There is 3 things that I love in this world and it is movie, video game and horror. So, naturally, when you combine 3 things that you really love, it should be the firework festival of your life, something that really beautiful, outstanding and the thing that you just can't forget. But then again, one of reality favorite hobby is to break someone hope and expectation for something that we love so we can finally realize that being a human is suck. Case and point: Silent Hill: Revelation.
Silent hill: revelation is based on a famous survival horror game with the same name. It is one of the scariest, if not the scariest, video game that ever created by mankind and also one of my favorite video game series. It managed to execute many of horror aspects like sounds, visual, characters, story and pacing in such an excellent way that it leaves the players with more than just a cheap scream created by jump scares. It is a horrifying and terrifying experiences and also a study of human psyche that might only be experienced in the medium of Video game. It is really popular in a survival horror genre and from such popularity someone had an idea to make a movie based on this game. Hence, the first Silent hill movies was made.
Before talking about Silent Hill: Revelation, lets talk a little about the first movie. The first silent hill movie was...well, actually its kinda ok for me. It mostly take the first main plot of the first game with some tweak and minor changes. Many praised the movie for its atmosphere and faithful visual that it takes from the game but criticizing it for bad writing and confusing story that just doesn't make sense in many way. Personally, the movie biggest flaw to me is that it doesn't understand about what makes silent hill is such a horror masterpiece in video games world, which is its subtlety and symbolism.
Christophe Gans, the director behind this movie clearly understand what makes silent hill become a visually scary looking game but i don't think he understand what lies behind the games visual and the meaning of it so the movie became more like a haunted house with monster than a horrifying psychological experience like it should have been. To see what i meant, lets see what many consider as the scariest monster/creature/the devils own nightmare in Silent Hill.
Exactly that.
That....thing is called Pyramid Head (P-head for short because I'm apparently that lazy to type its full name) which at first sounds like a reject characters from Toy Story movie. You can clearly see that, visually speaking, the scariest thing that the Silent Hill series can pull out doesn't look scary at all but what make it become such a memorable and terrifying experience in video game is the purpose of P-head, not what he looks like. P-head (in his original appearance before he turned into Silent Hill happy mascot) is actually a manifestation of guilt and sexual frustration from James Sunderland, the main Protagonist in Silent Hill 2. It act as a reminder, punisher and savior of James so it appearance is always full with symbolic meanings in the game and that is what made him as one of the scariest thing in video game world. Technically speaking, most people believes that Pyramid head could only exist in Silent Hill if James Sunderland is in it, yet he keeps popping out of nowhere in the Silent Hill movies and it made him looks more like Jason Vorhees with over sized triangular mask and knife rather than a disturbing symbolic manifestation like in the games. It also didn't rape anything in both movies.
You can't spell Rape without P from P-head.
When i first heard that there will be a sequel for this movie, i was actually hoping that they will at least learn from the first movie and they are going to make it with more love, subtlety and symbolic psychological message inside. I wont lie, i knew that it was like hoping for every asshole in earth to be infected with zombie virus so i can kill them with no moral burden. But again, this is reality we are talking about and oh boy did it slap me in the face really-really hard
Lets get straight to the point. Silent Hill: Revelation is really bad. It is an obvious cash grab for the studio. You will see no love both for the video game and the movie itself and it is something that deserve damnation from anyone watching it. You might think that I'm being too hysterical and hateful with this movie since i have some affection to the video game series but even for someone who doesn't play the game it is still bad by any means.
Lets get straight to the point. Silent Hill: Revelation is really bad. It is an obvious cash grab for the studio. You will see no love both for the video game and the movie itself and it is something that deserve damnation from anyone watching it. You might think that I'm being too hysterical and hateful with this movie since i have some affection to the video game series but even for someone who doesn't play the game it is still bad by any means.
Silent Hill: Revelation took place years after the event of the first Silent Hill movie where Heather Mason (Adelaide Clemens) and her adoptive father Harry Mason (Sean Bean) have spent the past few years moving from town to town and assuming different identities. Heather believes that they are on the run from the police because Harry killed a man in self-defense and that her adoptive mother Rose (Radha Mitchell) died in a car crash. In fact, Harry has been protecting her from the Order, a cult of Silent Hill, a town haunted by shifting dimensions. Rose was able to free Heather (then Sharon) from one of the alternate dimensions using one half of a talisman called the Seal of Metatron, but Rose remained trapped in Silent Hill. But after Harry is abducted by the Silent Hill Cult, Heather must now come back to Silent Hill and faces the Silent Hill cult who wants to used her as some kind of sacrifice for the medium of their god's rebirth.
