Silent Hill
TriStar Pictures | Release Date: April 21, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
31
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 21 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
9
Negative:
10
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
EmpireJames Dyer
A step in the right direction for console-to-screen transitions and a twisted masterpiece of set design. Ultimately, though, it's a little too much like watching someone else play the game. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Runs out of story a good half hour before it runs out of spooky images, but it comes to a quietly chilling conclusion far more haunting than any bloody mayhem. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesJan Stuart
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. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
Silent Hill's main attraction, for genre fans, certainly, lies not in its plot nor in its characters (you could place anyone in this particular township and whatever might happen, you could be sure it'd be unnerving), but in its relentlessly nightmarish imagery. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
Recommended to those who feel "The Crucible" doesn't feature enough bodies ripped in half vertically. Others are duly warned. Read full review
40
VarietyDennis Harvey
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. Read full review
40
Chicago ReaderAndrea Gronvall
Horror maestro Christophe Gans ("Brotherhood of the Wolf") directed this feature, worth seeing for the zombie nurses who gyrate like a Bob Fosse chorus line before slicing each other to ribbons. Read full review
40
Film ThreatDon R. Lewis
As I sat through this two hour stumble through what looked like fog, I just kept thinking to myself how this might be the best looking bad film I've ever seen. Read full review
40
Village VoiceBill Gallo
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; the most horror-crazed teen may be hard-pressed to find any authentic thrills here. Read full review
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