Silent Hill: Revelations

[psylockolussus]

I can't wait to watch this movie!

 

[Rodrigo90]

I understand your point. I can't wait to read the whole story!

Thank you my friend

SH4 is awesome.

It's the most terrifying one to me. It's kind of like the The Cell, which was great, but I just can't watch lol

It's scary to know you're in the mind and dreams of a killer, that starts emerging with the real world, which was a great new take on the whole Alessa nightmare coming to life. Not many people caught on to that. So if you failed, Ashfield becomes the new Silent Hill. Homecoming used that with Shepard's Glen. That was good writing there.

I can play Silent Hill 1, 2 and 3 back to back. But 4, I have to switch it off occasionally in gameplay and do something positive lol

Here's a topic. What and where was the first time any of you guys played Silent Hill for the first time?

I was 9 or 10 when I completed the first game. Had no effect on me........just whenever I see a hospital I immediately think of Alchemilla. I'm scarred for life

 

[Naked Shia]

Thank you my friend

It's the most terrifying one to me. It's kind of like the The Cell, which was great, but I just can't watch lol

It's scary to know you're in the mind and dreams of a killer, that starts emerging with the real world, which was a great new take on the whole Alessa nightmare coming to life. Not many people caught on to that. So if you failed, Ashfield becomes the new Silent Hill. Homecoming used that with Shepard's Glen. That was good writing there.

I can play Silent Hill 1, 2 and 3 back to back. But 4, I have to switch it off occasionally in gameplay and do something positive lol

Here's a topic. What and where was the first time any of you guys played Silent Hill for the first time?

I was 9 or 10 when I completed the first game. Had no effect on me........just whenever I see a hospital I immediately think of Alchemilla. I'm scarred for life

Silent Hill 4 was my first experience with the saga. I played it back in 2006, and saw the movie in theater at the same time. I was 21 years old then.

SH 4 is the scariest to me. I had to stop playing sometimes, because it was too scary. The story is indeed awesome, and so is the atmosphere. I understand why people who already played SH 1 to 3 were disappointed with this one, as it's a really different beast. but at the same time, it's as creepy and deep as the other ones. It's a hell lot deeper than SH 3 too.

Then I played Homecoming, Origins, SH 1, Sh 2, Sh 3 and shattered memories. I loved all of them. Origins is probably the one I like the less. It's good, but it's not surprising.

Unlike a lot of people, I really like homecoming. It's flawed, but it's really interesting. the plot is engaging.

I also read most of the silent hill comics, save for past life. I still have to play downpour.

 

[ShadowBoxer]

I never played Silent Hill 1 ( but I know the story) but I played Silent Hill 2-4 half of homecoming and haven't got around to playing downpour. Silent Hill 2-4 freaked me out the most. Playing those games at night with my turtle beach headset added to the creepiness. Silent hill games just had a way to disturb or freak you out!

Anyway can't wait for this movie it looks good! I loved Silent Hill 3 and the chick who plays Heather is spot on. It's going to have done stiff competition at the box office though mainly from Paranormal Activity 4. Also my friend said the Silent Hill maze at Universal Studios is creepy as hell.

 

[ShadowBoxer]

I am hoping this movie is decent. The first movie wasn't that bad (even though I hated it when it first came out). The previews for this have my hyped! Anyone else looking forward to seeing it this weekend?

 

[War Party]

Sat in on the panel at NYCC just so I could get good seats for the Venture Bros panel. The footage they showed looked pretty decent and the 3D was pretty good. It might be good.

 

[TheDreamMaster]

Even though no legitimate critics have reviewed it yet, several reviwers around the ent are posting bad reviews for the film.

One of the few I actually took stock in was pretty negative as well, minor spoilers, so read at yourt own risk: http://wolfinagorillasuit.blogspot.mx/2012/10/movie-review-silent-hill-revelation-3d_24.html

 

[Octoberist]

I'm not surprised. THE CGI looks awful to boot.

 

[ShadowBoxer]

The reviewer bascially said this movie was worst than RE Retribution WOW, I find hard to believe that this movie is THAT bad... lol. I am still gonna see it this weekend at the cheap movie theater near me.

 

[Octoberist]

We'll see. I mean, there's no reviews out and the movie had a hell of a time finding a distributor.

 

[Roose Bolton]

It has Sean Bean so that's good enough for me.

 

[Warhammer]

Even though no legitimate critics have reviewed it yet, several reviwers around the ent are posting bad reviews for the film.

