A woman, Rose, goes in search for her adopted daughter within the confines of a strange, desolate town called Silent Hill.A woman, Rose, goes in search for her adopted daughter within the confines of a strange, desolate town called Silent Hill.A woman, Rose, goes in search for her adopted daughter within the confines of a strange, desolate town called Silent Hill.
- Awards
- 8 nominations
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Storyline
Sharon Da Silva wakes up every night screaming about "Silent Hill". Pursued by a police officer suspicious of her motives and swerving to avoid another child, her adoptive mother Rose crashes the car, knocking herself unconscious. When Rose awakens to find Sharon is missing, she searches the fog- and ash-blanketed town for her beloved daughter. —Pel Par
- Taglines
- Enjoy your stay.
- Genres
- Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
- Rated R for strong horror violence and gore, disturbing images, and some language
- Parents guide
Did you know
- TriviaIt took director Christophe Gans five years to obtain the rights to make the film. He was given the rights after he sent Konami a video of an interview describing how much Silent Hill meant to him. Along with the interview, he sent scenes that he filmed on his own dollar cut up and overlayed with music from the games.
- GoofsWhen Rose is at the gas station, she's wearing a locket around her neck. The next time you see the necklace pendant, as she first walks through Silent Hill's main road through town, she is wearing a carabiner as a necklace pendant and not the locket. In the next scene when she wakes up in the bowling alley, you can see it's back to a locket.
- Quotes
Christabella: Burn her as a witch! Burn her!
Rose Da Silva: Burn me? That's your answer... Burn anything you're afraid of. Burn anything you can't control.
- Crazy creditsThe first segment of the ending credits plays out much like the ending credits of the games.
- Alternate versionsIn Canada, there is rumored to exist an extended cut of the film which runs approx. 132 minutes. It is also said to be the full uncut version of the film itself, which to this day, has never been released outside Canada. This version, being the full version of the movie that was filmed contains longer, sometimes more explicit scenes, more disturbing features (as well as extended scenes that explain everything unlike in the American Theatrical Cut) that was possibly all cut to prevent an NC-17 rating in the USA.
- ConnectionsEdited into Silent Hill: Revelation (2012)
- SoundtracksWaiting for You (SHF1)
Vocalist Mary Elizabeth McGlynn
Written and Performed by Akira Yamaoka
Courtesy of Konami
(plays in the gas station diner)
Top review
Good and eerie adaptation about famous video game and well realized by Christophe Gans
This creepy and fantastic film gets a riveting script by Roger Avary. It's a spectacular piece and quite scary, so many levels, so many complexities and so many wonderful themes that are permeating throughout. It's like ¨Alice in Wonderland¨ meet ¨Dante's Inferno¨. It's based on known game and completely unique, absolutely frightening and, basically, one of the few games that actually could become a movie. Samuel Hadida , producer of the last three movie of Christophe Gans tells the game was conceptualized on the difficult way, because we had to go convince the Japanese people from Konami Corporation, they produced the game, to give us the right to make the film . The game has such a cult following, the fan base is very protecting. Christophe Gans is careful to maintain the suspense and all the areas , like the means of illumination in the darkness by a splendid cinematography by Dan Laustein and certain key of characters and antagonists, furthermore an appropriate music score by Jeff Danna. Gans has a very surrealist sort of vision of the game and the film itself sort of explores the boundaries of reality. The Silent Hill movie is a great experience, is something disturbing , it's not only about fear, it's also about emotion.
The cast is really exciting. There's a series of fresh faces, actors that you may be familiar with but you haven't seen then a thousand times before, they're going to bring life to the characters. The producers very deliberately went toward actors from independent film because they bring with them something different, a different quality. Actress like Radha Mitchell, Debora Kara Unger, Tanya Allen, Laurie Holden and Alice Krige, it's much more exciting to see somebody who doesn't used to do this kind of movie, but the audience of this type of film love that. For the role of Rose, Radha Mitchell, needed somebody with that blend of vulnerability but strength and determination as well. We have to feel her fear but also appreciate when she stands up to all these terrifying moments.In fact, the producers spent lots of time finding the perfect Rose. In terms of the sensibility that Christophe Gang was having in this character, Rose is sophisticated and very vulnerable and Radha Mitchell has both quality, she has a freshness and energy and excitement and life, there's this original look to her, all of which are precisely what the producers needed for the central character to lead us through this horrific environment. The director is focused on female character with just females leading the story in a way, with exception of two male characters: Sean Bean and Kim Coates. Christophe Gans is almost exorcised the idea of femininity by polarising it with the male characters, and all the women are in this kind of fantasy nightmare.
The cast is really exciting. There's a series of fresh faces, actors that you may be familiar with but you haven't seen then a thousand times before, they're going to bring life to the characters. The producers very deliberately went toward actors from independent film because they bring with them something different, a different quality. Actress like Radha Mitchell, Debora Kara Unger, Tanya Allen, Laurie Holden and Alice Krige, it's much more exciting to see somebody who doesn't used to do this kind of movie, but the audience of this type of film love that. For the role of Rose, Radha Mitchell, needed somebody with that blend of vulnerability but strength and determination as well. We have to feel her fear but also appreciate when she stands up to all these terrifying moments.In fact, the producers spent lots of time finding the perfect Rose. In terms of the sensibility that Christophe Gang was having in this character, Rose is sophisticated and very vulnerable and Radha Mitchell has both quality, she has a freshness and energy and excitement and life, there's this original look to her, all of which are precisely what the producers needed for the central character to lead us through this horrific environment. The director is focused on female character with just females leading the story in a way, with exception of two male characters: Sean Bean and Kim Coates. Christophe Gans is almost exorcised the idea of femininity by polarising it with the male characters, and all the women are in this kind of fantasy nightmare.
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- ma-cortes
- Oct 11, 2007
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Box office
- Budget
- $50,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $46,982,632
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $20,152,598
- Apr 23, 2006
- Gross worldwide
- $100,605,135
- Runtime2 hours 5 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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