Constantine has a far more coherent and interesting story.

This is one freakin' creepy movie...

Unless your the kind of person who could never free yourself to fly with the dream logic, you may find Silent Hill to be the coolest portrayal of a nightmare this side of The Cell. The director's vision of a lost town in dreamland is nothing if not fantastic. In his first movie since the intensely stylish & archetypical Brotherhood of the Wolf, Christophe Gans has woven a tormented web of images into a mindtrap of subconciously connected ideas.

As to the videogame on which it's based - I've never played it. I went to the movie tonight without reading a review or anything about it, nor seeing a single trailer. As with all movies, the story was in control tonight - this was not an interactive game. But like sex, the bottom offers just as many pleasures as the top. One can enjoy being in control, but that does nothing to diminish the pleasure of being controlled. Optimally, there's lots of rolling around anyways.

I thoroughly enjoyed the work of the lead actors - especially, Radha Mitchell who's been in some cool movies in the last decade; Sean Bean, who's got the look; Deborah Kara Unger, Crash, anyone?; Laurie Holden as the leather lady cop; Jodelle Ferland as your stock creepy kid; ex-Borg Queen, Alice Krige, and many others in their dual guises.

Not your standard Hollywood action movie, not even a stock plot - nope - this puppy's a whole new breed, and a lot of the scare-and-jump horror audience isn't going to get it. This one's not looking for temporary jump scares, it's lookin' to get under your skin, sneak deep, and scare you inside when you're not expecting it.

5 out of 5.

Would you agree though that the two do share some similarities?

Could someone explain the very last scene for me?

There'safewinterpretationsgoingaround,butmyfavoriteisthatRosemadeadealwithAlessatoallowhertoexact herrevengeonthetownspeopleifshe'dallowhertoleavewithherdaughter.ButAlessadidn'twanthertoleave,so shebecamewholeagainwithSharon,thecompleteAlessa.Sowhentheyleave,RoseistakingAlessawithher,and theyremaintrappedinthepurgatoryofSilentHillforever.

AnotheristhatRoseandSharondiedintheSUVcrash,andthatCybildiedwhenshecrashesonher bike,butSeanBean'scharactersintherealworldneverfoundtheirbodiessoIdon'tagreewiththatone.

I think they are dead. It's pretty heavily implied. I figured they were dead in the first 20 minutes. Purgatory implies death. Death, in this case, means a separation from the "living world" which the character mentions near the end.

Decent imagry, the soundtrack sounded like it came from a 1990s Japanese Playstation RPG, the voice overs and the "history" was attrocious, the "townspeople" were embarassing, as was the child actor.

And I'm totally moving to West Virginia if the hot highway patrol chicks get skin tight leather uniforms.

And I don't like how the whole nighttime/daytime thing, or pyramidhead or any of the "demons" really came to nothing but a kind of empty threat.

Basically anything outside of Mitchell running around being creeped by random objects fell flat. Despite having all the ingredients for good atmosphere and a bone-chilling ride, something always came in the way of making it frightening.

Pyramidhead was probably the biggest dissapointment for me. He was no creepier then anything else, and certainly not as much as those nurses. B-

I mean, he was scary when he ripped the flesh off but I don't think he really appears after that.

Re: the nurses, she finds out quick that they are attracted to light, so why didn't she put the light in the corner then sneak past them on the other side... instead of trying to do the limbo.

Because the scene would not be suspenseful then?