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

| Original Score: B | Oct 24, 2019

Silent Hill starts out at point A and then goes so quickly, loudly and visually over-the-top that it flies completely off the rails into its own glorious weirdness.

Full Review | Mar 24, 2007

More deadly than silent.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 25, 2006

Sweet dreams are most assuredly not made of this, but then again, it's nice to see Uwe Boll clotheslined out of the video game-adaptation running for a while by such a smooth creeper.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 6, 2006

Maybe it's the kudos acquired by screenwriter Roger Avary in his association with Quentin Tarantino that has allowed him to write this unbelievably boring horror-thriller.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 6, 2006

French director Christophe Gans's adaptation of the Silent Hill computer game is visually inspired and thematically ambitious, yet ultimately uninvolving.

| May 6, 2006

Silent Hill? Nonsenseville, more like.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 6, 2006

Stuffed with cheap effects and devoid of tension, this French-Japanese-U.S. co-production contributes exactly zilch to the rich film history of those three nations.

Full Review | May 2, 2006

The film's peculiar rhythms%u2014action, exposition, action, exposition%u2014betray its video-game roots, but audiences unfamiliar with the Silent Hill series can be forgiven for thinking that the game asks players to run from place to place, shouting a l

| Original Score: C- | Apr 27, 2006

Silent Hill is mostly paralyzing in its vagueness.

| Original Score: D+ | Apr 26, 2006

Structured around a series of blackouts and gross-outs, Silent Hill is one long free fall through icky surrealism and underlighted nightmares.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 25, 2006

A great-looking but stupefyingly incoherent supernatural thriller,

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 24, 2006

Though Silent Hill's shoddy dialogue and incoherent story constantly irritate, several sights and scenes possess a certain surreal grandeur.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 24, 2006

Too long by about a half hour, very much in love with its own excessive style, it still manages to be kinda creepy, at least when it stops taking its metaphysics too seriously.

| Original Score: C- | Apr 24, 2006

The makers of the movie you're slogging through will spare no expense to demonstrate how much they hate us.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Apr 24, 2006

Despite its often-overwhelming nonsensicality, there's ultimately something irresistibly fiendish about Silent Hill.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 21, 2006

Christophe Gans' convoluted, overlong adaptation of the video game Silent Hill is the worst kind of horror movie: trash that takes itself seriously.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 21, 2006

I haven't the first clue, and I'm pretty sure neither do the filmmakers because, if they did, you'd think they'd have realized early on the meat and bones of their adventure were made out of nothing but burning ashes.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 21, 2006

Had Silent Hill been directed by Peter Jackson, perhaps there would have been an explanation or justification for its 127-minute length. But Christophe Gans? Seriously?

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 21, 2006

[Silent Hill] works up a decent amount of solid, creep-show atmosphere in its first act before making some absurd decisions of its own in its second.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 21, 2006