Silent Hill (2006)

Silent Hill is a 2006 horror film directed by Christophe Gans and written by Roger Avary. The story is an adaptation of the Silent Hill series of survival horror games created by Konami. The film, particularly its emotional and aesthetic content as well as its creature design, includes elements from Silent Hill, Silent Hill 2, and Silent Hill 3. The film also includes some music, such as Wounded Warsong, from the fourth game. A game in the series released after the film, Silent Hill Homecoming, incorporated some elements of the film.

The film follows a mother, Rose, who takes her troubled adopted daughter, Sharon, to Silent Hill, the town the girl cries out for while sleepwalking. After being knocked unconscious in a car crash outside the town, Rose awakens to find her daughter missing and the town engulfed in an alternate reality of fog and falling ash. While searching for her daughter, she faces surreal reality shifts and monstrous creatures while uncovering her daughter’s connections to the town’s dark secrets.

Directed by Christophe Gans
Produced by Samuel Hadida
Don Carmody
Konami
Team Silent
Written by Roger Avary
Christophe Gans
Nicolas Boukhrief
Starring Radha Mitchell
Sean Bean
Laurie Holden
Jodelle Ferland
Deborah Kara Unger
Alice Krige
Tanya Allen
Kim Coates
Music by Jeff Danna
Akira Yamaoka
Cinematography Dan Laustsen
Editing by Sébastien Prangère
Distributed by TriStar Pictures
Release date(s) April 21, 2006
Running time 127 min.
Country Canada
France
Language English
Japanese
Budget $50,000,000
Gross revenue $97,607,453

~ by blackdog7 on October 3, 2009.