One of the few I actually took stock in was pretty negative as well, minor spoilers, so read at yourt own risk: http://wolfinagorillasuit.blogspot.mx/2012/10/movie-review-silent-hill-revelation-3d_24.html

It's not surprising. The first one had terrible reviews, too. People who liked the first one will more than likely like this one. For those that didn't, don't bother wasting money in the theater.

 

[warhorse78]

Yeah, I liked the first one. And like Oberon Sexton said, Sean Bean is in it, and he's awesome.

 

[nocomics]

I was never really a SH fan at all, never really played the games, but was interested in the movie. I thought the first one was pretty good so I'm up for the second one.
Visually the first one was well done imo and I loved the transformation of the scenes from normal to hell'ish,plus the sirens added that extra tense moment.

 

[Naked Shia]

I really liked the first one, despite its flaws. Bassett obviously care for the material, and deathwatch was quite good. I'm quite confident.

 

[Mike_D202]

What I liked hearing was that the director of the sequel wanted to keep the same atmosphere from the first film, so he brought back the original composer for the music and tried his best to keep the same imagery. It looks a little more action-y than the first which is a little off putting but I'm still going to see it. SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!

 

[Slushy]

I loved the first film even if the ending was such a great downer.

I'm surprised they didn't do a re-release to tie-in with the sequel since the Blu-Ray is barebones. I guess I'll just have to import it.

Definitely watching this this weekend!

It has Sean Bean so that's good enough for me.

This!

 

[Wolfwood]

If I hear Sean Bean manages to survive Silent Hill, then I'm definitely going to watch it.

 

[TheDreamMaster]

Off to see it right now!

 

[HopeOfTheFuture]

I need spoilers!

 

[Naked Shia]

Nooooooooooooooooo!!!!

 

[TheDreamMaster]

I'm going to post my review I posted from another forum.

Well, I'm back. For those who don't want to read too much, I'd give it around a 6 out of 10.

I'm probably gonna end up echoing a few people, but I'm taking all this from what I was thinking during my viewing. Where do I start? I didn't hate it. I went in expecting to be extremely disappointed, but I came out feeling ok.about it. It wasn't a horrible film to me.

I'll start with the acting. Honestly, I thought it was really bad. Not all of it mind you, but there was quite a bit of of cringe worthy moments. Vincent felt extremely awkward at all times. For what should have been a touching scene

Spoiler

Rhada Mitchell was so stilted, and her dialogue was worse. I couldn't stand the "my love" stuff.

Sean Bean was ok. Adelaide Clemens as Heather, I admit, was actually pretty decent, but she was given some iffy dialogue. The actress playing Claudia was alright, but we don't get to see too much of her. And lastly Malcom McDowell was...well Malcom McDowell. Pretty good, but quite over the top.

I think the story is where I have my biggest problems. I kind of fell it was all over the place. I appreciate that Bassett tried to do the story of SH3, I loved the nods we got. Problem is, it just doesn't work.

Spoiler

So we know the Order wants Heather back because she is the key to removing the darkness from Silent Hill...which I thought was removed when Sharon and Alessa rejoined at the end of the first film...which apparently didn't happen. But we do get to find out how Sharon came back to Christopher/Harry. How Rose figured that out, we'll never know. So again, the Order wants Sharon back to join with Alessa because Alessa was burned to prove herself as the vessel to birth God. Ok...well at least they were trying to get the game storyline right here. The God would have awakended and removed the darkness and cleansed the world.

The problem I have with the spoilered part is that it isn't really talked about. We get some exposition early on, we get some more before entering the town, and we get the expostion at the end. Again, I didn't actually hate the story, it just comes off as being very convuluted.

I'm not going to analyze the chracters too much. Heather is pretty close to the game. Vincent is nothing like his game counterpart. We don't get too much of Sean Bean but he's pretty close to the first film. Same goes for Dahlia. Every other new chraacter, Douglas, Claudia, Leonard, we don't really get to know long enough to learn about their movie counterparts. I know a lot of people debated in the other thread, but I really feel this film should have been longer, if only to give us time to breath and let us get to know more about these chraacters.

I thought the set design was really good. As for scares, I wish we'd got more like the mannequin scene. It was a part of the film that really amnaged to build suspense, although it needed a better payoff. I really feel this film need to be longer. Had it been 108 minutes instead of 94, I feel like it would have given enough time for some extra character development, and a little time to settle and build suspense like the first film. Given that there are a number of stills that didn't show up in the film, I'm very certain it was either hacked up quite a bit due to the studio, or to fit a certain runtime. I'm hoping for a director's cut that might give us a better film.

