Silent Hill (film)

Silent Hill

Official promotional poster for Silent Hill
Directed by Christophe Gans
Produced by

Samuel Hadida
Don Carmody

Akira Yamaoka executive producer
Written by Roger Avary
Starring Radha Mitchell
Laurie Holden
Jodelle Ferland
Alice Krige
Sean Bean
Deborah Kara Unger
Tanya Allen
Kim Coates
Music by Jeff Danna
Akira Yamaoka
Cinematography Dan Laustsen
Editing by Sébastien Prangère
Studio Davis Films
Konami
Distributed by TriStar Pictures
Release date(s) April 21, 2006
Running time 127 minutes
Country Canada
Japan
France
United States
Language English
Japanese
Budget $50,000,000[1]
Gross revenue $97,607,453[1]

Silent Hill is a 2006 horror film directed by Christophe Gans and written by Roger Avary. The story is an adaptation of the Silent Hill series of survival horror games created by Konami. The film, particularly its emotional, religious and aesthetic content as well as its creature design, includes elements from Silent Hill, Silent Hill 2 and Silent Hill 3. The film also includes some music, such as "Wounded Warsong", from the fourth game. A game in the series released after the film, Silent Hill Homecoming, incorporated some elements of the film.[2][3]

The film follows a mother, Rose, who takes her troubled adopted daughter, Sharon, to Silent Hill, the town the girl cries out for while sleepwalking. After being knocked unconscious in a car crash outside the town, Rose awakens to find her daughter missing and the town engulfed in an alternate reality of fog and falling ash. While searching for her daughter, she faces surreal reality shifts and monstrous creatures while uncovering her daughter's connections to the town's dark secrets.

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Plot

Rose (Radha Mitchell) and her husband Christopher Da Silva (Sean Bean) are concerned about their adopted daughter Sharon (Jodelle Ferland) who has been experiencing extreme nightmares and sleepwalking while muttering the name of a town, "Silent Hill". Desperate for answers, Rose takes Sharon to Silent Hill. As they enter the town, she is chased by a police motorcycle driven by police officer Cybil Bennett (Laurie Holden). A mysterious child appears in the middle of the road, causing Rose to swerve and crash the car, knocking herself unconscious. When she awakens, Sharon is nowhere to be seen, and mist and falling ash blanket the town.

Rose wanders the empty streets of Silent Hill looking for her daughter. Instead, she encounters a series of monstrous creatures that appear after loud sirens wail. Rose also comes across a woman named Dahlia Gillespie (Deborah Kara Unger) who speaks of terrible things done to her own daughter, Alessa, by the townspeople. She claims that Sharon is Alessa. Rose then returns to the car and runs into Cybil, who arrests her. Together they discover that the road leading out of town has disappeared. They pair up to battle the monsters in the town.

Scenes of their search are interspersed with scenes of Christopher's seemingly simultaneous search of the town (which is shown to be abandoned but otherwise normal; no mist, no falling ash), with the reluctant assistance of Officer Thomas Gucci (Kim Coates), who admits to have grown up in Silent Hill. Christopher discovers documents showing the town was abandoned after a coal seam fire 30 years ago, along with a photo of Dahlia's daughter who bears a remarkable resemblance to Sharon. He is told to stop investigating Silent Hill under threat of incarceration. Faced with this, Christopher reluctantly gives up the search and heads home.

Rose and Cybil meet a woman named Anna (Tanya Allen), who leads them to the town church for refuge. The siren blares as they approach the building, and Anna is killed by Pyramid Head. In the church, Rose and Cybil discover a religious cult, headed by Christabella (Alice Krige). Christabella tells Rose about "the demon" and that it knows where Sharon is. After convincing Christabella that she wants to find "the demon" so feared by the townspeople, Rose (along with Cybil) is taken to a hospital in the town. Here, Christabella learns of the likeness between Sharon and Alessa and condemns Rose and Cybil as witches. Cybil lets herself become captured and beaten with pipes by the townspeople in order for Rose to escape and descend into the basement of the hospital. There, Rose encounters a badly burned figure – Alessa – in a hospital bed and a mysterious little girl who strongly resembles the missing Sharon.

