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Sunday, 30 April 2006
SILENT HILL
It'z based on a video game so it kinda playz out like one,but for someone like me who digz the games,but doezn't have the patience nor the thumb skillz to get past the first level on thoze gamez,the movie doez all the button pushing for ya.Even still,after throwing cluez and cuez at ya from every corner of the screen,it doezn't quite spell it all out for ya either,leaving alot up to your own conclusions and/or open for the sequel.It may throw some people off of it,but I like my horror open to interpatation.
And it'z visually awesome,even if ya don't care for the "Hellraiser meets Ring" mishmash of ideas,you can't help but really get sucked into the killer sets and atmospheric city that waz once Silent Hill.It makez one killer music video.
Yeah,if anything,if you don't go see it at the theater,wait for it to come out on dvd,then slap it into the dvd player,mute the volume and crank up some old school Goth toonz and you'll have a pretty killer sensory overload.Or maybe if they come out with a soundtrack to it,that would work too,cuz the music in the film iz very strange.Kinda industrial,yet moody-quite different,cuz it works more like a sound effects record to enhance the movie than any kind of actual music,but it workz excellently.They shoulda used it to drown out some of the dialogue tho,cuz you could make a drinking game out of how many timez the lead character sayz "don't worry,everything is going to be alright" in the film.Add two shots everytime she screams "Sharon" too.The first 20 minutes of the filmz' dialogue could be straight out of an Ozzy Osbourne yelpfest from MTV's "The Osbournes".
But ya ferget all that once the evil dead girlz,twisted zombiez,pyramid wearin' giant slalpel weilders and creepycritterjitter nurses start poppin' up.And when the wallz start melting upwardz yer in for a wild ride.
Oh,and I'm usually not disturbed by death scenes in horror filmz,cuz most of the time they're so over the top that it doezn't smack of too much realizm,but there'z a scene where a major character getz roasted alive,and it came off pretty uncomfortable for me,cuz,in most cases when witches were burned at the stake,they died of asphyxiation.And someone in the driverz seat of this scene took that into consideration.Pretty grim stuff,but in straight up horror,very few filmz today have the guts(he he)to go for the ickyicky in the realistic way.After yearz of seeing clawed corpses cracking jokes before sending someone to thier outrageous doom,it'z quite unsettling.Course it'z not more than a few minutez later it goez for the throat with outrageosnezz galore-barbed wire tentacles.
Oh well,can't win 'em all,but for the most part "Silent Hill" iz slightly above most of today'z modern horror filmz,and I dug it.
Just wonderin' how they're gonna pull off the killer stuffed bunny for the sequelz.
Ragz Rates it a:8.75
Posted by ragzdandelion
at 8:56 PM PDT
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