I'm kind of torn on how the power of the town was portrayed. Since the games establish the town holds power of its own, I am ok for the most part, but the movie really likes to play it like everything is directly connected to Alessa, so the fact that it is "a place of souls" and stuff sort of doesn't hold water here, but I'll let it slide. That also begs the question of, in the first film it was clear that Rose and Sharon entered the town because of Sharon, whereas Christopher couldn't enter. However, a very minor chracter at one point claims that she got there because "they took a wrong turn into the fog." Didn't think it worked that way.

Also, not the last five minutes, but basically the ending to the film is the biggest bit of fan service ever shoved into a video game film. It really, really does not fit a Silent Hill film in the least, but in a way, it is also kind of awesome.

Speaking of the ending (don't read this if you want to catch some nods for yourself.)

Spoiler

The last five minutes are full of nice nods for fans, and huge sequel bait. First off, Harry staying in Silent Hill to look for his wife. It screams Silent Hill 2 but from a very different perspective. Secondly, Travis has a cameo and mentions "having not been that way in a long time." Lastly, as Travis and Heather and Vincent leave, we see police escorting a prison but through the road leading into Silent Hill, suggesting Downpour.

I have to say, that was pretty awesome. There were a lot of other references to the games, and I liked trying to find them.

Overall I didn't hate it. It was pretty decent but could have been so much better.

 

[TheDreamMaster]

I need spoilers!

For those who want spoilers, I'll give a long overview of the film.

Spoiler

The film opens on a dream sequence of Heather/Sharon in the Lakeside Amusement Park. She ends up on the carousel and is confronted by Alessa who proceeds to burn her to death. She wakes up and we get a little backstory that she and her father have been on the run from something and are just moving into another new house.

Chris/Harry sends her off to her first day of school. On the way she sees a bum who looks twisted to her at first, and ends up bumping into private investigator Douglas. He tries to question her but she flees.

At school we are introduced to Vincent, another new classmate. Heather leaves and begins to hallucinate memories of Alessa's childhood as well as a twisted school hallway with a lying figure monster that chases her. Vincent ends up showing up to snap her out of it.

We get flashback from Harry as to how Sharon/Heather was returned to him. Apparently Rose located a seal, only half of a two part medallion, that allowed her to send Sharon out of the fog world. She tells Harry through a mirror, and warns him not to return to Silent Hill.

Outside school, Douglas waits for Heather.This prompts her to call her father and tell him she thinks she's being followed. He tells her to head to the mall and he'll meet her there. Upon telling her, someone tries to break through the front door, so Harry heads out the back, only to still be taken by someone. The film cuts to Heather at the mall, who again begins seeing things twist into dark versions of themselves, including a clown and a child's birthday party. Douglas appears again and Heather fless, seeing increasingly strange things as she goes. Douglas follows, eventually confronting her in a dark alley where he tells her he was hired to find her, not because Harry mudered a man in their previous home, but because the cult, The Order of Valtiel, hired him to locate her. Douglas realized that he was working for something not quite right, and tries to warn Heather. In the ever twisting world around Heather, a blades monster shows up and chases the pair, eventually kiling Douglas. At this point Heather manages to return to reality, and quickly leaves, leaving her bloodstained jacket behind.

Outside the police find Douglas and take his body away, also finding Heather's jacket. Vincent appears and she leaves with him before anyone can recognize her. The two walk to Heather's house, Vincent talks about his grandfather Leonard, who is confined to a mental institution by his daughter, Claudia. Heather stopping to observe several cloaked figures that fade in and out on a bridge. Vincent claims not to see them and they continue. Heather leaves Vincent and goes inside the house, only to find a Halo of the Sun and the words "Come to Silent Hill" written in blood on her wall. She screams and Vincent come sback to find out why she did. Heather retrieves a box from her father's closet full of information on her birth, on the town, and the cult. As she begins reading the police arrive, so the two leave out the back. they take Vincent's car and head out for Silent Hill.