In a flashback, Rose discovers that Silent Hill has a long history of ritual witch burnings, stemming from the Puritan-like beliefs of the cult. Thirty years prior to the movie, Alessa was heavily stigmatized as an incarnation of sin for having been born out of wedlock by an unknown father (whom is suggested to be of supernatural origin, a classic Lovecraftian device[4]): her schoolmates bully and humiliate her, with adults making no effort to protect her. Dahlia, Alessa's mother, agrees to Christabella's suggestions that she allow the cult to 'restore the innocence' in Alessa. When not allowed to follow her daughter into the ritual, Dahlia guesses at the cult's ill intentions and runs for the police. Alessa is subjected to a hideous ritual burning: the conditions of her birth are seen as marks of sin, for which they must burn her. However, in the midst of the ritual, the cage by which she is suspended directly above the red hot coals swings, dumping the coal and causing a fire. When Dahlia returns with the police, Alessa is horribly burnt but still alive. Rose learns that the manifestation of Alessa's remaining innocence and goodness took Sharon's likeness and led Rose through her journey. After the flashback, Rose is told that she must aid Alessa in her revenge by granting her entry to the church; she is also told that Christabella will soon find the real Sharon and attempt to burn her as well.

Rose enters the church soon after Cybil has already been burned to death by the townspeople, and Sharon is about to suffer a similar fate. She confronts the townspeople and Christabella with her new knowledge of the truth, attempting to convince the cult that they are in denial of their own fate. Christabella stabs Rose, causing her blood to drip onto the church floor. The blood serves as a portal, and Alessa rises out of a pit and proceeds to kill Christabella and the townspeople with long tendrils of barbed wire, leaving Dahlia, Rose, and Sharon the only survivors. Rose and Sharon leave Silent Hill and return home. Although Rose and Sharon are in the same room as Christopher (who has also returned home), they cannot see each other.

Cast

Production

Gans attempted for five years to obtain the film rights to Silent Hill from Konami. He sent a video interview to them explaining his plans for adapting Silent Hill and how important the games are to him.[8] They were so impressed, he was rewarded with the film rights. Konami Japan and Team Silent, the development team responsible for the Silent Hill game series, became directly involved with the production of the film from the pre-production stage all the way to the post-production stage. In 2004, Gans and Roger Avary began writing the script, which would be the first film in a series of Silent Hill films.[9] There is a three-and-a-half hour cut of the movie, according to imdb.com.

Writer Roger Avary had said that as a boy, his father, who was a mining engineer, used to tell him stories about the town of Centralia, where coal deposits from the local mine caught fire and released toxic gases into the town, as well as creating sinkholes when the abandoned mineshafts and coal seams began to collapse. This forced the town to evacuate forever. Avary was fascinated since childhood by the idea that fires underneath the town would be burning for such a long time and the story of Centralia was used as the basis for the township of Silent Hill.[6] When the script was finished, a studio memo was sent to Gans and Avary that voiced concerns about the lack of a male presence in the film, since the original story contained a nearly all female cast. Gans and Avary added Christopher's character (named after Gans) and subplot and the script was approved.[7]

The film was greenlit on September 19, 2003, and was filmed in both Brantford and Hamilton[10] as well as on soundstages in Toronto in 2005 and on location in Alma College[11]. The film is considered a France-Canada-Japan co-production. Later, American studio Sony bought the distribution rights for $14 million for the United States and Latin America to be released under its TriStar genre film subsidiary.[12]

In order to maintain the feel of the games, Gans had the sound designer of the original Silent Hill, Akira Yamaoka, flown to the set several times.[13] Additionally, Gans had a forty inch television brought onto the set, to which he attached a PlayStation 2; Gans then played the original Silent Hill on the system so that the actors and cinematographers could see how Gans wanted to emulate various camera angles and movements.[13]

The movie was filmed in the Super 35 film format, except the scenes with the darkness, which were filmed in high-definition video,[14] because of its ability to cleanly capture light and digitally manipulate it in post production. The film contains around 107 different sets[15] specifically used to represent the different versions of the town. The bipedal creatures in the film were played by professional actors or dancers covered in latex and makeup. After filming, over 619 visual effects shots were used in the film,[16] with the most prominent uses being the fog that drenches the town, the transitions to darkness, and the insects that surround Pyramid Head. Some of the creatures were also touched up in post-production, with CGI effects such as the burning on the Grey Children, the changes in the dimensions of the Armless creature's legs, the disease that the Janitor spreads, and the barbed wire during Alessa's revenge.

Budgetary concerns caused a few scenes in the film to be rewritten. The meeting of Anna in the film had been envisioned differently. It originally featured Anna being attacked by an injured armless creature, where she is saved by Cybil and Rose. Due to budget concerns, the scene was simplified and rewritten.[7] As well, Gans stated that his original vision of the film's finale revolved around six Red Pyramids appearing inside the church, each carrying a different weapon, and slaughtering the cult members in reference to Dante's Inferno.[7] When budgetary constraints prevented this ending from being filmed, he created the new ending that revolved around the barbed wire slaying of the cult by Alessa, which was inspired by the erotic anime Legend of the Overfiend.[7]

Director Christophe Gans describes the concept of the town's connection to the child Alessa and the cult, "It's a town of people trapped in dark dreams, and she inflicts onto the town what those people did to her body. That is, to me, the meaning of the darkness. The appearance of the town is corrupted in the way that her own flesh was wounded."[17] "It's interesting because the town itself mirrors this fractured psychology—different dimensions, different doubles of the same person."

