak characters and an incomprehensible plot with a shortage of scares. The eerie and deserted ghost town of silent hill draws a young mother desperate to find a cure for her only childs illness.
Restless dreams, was rereleased with new features on the playstation 2 as. While it is based on the first and second games, it follows a unique adaption to the original storyline. On the way, they encounter motorcycle cop cybil laurie holden, who follows rose and sharon to silent hill. The room, were developed by an internal group called. Feb 14, 2005 silent hill the movie has been revealed. It sounds like the opening of the popular konami video game series silent hill which was inspired by the town, but for the people of centralia, pennsylvania, this is a reality. Silent hill follows the nightmarish story of rose radha mitchell, whose daughter sharon jodelle ferland is a longtime sleepwalker pulled by a mysterious force. In fact, the mother and daughter of the movie replace the original father and daugther storyline in the video game but it is the same story. On the way, the pair drive through a portal in reality, leading to an eerie.
The town that inspired the silent hill movie has a real and tragic story. Silent hill 2 is a survival horror video game published by konami for the playstation 2 and developed by team silent, part of konami computer entertainment tokyo. Silent whore silent hill parody pyramid head fucks amber blank. Plot summary for silent hill 2006, plus mistakes, quotes, trivia and more.
However, due to a legality issue necessitating the hiring of a canadian composer for the film, jeff danna was. With adelaide clemens, kit harington, sean bean, carrieanne moss. Silent hill dvd, 2006, widescreen edition for sale online. Christophe gans announced he would be making another silent hill movie. 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. Director christophe gans wanted to use the original soundtrack recordings of akira yamaokas scores from the various silent hill video games in the film. If youre a fan of horror movies or the silent hill video game series, then i think this is a worthy buy. Plot henry townshend is living in south ashfield, a town that is a half a days drive away from silent hill. The 2006 silent hill movie deviates considerably from this timeline and is considered an alternate universe in the. Similar to the resident evil franchise, silent hill made its mark in horror history as a classic video game and original film concept. Another issue i have with the movie is the husband storyline. Officially, these two movies mentioned in the other answers silent hill 2006, based on the first and the second games, and silent hill.
Revelation 3d, heather mason clemens and her father bean have been on the run, always one step ahead of dangerous forces that she doesnt fully understand. Sairento hiru is a horror media franchise centered on a series of survival horror video games, created by keiichiro toyama, developed and published by konami, and published by its subsidiary konami digital entertainment. It was released in theaters on april 21, 2006 by tristar pictures the film is a loose adaptation of the first silent hill video game, which was developed by team silent. It soon becomes clear she has intrinsic, unbreakable ties to the town and its otherworldly rituals. Revelation follows heather mason as her father is kidnapped and used as bait to lure her into the nightmarish town of silent hill. The town that inspired the silent hill movie has a real and. The atmosphere, story, and scare factors are what made them worth playing. Many silent hill installments have different logo styles. The silent hill hd collection for the playstation 3 and xbox 360 features ports of silent hill 2 and silent hill 3.
But i know a few details about silent hill because of my brothers. Timeline of silent hill games and related media whenever theres the words silent and hill put together, one can assume theres some real spooky shit afoot. What the hell was the storyline in silent hill yahoo answers. It doesnt exactly follow the story in silent hill 3, but does use some of its elements and characters.
In 2006, a film based on the videogame was made, directed by christopher gans, in which the plot follows loosely the first and third episode of the series. Like the game series the silent hill movie features three layers of reality. This timeline of events covers silent hill, silent hill 3 and silent hill. It has, however, caught a lot of criticism from both fans and the original developers for changing the look, sound, and feel of the games too much and having many stability related bugs. It sounds like the opening of the popular konami video game series silent hill which was inspired by the town, but for the people of centralia, pennsylvania, this. A monster takes vincent but leaves heather untouched heather needs to enter silent hill by her own volition. 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.
The silent hill game series timeline the leaderboard youtube. The movie is creepy throughout, but the plot seems designed primarily for those with insider knowledge of the game. Revelation 3d 2012 a lthough i have not played the game on which this film is based nor would i care to, i have to say that as a film it works from an artistic standpoint, but falls slightly flat in storyline, oddly enough making it a little hard to follow. Silent hill 2 is the second installment in the silent hill survival horror series and the first game of the series to be released for sony playstation 2. Silent hill has always been kind of a clunky horror series, gameplaywise. It takes a lot of thought to decipher, and im not sure all the clues are there. Silent hill is a survival horror video game for the playstation published by konami and developed by team silent, a group in konami computer entertainment tokyo.
The director, christophe gans, uses graphics and special effects and computers and grainy, scratchy film stock and surrealistic images and makes silent hill look more like an experimental art film than a horror film except for the horror, of course. Ill go to bat for silent hill and say that theres 34 of a really solid horror movie here. Feb 14, 2005 silent hill producer don carmody recently posted a synopsis for the forthcoming gametofilm adaptation on his personal website. Silent hill is a 2006 supernatural horror film directed by christophe gans, based on the celebrated konami video game series silent hill. Some of them glow like old embers on a fire, which is not a sign of life. Everything actually wrong with the silent hill movie youtube. The game was developed by team silent and published by konami. Nov 20, 2019 silent hill has scared and horrified millions through the series, seeing the pyramid head and some of the other horrifying monsters. May 04, 20 welcome to silent hill all cutscenes hd these are all the fmvs we experienced in my silent hill walkthrough, there are many cutscenes left but again these are the ones that appeared on the. Silent hill uses a thirdperson view, with realtime rendering of 3d environments. The eerie and deserted ghost town of silent hill draws a young mother. Apr 14, 2007 the movie is not 100% exactly based off any one silent hill video game. Silent hill 1 ps1 all cutscenescinematicfmvs read description.
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