Fearing for her adopted daughter’s safety (she’s been having dangerous sleepwalking episodes) Rose decides to take her girl to the town she only mentions in her fugue state... a place called Silent Hill. Her husband Christopher (Sean f’n Bean) is not that keen on the idea but Rose goes on and does it anyways. She runs into a suspicious cop (Laurie Holden, rocking some hella-tight leather pants) who ends up following her and pulling her over. Not one to be deterred, Rose hits the gas and zooms her way to the abandoned ghost town. Barely avoiding a collision with some wandering creep, Rose loses control of her car and knocks her dumb self out on her steering wheel. She wakes up to find her daughter missing and herself trapped in the creep-ass town of Silent Hill where ash falls like snow and some very unsettling beings call home. Sean Bean searches for his family with detective Kim Coates as it looks like his wife and daughter have vanished off the face of the earth. Meanwhile, Rose stumbles across various awful things and is pursued by a sect of religious nuts who have somehow managed to survive the horrific hell on earth Silent Hill briefly becomes when the sirens wail. Of course, there’s some awful secrets at work and more than a few unhappy endings playing out. There’s an excellent soundtrack, a lack of logic fueling the nightmare scenario and a giant sword-wielding freak called Pyramid Head. Atmospheric and severely flawed, there’s a good... even great film in here somewhere. Unfortunately, outside of the atmospherics and some cool creatures, there ain’t much else to bring on the recommendations.
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