In speaking about the creatures in Silent Hill, Gans states, "these monsters are [damned], with the poetic direction of the term: they are a little like the Japanese phantoms, i.e. residues of forgotten feelings as strong as hatred or [guilt]."[6] "The monsters in the game are not really monsters, but rather a mockery of human beings. The real monsters are the people, the cultists who tortured Alessa. When I approached the film, I knew that it was impossible to represent the monsters as simply beasts that jump on you."[17]

Reception

Advanced screenings of Silent Hill were not given to critics by the distributor, and so no reviews could be printed until after the movie's release.[18] Metacritic's average critic's score is 30 out of 100.[19] Rotten Tomatoes reports a 29% rating on the review aggregator, based on 89 reviews [20][21].

James Berardinelli of ReelViews gave the film a mildly positive review, awarding it two and a half stars (out of four). Berardinelli said "the film is overlong, with too many unnecessary scenes" and that "a lot of the movie seems like pointless running around", but added that the film "looks great" and that "it packs in a few scary moments and offers a nicely ambiguous conclusion."[22] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film one and a half stars (out of four), calling it "an incredibly good-looking film", but said that he "did not understand the story" and criticized how "all through the movie, characters are pausing in order to offer arcane back-stories and historical perspectives and metaphysical insights and occult orientations."[23]

Don R. Lewis of Film Threat praised the film's visuals but said "this entire film is downright confusing and not in an intriguing way", calling it "the best-looking bad film I've ever seen."[24] Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a score of D+, saying that "a few of the images are startling" but "Silent Hill is mostly paralyzing in its vagueness."[25]

Dennis Harvey of Variety said that "above-average interest is generated for a time by [the] elaborate visual package", but "in the end, Silent Hill degenerates into an overblown replay of all those Twilight Zone and Stephen King stories in which outsiders stumble upon a time-warped location from which there's no escape."[26] Nathan Lee of the New York Times said, "It begins as a quest, develops into a ghost-town mystery, devolves into a preposterous cautionary tale about witchcraft and religious fundamentalism, and wraps up like the outrageously overwrought fantasy of a movie nerd obsessed with horror who has been given obscene amounts of money to adapt a video game."[27]

The film opened in 2,932 theaters and earned $20 million domestically on its opening weekend and opened at number one at the US box office. As of January 3, 2007 the film has grossed $46 million domestically and $97 million total worldwide.[1]

According to The New York Daily News, the film's poster of a mouthless girl was the subject of some vandalism in New York City, Los Angeles and elsewhere, with many malefactors drawing cartoon mouths (smiling, screaming, sporting vampire fangs, etc.) or placing stickers where her mouth would be.[28]

Silent Hill is in the top 10 video game film adaptations listing on Box Office Mojo (from 1980 to present). Silent Hill is at #7, behind #6, Resident Evil: Extinction which grossed domestically $50 million.[29]

Release

The film was released to theaters on April 21, 2006 in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Ireland. France, Belgium, Hungary, and Greece also saw April releases. The film was later released in 19 other countries in 2006 which include Russia, Germany, Spain, Italy, Japan, and Mexico.

DVD

On August 22, 2006, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and TriStar Pictures released the DVD, Blu-Ray, and UMD versions of the film in North America. The DVD and Blu-Ray were released in both Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35:1 and Pan and Scan versions and both included a Dolby Digital 5.1 audio track.[30] The releases also included a number of special features, such as film previews and a six part making-of Silent Hill documentary. The film was also released on UMD for Sony's PlayStation Portable on August 22, 2006. There are no special features but the disc includes a 1.78 widescreen format, Dolby Digital 2.0, and subtitles. An HD DVD was released in Germany by Concorde Home Entertainment on August 22, 2007. It contains the film encoded in the VC-1 video codec and also has the main audio track in DTS-HD. It retains the film aspect ratio of 2.35:1.

Music

The score to the film consists almost entirely of music from Akira Yamaoka's soundtracks to the original four games in the series.[31] The only other piece of music used in the film is Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire. Yamaoka's scores were arranged by film composer Jeff Danna (Resident Evil: Apocalypse, The Boondock Saints), with some tracks appearing in almost identical form to their in-game counterparts, while others were recreated entirely.