Confused already? Good, because confusion is what this movie all about. It try to follow the plot of the third game in the series but failed to connect it with the confusing ending of the first movie and such a mess it is. They even try to shoehorn the characters from the the game just to make things more messed up. The story and the plot feels like there is nothing happens in it. Just a bunch of peoples talking and moving from point A to point B. Its just stuffs happening with seemingly no good connection or purpose whatsoever.
At some point, heather encounter this random-cool-looking-spider-mannequin monster webbing random naked girl in some random storage room for some random reason, then the scenes just randomly goes nowhere in the movie. No explanation on whats that monster is, what is it doing webbing random girls, and absolutely no satisfying conclusion with that plot point. The movie is just a random stuff glued together with a glue named Silent Hill.
The visual also lost its atmospheric feeling that the previous movie had. It feels like The director just played the games and just wanna make the movie looks like it without any proper transition from Video game to movie. The first Silent Hill movie is saved from critics damnation because of its visual and they managed to put some disturbing visual that surprised some viewers. The sequel, on the other hand looks cheap and dull and i don't care if its in 3D or in the matrix, either way it still bad.
Acting wise, i can't hate the actor too much because the dialogue given to them is terrible and no amount of acting skill can save the dialogue from the damnation it deserved. Most of the Actor is either trying too hard to be good or just 'F it! where's my paycheck!' level of acting. Adelaide Clemens as Heather and Kit Harington as vincent is in the trying too hard category while Sean Bean as harry, Malcolm McDowell as Leonard Wolf, and Carrie An Moss as Claudia are in the 'F it! where's my paycheck!' category.
To sum it up, Silent Hill: Revelation is terrible. I don't know what kind of audiences this movie marketed to. If its for general viewers, they will hate it because it was boring, not scary and confusing. If they made it for the Silent Hill fans, They will bombard the movie with hate E-mail, Trolling in youtube comment and sending an assassin to the director and producer house. It's bad by any means and you should avoid it in any cost.
Confused already? Good, because confusion is what this movie all about. It try to follow the plot of the third game in the series but failed to connect it with the confusing ending of the first movie and such a mess it is. They even try to shoehorn the characters from the the game just to make things more messed up. The story and the plot feels like there is nothing happens in it. Just a bunch of peoples talking and moving from point A to point B. Its just stuffs happening with seemingly no good connection or purpose whatsoever.
At some point, heather encounter this random-cool-looking-spider-mannequin monster webbing random naked girl in some random storage room for some random reason, then the scenes just randomly goes nowhere in the movie. No explanation on whats that monster is, what is it doing webbing random girls, and absolutely no satisfying conclusion with that plot point. The movie is just a random stuff glued together with a glue named Silent Hill.
And they probably use the same glue to make this monster.
The visual also lost its atmospheric feeling that the previous movie had. It feels like The director just played the games and just wanna make the movie looks like it without any proper transition from Video game to movie. The first Silent Hill movie is saved from critics damnation because of its visual and they managed to put some disturbing visual that surprised some viewers. The sequel, on the other hand looks cheap and dull and i don't care if its in 3D or in the matrix, either way it still bad.
Acting wise, i can't hate the actor too much because the dialogue given to them is terrible and no amount of acting skill can save the dialogue from the damnation it deserved. Most of the Actor is either trying too hard to be good or just 'F it! where's my paycheck!' level of acting. Adelaide Clemens as Heather and Kit Harington as vincent is in the trying too hard category while Sean Bean as harry, Malcolm McDowell as Leonard Wolf, and Carrie An Moss as Claudia are in the 'F it! where's my paycheck!' category.
To sum it up, Silent Hill: Revelation is terrible. I don't know what kind of audiences this movie marketed to. If its for general viewers, they will hate it because it was boring, not scary and confusing. If they made it for the Silent Hill fans, They will bombard the movie with hate E-mail, Trolling in youtube comment and sending an assassin to the director and producer house. It's bad by any means and you should avoid it in any cost.
Initial EL Judgement
2.0
Trapped In A Room With P-Head And Its Great Dildo.
