If you are a horror film and you are not even remotely creepy, then you have essentially failed the most basic requirement for being one.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Feb 13, 2025

Somehow manages to avoid delivering much of what made either the first movie or the original video game series appealing, with its confounding narrative feeling entirely accidental as opposed to intentionally mysterious.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 20, 2023

I was impressed by the film's production values and visual panache. Between the Rembrandt burnish of the cinematography and the antique-store detail of the design, ugliness has never looked so pretty.

| Jul 31, 2019

A mesmerizing display of human grotesquerie like Hieronymous Bosch filtered through Clive Barker, and that's exactly how it should be.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 2, 2018

It's one of the better videogame adaptations, up there with the original Silent Hill and, eh, Doom?

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 19, 2017

An incoherent and disappointing sequel made exclusively for gaming fans.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Aug 28, 2017

It manages to not only contort itself into a form that is simultaneously convoluted and stupid but it also skilfully avoids any audience engagement despite a tumultuous whirl of spectacle and noise.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 25, 2013

The demon-haunted West Virginia town still gives the creeps... but this belated sequel proves to be only fitfully exciting and scary - mostly because the action stops every few minutes for yet another character to deliver reams of boring exposition.

| Mar 19, 2013

There has to be someone out there who can make a successful video-game adaptation because faith is being lost year after year and Silent Hill: Revelation does nothing for the many unwavering believers.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 19, 2013

Just how terrible is SH3D? Well, at one point, writer-director Michael J. Bassett actually tries to scare you with a Kellogg's Frosted Pop-Tart. No kidding.

| Original Score: .5/5 | Feb 15, 2013

I can't imagine anyone who hasn't played the video game who would give a shout-out to the 'Silent Hill' sequel.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Nov 20, 2012

It's like going through a cheesy house of horrors at the local carnival. You want it to end, but not because it's scary.

| Original Score: F | Nov 11, 2012

( ... ) saturated with over-the-top sound effects. Did nobody realise that it's called Silent Hill?

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 9, 2012

It's in too much of a rush, and tries to cram in so much plot that unless you're familiar with the game it's closely adapted from, chances are it will leave you baffled.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 9, 2012

With Bean unable to save the unsavable, we're left with waves of hard-working special effects trying to torture Heather instead of being able to enjoy a top star on form.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 7, 2012

Can't even offer up the flashy production design that aficionados of the game liked about the Christophe Gans-directed original.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 4, 2012

A sacrilegious adaptation of an excellent video game, Silent Hill: Revelation will infuriate gamers, and just confuse everyone else.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Nov 2, 2012

"Come to Silent Hill" reads a "scary" message left for teen damsel Heather. Hell, no.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 2, 2012

I realize it's called Silent Hill for a reason, but enduring this botched (video game-based) nightmare is like sleepwalking into the world's dullest Halloween party.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Nov 2, 2012

The random, hectic storyline has little rhyme or reason, the unimaginative 3D feels like a rip-off and only Clemens seems to be taking this seriously.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 1, 2012