Connection to games

The film's storyline is loosely adapted from the first Silent Hill game, in which a lone parent searches for his/her adopted daughter after a car crash in Silent Hill. Also adapted into the movie is the conspicuous town cult, as well as the characters Harry Mason (Rose Da Silva), Cheryl (Sharon), Cybil Bennet, Alessa Gillespie and her mother Dahlia (split into two characters, Dahlia and the town cult leader Christabella). The Mumblers ('Grey Children' in the film) and Creepers are also featured.

Most of the monsters in the film are directly taken from or inspired by the creatures in Silent Hill 2. These are the Lying Figure ("Armless Man"), Bubble Head Nurses ("Dark Nurses") and Creepers (unnamed), as well as Pyramid Head.

Silent Hill 3 is a direct sequel to the first game; as such, they share various characters and events which are discussed or brought up in both games. References to Silent Hill 3 include: a spray-painting near the beginning of the movie, as Rose pauses under an overpass, which reads 'Cheryl and Wolf' (a reference to Cheryl Mason and Claudia Wolf), the appearence of the Three Halos symbol used in the game for checkpoints (in the scene where Alessa is shown scribbling furiously) and Sharon's line to Cybil "Don't talk to strangers", which mimicks Heather's meeting of Douglas Cartland at the beginning of the game.

The "real" Silent Hill

Main article: Centralia, Pennsylvania

Screen writer Roger Avary states about Silent Hill that:

"the base idea was that this is not a haunted house, it's a haunted town, y'know, separate from our reality, but it also exists within our reality. So you effectively become a ghost during your time there. And it's a very terrifying emotion, that you are a ghost of yourself. Frankly I think it's a theme that's followed me."'

In researching the different elements of Silent Hill, Avary was inspired when he heard of Centralia, Pennsylvania, and decided to base the film on it. The population of the town has dwindled from over 1,000 residents in 1981 to 9 in 2007,[32] as a result of a 47-year-old mine fire burning beneath the borough.

In 1962, an exposed vein of coal ignited, possibly due to the burning of garbage at the borough landfill. Attempts to extinguish the fire were unsuccessful; the fire is still burning and will continue to do so for the indefinite future. Adverse health effects were reported by several people due to the carbon monoxide produced.

In 1984, Congress allocated more than $42 million for relocation efforts. Most of the residents accepted buyout offers and moved. Today a handful of occupied homes remain in Centralia. Most of the buildings have been razed, and at casual glance the area now appears to be a meadow with several paved streets through it, and some areas are being filled with new-growth forest.

Sequel

It is confirmed by director Christophe Gans that a sequel is "officially ordered and well on the way."[7]

On December 20, 2006, in an interview in dvdrama.com, Silent Hill Director Christophe Gans announced that Sony has officially ordered another installment of Silent Hill. Gans also stated that he'd like to come back to the franchise, if his current commitment to Onimusha doesn't bar him from participating. In the event that Gans isn't available to direct the film personally, he recommended that it be helmed by another European director, preferably a fellow Frenchman. Gans also confirmed that Roger Avary will be back to write the script. An English language translation of Gans' interview can be found on GameSpot.

As of April 2007, Producer Don Carmody has stated that a screenplay is slowly being developed and that "[Gans is] involved pretty heavily in another project right now" and will likely not return as director.[33] Gans has stated that he will stay close to the film's production regardless of his status as director. It is confirmed that the film will retain the visual look of the first film.[7]

In July 2007, Avary said that he would not be returning to collaborate on Silent Hill 2 on the account that Gans would not be returning, either. The sequel will continue in development without Avary or Gans.[34]

On May 12, 2009, Sony Pictures registered the domain name silenthill2.net.[35]

On September 15, 2009, Sony Pictures announced that Roger Avary and Samuel Hadida were officially signed to the project and that Silent Hill 2 would begin filming next year after the filming of the new Resident Evil movie.[36][37]

Production could possibly be delayed due to writer Roger Avary being sentenced to a year in a US prison.[38]

According to producer Don Carmody the sequel will be more accessible to the movie-going public, commenting,

"Silent Hill is not a blockbuster game like Resident Evil or the other games out there. It's a connoisseurs' game. It has its own, rabid fan base. They're not cheap, these things. You have to appeal not only to the gamers, you have to appeal to a wider audience."

