Christophe Gans directs Jeremy Irvine, Hannah Emily Anderson and Robert Strange in this third film in the horror video game adaptation telling the standalone tale of a man who receives a mysterious letter from his lost love and is drawn to Silent Hill.

No… I haven’t seen The Bone Temple yet?! But I have gone to see this. I had a soft spot for Christophe Gans’ original Silent Hill flick from 2006. In my book it still is the best console to big screen adaptation. There are moments in it that are genuinely totalitarian nightmarish. Dread inducing and extremely disgusting. This hits those peaks around five times… briefly. There are transformations and apocalyptic stalking scenes that truly amp up the Lynchian / Yuzna atmosphere. But the story is very rote, naively blatant and once the big twist becomes obvious you still have 90 minutes of the movie ramming it down your throat like it is some transcendently mind blowing revelation. If you can switch off from everything but the icky creature moments then this is Fangoria worthy. There are very few multiplex releases this digitally ugly I’ll give a pass to. Memorably hellish.

5

Perfect Double Bill: Silent Hill (2006)

You can follow me on Letterboxd here https://letterboxd.com/ValVerdeNights/