Silent Hill: Revelation [Blu-ray]

Silent Hill Revelation is a sequel to the very popular cult film Silent Hill. Daughter Sharon Da Silva (Adelaide Clemens) is now a grown teenager in her last years of high school. Her stepdad and she move from town to town, she assumes, because her dad is wanted for killing a man. In reality, her dad is trying to protect her from the Order from Silent Hill, who knows that she is the key to release of their nightmare existence in Silent Hill. Sharon finds a friend in high school, Vincent Cooper (Kit Harrington) who makes friends with Sharon. One day Sharon returns home to see it all smashed up and the dreaded note written in blood on the wall-- "Come to Silent Hill." Sharon embarks on the journey to Silent hill with Vincent to find her father to rescue him, as he's obviously been captured and taken back.The various adventures Sharon embarks on involves the cursed people who are mutated into various forms of monsters of sorts, living in torment in Silent Hill. These creatures are deliciously warped and the stuff of nightmares. The whole journey through Silent Hill is an exercise in everything that makes you queasy and many symbols of what could be your nightmares. Dark, spooky, and dangerous, Sharon and her friend endure all the tasks that eventually lead her to the heart of Silent Hill where a great standoff is set up for the climax.I've enjoyed moody, dark horror movies all my life-- you might say, it's my cup of tea. I found this movie to be very entertaining. The characters were perfect for the story, and well played. Malcolm McDowell was absolutely excellent as he always has been, the reprise of Sharon's mom, Rose (Radha Mitchell) was excellent, as were the many creatures who frequented the adventures.I haven't played the game or the sequel game, so I view this movie purely on its own merits as a sequel just to the movie. On that basis I thought it was excellent. Dark and deeply disturbing, it had all the elements of a great horror flick. I've noticed for a number of years now that the Canadian productions seem to be a bit more sophisticated than the Hollywood releases-- it might be the European influence to bring a better brand of movie experience to the screen. But most of the Canadian films are top notch nowadays. This is no exception, it's well made and thought out from beginning to end. The characters are well played and intelligent.The last 20 minutes leading up to the climax is superbly crafted with many very spooky creatures as Sharon goes deeper into the bowels of Silent Hill looking to find and save her dad with her new found friend. Carrie-Anne Moss plays an excellent part of the story and the many character parts are played in a realistic fashion. I enjoyed every minute of this movie, it was entertaining from beginning to the end.If you watch this movie on its own merits as a sequel to Silent Hill, you will enjoy it. Don't waste your time comparing it to the game. Although many elements and the theme are similar to the game, this movie stands on its own as its own story. Be prepared to be entertained for 90 minutes. I liked the movie well enough to buy it from Amazon. Highly recommended, worth the rental to see if it's something you'd like to own. Turn off the phones, tuck away somewhere private, stock up on your popcorn candy and pop and be prepared to watch in one sitting. You will be entertained.

this movie is great! really sticks to the source material (silent hill 3 ps2). it covers everything really well and only veers from the original sparingly. the budget was a little low but so what? it still looks pretty great and the budget issue only shows glaringly once or twice. the other thing is the acting is odd, this is because all the main characters are english or australian pretending to be american, so their speech sounds stilted just because they're masking their accents and trying to mimic american speech patterns.other than that it's gold. for a long time lover of the games this will please. they definitely kept it true for the fans! they even brought back in the idea of the silent hill people trying to resurrect their "god", which was left out of the first one for some reason. the only real divergence form the source is the large part given to and the exact nature of the people trying to resurrect the "god". in the game they're super vague and their position a little different. however they have reconciled them a little more true to the game since the first movie where they were totally different.the ending is hilariously bad, that much i can say, but it's a thirty second scene and it's fun while still being really ridiculous. then there's a shameless tie in of a bunch of different things to cap up the movie which is also ridiculous, but a fan will just smile because of how many ideas they cram into the last 60 seconds or so! it's like "oh i know what that is! ah! that's from this one! ha ha, they even brought in [blank, no spoilers ;)] and got his/her name right!" and so on. for a non gamer it might be kind of cheesy... or more like super cheesy, but for someone used to the stilted and odd dialogue of the game series it's nothing new.i think there must have been a scene planned of nurse vs a certain monster (again no spoilers) because it shows a still model that the camera swings around in the credits. must have gotten cut for time or something, shame because it would have been epic!!!another thing:all those who say this and the first film are not true to the games: compare them to the resident evil series!!!!the first RE movie is about 20% true to the games. the third and after are about 5%. (the second film is an exception and is really similar to the games but one out of five movies does not tip the scales so i'm omitting it for this argument).silent hill one is about 70% true to the games, and silent hill revelations is about 80% true to the games!RE just wanted to own the rights to make movies that they could sell using the name recognition of the games.silent hill clearly is much more dedicated to creating movies that are relatively true to the games! give them a break!

Not as great as the first movie but still one of the better videogame movies made.