Concentrate on the design of the piece, and Silent Hill is a very effective and perverse fantasy thriller. Pay too much attention to the writing, and it will become a a much more hollow, unedifying experience.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Feb 11, 2025

While this adaptation was surprisingly faithful to the game, when told through the medium of film the plot is a bloated and confusing mess. It is hard to connect with the film’s characters in the onslaught of horror imagery and exposition dumps.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 22, 2024

…Silent Hill is no masterpiece, the plotting is lopsided, the climax confusing and somewhat repellently violent in a Clive Barker way, but it’s also a strong, female-driven story with exquisite visuals and sound design…

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 4, 2023

The result looks better than most based-on-a-video-game adaptations, but the storytelling is just as dim as we’ve come to expect from such material.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 25, 2022

Fans of the game could well be bewitched by Gans' attempts to recreate its tone and atmosphere, but those unfamiliar with the storyline will simply be left bothered and bewildered.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 19, 2022

Unfairly maligned by critics, Silent Hill is a gorgeous, mostly faithful video game adaptation that benefits from director Christophe Gans' impressive visual eye.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 29, 2021

Gets lost over-explaining things in the last act (which somehow makes it even more confusing), but the first two are filled with such great atmosphere and style that it mostly makes up for it.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 26, 2021

A very weak movie, which could have been much better. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Feb 13, 2020

Where this movie shines is in its disturbing imagery, its very creepy visuals, and the stunning production design.

| Original Score: B | Oct 24, 2019

Certainly, it's a far better bet than such unwatchable video-game efforts as Assassin's Creed, Max Payne and the worst-of-the-worst Alone in the Dark, even if it doesn't offer much more than superb visuals wrapped around an underwhelming narrative.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 13, 2019

A train wreck. And this one is so bad I couldn't wait to look away.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Jun 5, 2019

An entertaining horror film. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Apr 25, 2019

The story is complex and kind of hard to follow, but this didn't stop it from being enjoyable.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 25, 2019

There are worse adaptations of video games out there but this one will probably leave the PlayStation generation itching for their consoles.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 25, 2019

An atmospheric, disturbing and bloody movie, very true to the video games. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 27, 2017

Visually arresting but only sporadically enthralling.

| Jan 22, 2010

It's one of the best video game adaptations I've seen in years.

| Apr 29, 2009

Whilst not as atrocious as some other films that have opened this year, the truely woeful story and quality of Silent is saved only by its occasion moments of visual flair, and its all over effective creepy atmosphere.

| Jan 15, 2008

When everything starts being explained, the mystery evaporates and the world of the game loses its eerie bafflement.

| Original Score: C | Oct 31, 2007

The latest, most ambitious and perhaps least comprehensible video game adaptation in recent memory.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 14, 2007