![]() Still more amusing as this is the second film in. But despite its often-overwhelming nonsensicality, there’s ultimately something irresistibly fiendish about Silent Hill, which not only condemns holier-than-thou religious zealots, but also-if I understand its gruesome finale-seems to be firmly on the side of the Devil. It appears Sean Bean (Harry) is going to be killed at first, but in the end he survives to the end of the film. Combining facets of Dark Water and Rosemary’s Baby with Dante’s Inferno, the Orpheus legend, and the Old and New Testament (via scripture-quoting signs and Rose and Sharon’s symbolic names), the film is detrimentally overstuffed with backstory, unbelievable protagonist behavior, and video game-worthy dialogue that doesn’t improve even when spoken by a wraithlike Deborah Kara Unger or a psychotic Alice Krige. ![]() After the duo flee father/husband Christopher (Sean Bean) and a cop (Laurie Holden) and arrive at the titular town, mother and daughter are separated, instigating a maternal-instinct driven quest by Rose which involves descending into Hades, fleeing demons, and combating devout fanatics who, in their desire to avert the apocalypse by righteously burning supposed witches, have unleashed a plague of unholy, vengeful darkness. ![]() More frustratingly confusing is Avary’s script, which follows Rose (a stilted Radha Mitchell) and adopted child Sharon (Jodelle Ferland) to Silent Hill, a ghost town decimated years earlier by a fire, that the little girl likes to scream about during laughably perilous bouts of sleepwalking near a waterfall’s cliffs. And Gans complements these elaborately icky visions of hell-which, in their unnatural synthesis of flesh and metal, feel indebted to the work of Clive Barker-with askew camera angles, encircling pans, and a creepy score (composed of lullaby piano twinkling and metallic clanging) to breed a mood of nightmarish disorientation. Po prvýkrát sa oenil v roku 1981 za kaderníku Debru Jamesovú a druhýkrát v roku 1990 za hereku Melanie Hillovú, s ktorou má dve dcéry. ![]() From its foggy, ash-covered small town to its rotting, mutating building interiors, Silent Hill is a spectacle of the grisly and gory highlighted by some truly repugnant armless/eyeless/faceless monsters (including a pyramid-headed villain who wields an enormous sword and a man hog-tied with barb-wire slithering across a bathroom). Neustálený, rozlietaný a vene riskujúci dobrodruh - to je britský herec Sean Bean. Fortunately, the technically proficient Brotherhood of the Wolf director has visual flair to burn, and with his latest, his exquisitely disgusting creatures and production design (all source material-faithful, it should be noted) are frequently more than enough to counteract screenwriter Roger Avary’s clunky attempts to meld dense mythological exposition, game-related references, and bibilical allusions. Sean Bean can next be seen in The Island.Since the Silent Hill video games pioneered many elements that have since come to define J-Horror (living dead girls, beasts shuffling about as if on broken limbs, an atmosphere of irrational terror), it’s difficult to fault Christophe Gans’s adaptation of Konami’s superb interactive series for delivering a few familiar scary sights. Silent Hill is expected in theaters sometime in 2006. The real world's just normal." For those interested in taking a look at the Silent Hill sets, has posted a link to an online Silent Hill photo gallery. There's always this fog cobwebbed around the Silent Hill world. I'm in the real world, and I'm trying to find passages on different planes. She gets involved with a very murky, dangerous world, very creepy, which is all in different time levels as well. My wife decides it might be a good idea to take her there. She tries to get out of the house, wakes up in the middle of the night. "She keeps mentioning 'Silent Hill, Silent Hill.' She's always trying to get there. Bean adds to this synopsis, saying that his daughter in the film is obsessed with a place called Silent Hill even before they encounter it. Rose and her daughter both become pawns in supernatural power play, forced to make some difficult choices in order to survive. The mother, named Rose, attempts to take the child to see a faith healer, but instead the two end up in an alternate reality – a demon-haunted ghost town called Silent Hill. It involves a couple with a child who is dying of a terminal illness. He's given a really quirky, bizarre feel, very spooky: a very European kind of genre film." While the exact plot of the film has been kept under wraps, frequent readers may remember our previous report on the story. Actor Sean Bean, whose skills have contributed to such films as The Fellowship of the Ring and Patriot Games, complimented Gans and his work on the movie so far in an interview with Sci Fi Wire.
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