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Silent Hill2006

Name: Silent Hill
Genre: Supernatural, Demonic & Possession, Monster & Creature, Splatter & Gore
Released: 2006-04-21
Rating: 6

“We've been expecting you.”

Directed by Christophe Gans

6.0

Crypt Score

Blended from 4 sources

IMDb 6.5Rotten Tomatoes 34%Metacritic 31TMDB 6.6

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Year

2006

Runtime

125 min

Box Office

Budget

$50,000,000

Revenue (worldwide)

$100,605,135

Domestic

$46,982,632

🏆 8 nominations total

The premise

Rose, a desperate mother, takes her adopted daughter, Sharon, to the town of Silent Hill in an attempt to cure her of her ailment. After a violent car crash, Sharon disappears, and Rose embarks on a horrific journey to get her back and begins to uncover the truth behind the apocalyptic disaster that burned the town 30 years earlier.

Horror Vault's take

When a mother follows her sleepwalking adopted daughter to the fog-shrouded ghost town of Silent Hill, a catastrophic accident leaves her stranded and her child vanished. What begins as a desperate search becomes a descent into a nightmarish alternate reality populated by grotesque creatures and haunted by a decades-old act of communal violence. Layered with symbolism and steeped in dread, the film translates the iconic video game's oppressive atmosphere into a visually striking cinematic nightmare. Answers are buried deep in the town's ash-scorched history — and they are not pretty.

Content: Graphic Violence And Gore, Disturbing Creature Imagery, Child Abuse And Molestation Themes, Child Murder, Torture And Sadism, Religious Extremism, Barbed Wire Violence, Witch Burning