Carmody also stated the film will be set 'years later' with the main character 'much older'.[39]

On May 05, 2010, Don Carmody stated that filming was hopefully to begin in late Spring in Toronto.[40]

In August 2010 Carmody said the sequel had "stalled" due to Avary's imprisonment but that he still wants to make Silent Hill 2 and has a basic outline for it.[41]

See also

References

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  2. ↑ Haynes, Jeff (2008-05-15). "Silent Hill Homecoming Hands-on". IGN. http://uk.ps3.ign.com/articles/874/874245p2.html. Retrieved 2008-10-09. 
  3. ↑ Sterling, Jim (2008-08-20). "New Silent Hill: Rubbish Pyramid Head confirmed (also, November release)". Does it Suck? (Destructoid.com). http://www.destructoid.com/new-silent-hill-rubbish-pyramid-head-confirmed-also-november-release--100409.phtml. Retrieved 2008-10-27. 
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  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Ferry, IIan (2006-04-02). "Master Class Silent Hill (French)". Ecranlarge. http://www.ecranlarge.com/interview-282.php. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 Prin, Kevin (2006-12-22). "INTERVIEW: CHRISTOPHE GANS (SILENT HILL) PARTIE 1 (French)". DVDRama. http://www.dvdrama.com/news.php?18185. 
  8. ↑ Douglas, Edward (2006-04-20). "Exclusive: Director Christophe Gans". ComingSoon. http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=14165. 
  9. ↑ Gans, Christophe (2006-03-10). "Silent Hill – Notes from the director Christophe Gans – "On Preserving and Contributing to the Mythology of the Games, On Interpreting Silent Hill's Monsters"". Sony Pictures. http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/silenthill/productiondiary/archives/. 
  10. ↑ "Internet Movie Database – List of Films shot in Hamilton, Ontario". http://www.imdb.com/List?endings=on&&locations=Hamilton,+Ontario,+Canada. Retrieved 2008-01-29. 
  11. ↑ http://www.almacollege.20m.com/photopages/silentHill.htm
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  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Interview with Akira Yamaoka
  14. ↑ Wilson, Stacy (2005-07-17). ""Silent Hill" Interview with director Christophe Gans". About. http://horror.about.com/od/movierelated/a/int_sh_gans.htm. 
  15. ↑ Thorpe, Valarie (2005-07-17). "Really Scary Visits the Set of Silent Hill". Really Scary. http://www.reallyscary.com/setvisit_silenthill.asp. 
  16. ↑ Bielik, Alain (2006-04-21). "Silent Hill: Nothing Quiet About These Horrifying VFX". VFXWorld. http://www.vfxworld.com/?sa=adv&code=319b255d&atype=articles&id=2858. 
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Bettenhausen, Shane (2006-02-23). "Silent Hill Movie Interview: The Director's Cut". 1UP. http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=6605116&publicUserId=1002415. 
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  19. ↑ Silent Hill (2006): Reviews
  20. ↑ Silent Hill – Movie Reviews, Trailers, Pictures – Rotten Tomatoes
  21. ↑ Silent Hill – Movie Reviews, Trailers, Pictures – Rotten Tomatoes
  22. ↑ Review by ReelViews
  23. ↑ Review by Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times, April 21, 2006
  24. ↑ Review by Don R. Lewis Film Threat, April 24, 2006
  25. ↑ Review by Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly, April 25, 2006
  26. ↑ Review by Dennis Harvey Variety, April 21, 2006
  27. ↑ Review by Nathan Lee New York Times, April, 2006
  28. ↑ Dziemianowicz, Joe (2006-04-12). "Read my lips, a film poster inspires self-expression". New York Daily News. http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/entertainment/2006/04/12/2006-04-12_read_my_lips___a_film_poster.html. 
  29. ↑ Box Office Mojo Video Game Adaptations List
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  31. ↑ http://www.silenthillmemories.net/music/shm_csts_en.htm
  32. ↑ Couch, Stephen. Presentation at Eastern Section meeting of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers, June 2007
  33. ↑ "Silent Hill 2 News". Shock Til You Drop. 2007-04-22. http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=101. 
  34. ↑ Ryan Rotten (2007-07-18). "EXCL: Avary Skips Trip to Silent Hill 2". ShockTillYouDrop.com. http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=804. Retrieved 2007-07-18. 
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  36. ↑ [1]
  37. ↑ Silent Hill Sequel Official
  38. ↑ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/28/pulp-fiction-writer-roger_n_372651.html Roger Avary jailed for tweeting
  39. ↑ http://www.videogamer.com/news/silent_hill_film_sequel_to_be_more_accessible.html
  40. ↑ http://www.fearnet.com/news/interviews/b19050_resident_evil_afterlife_set_visit.html
  41. ↑ http://www.destructoid.com/silent-hill-2-film-stalled-screenplay-not-finished-181234.phtml

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