Heather reads several notes regarding the Order, who despite being seemingly Christian in the first film, actually burned Alessa as a test. If she survived, she would be used as the vessel to birth the God of the Order to cleanse the world. The notes also tell of Pyramid Head, Alessa's protector. Lastly, she finds a note addressed to her (as Sharon), which tells of Harry's attempts to hide her, his reasons for lying to her about her past, and how she should not go to Silent Hill under any circumstances. After hearing the note, Vincent decides he is too tired, and convinces Heather to stop for the night at Jack's Inn, not far outside Silent Hill. She protests, but Vincent convinces her to stop. In the room he pleads with her not to go, teling her it is a terrible idea. Heather doesn't want to listen, only wanting to find her father. Vincent then reveals himself as a child of The Order, sent to find Heather and return her to Silent Hill. He reveals however that although he was taught to hate Alessa and Heather, he doesn't see ehr as evil and pleads with ehr to leave. He tells her the other half to the seal that brought her back, and that is the key to saving her father is with his grandfather, in Brookhaven Asylum in Silent Hill. Before she can do anything, Heather's anger brings the darkness, which eats away the hotel room and transforms everything around them. The disc monster returns and takes Vincent. Heather is knocked unconscious.

She awakes in the morning, and realizes she has to go to the town. She sets out into the for. We get the shot sof her going past the famous Silent Hill sign. Once in town, she sees several people staring at her through windows. Eventually she approaches the church, where she meets Dahlia. Dahlia tells her more about Alessa and who Heather is, before the sirens blare and the darkness begins overtaking the town. Almost all the rest of the film is spent in the dark Silent Hill. Heather runs from the transforming town into a mannequinn warehouse. She happens upon one woman on a table who is transforme dinto a mannegquinn before her eyes. A second is wrapped in some sort of web, and Heather manages to free her. Upon freeing her, the mannequinn spider monster shown in the trailers wakes up and chases the two. They weave through several shelves in an attempt to reach the exit. The exit is locked, so the move towards a grated vent. The monster knocks a shelf ove ron the two, and tries to grab them. Heather makes it but the other woman is pulled away screaming by the monster.

After escaping to the outside, she finds herself near Brookhaven, and decides to find Leonard. She searches files at the front desk and locates his room, as well as takes a key. A prisoner monster attacks her, and she manages to shoot it. She continues on and finds Leonard, a blind old man chained inside his room. He tells her about himself, and that his grandson has also just been brought into the asylum. He asks to hold the seal so he can tell her what it is. When he gets it however, he jams it inside himself, gaining his sight and transforming into a large monster. He knocks Heather out and breaks out of his cell, taking Heather with him. As he carries her, she wakes up, She sees the complete seal inside the hole in his body. She reaches in and rips out the seal, causing Leonard to drop her and die.

Two Order members wheel Vincent into a room full of nurses. Apaprently, they are no sensitive to noise rather than light. The nurses murder the Order members, leaving Vicnent strapped to the table. If you've seen teh Comic-con clip, you know this scene. Heather rescues Vincent, and he agrees to take her to the Amusment Park, where the Order has a secret sanctuary underneath. They go in together, but Vincent decides to use himself as a distraction and lead several members away. He kisses Heathe rbefore he goes. Heather than makes her way to the carosuel. Pyramid Head is chaine dinto the machine that lowers it into the sanctuary. The Order members surround it, but a fire starts and sets many of them on fire. The dark Alessa shows up, ready to rejoin with Heather and destroy any good left inside ehr. In a very strange scene, Heather rejoins with Alessa by overpowering the evil, the good prevailing and making Heather the dominant Alessa. After this she arrives inside the sanctuary. Harry is chained to a alrge statue of Valtiel in the room. She meets Claudia, leader of this sect of the Order who tells her she is to be the vessel of God. Heather hands her the seal, and tells it to reveal her true nature. Claudia's skin bruns away revealing the blade monster. The rest of the Order flees and the monster gets ready to attack. However, sensing Heather in dnager, Pyramid Head appears and begins to fight the blade monster. The Blade monster gets some decent hits in, but eventually Pyramid Head prevails, slicing off the Blade monster's head. Heather, Vincent, and Harry escape.

The darkness finally leaves, and returns them to the fog world. The trio prepare to leave, but Harry tells Heather that he intends to stay. He believes Rose is still alive in Silent Hill somewhere. Heather tries to stay and help, but he tells her to leave, wishing a normal life for her.He says that even without Alessa, Silent Hill has a power, that it is a place of lost souls. Earlier Vicnent mentioned that that different people have different nightmares in the town. With that Harry leaves into the fog and disappears. Heather and Vincent leave, eventually making it to the highway outside of town. They manage to stop a truck driver, Travis Grady, who tells them he "hasn't been this way in a long time." They truck pulls away into the distance. The camera lingers as a police car, escorting a Toluca County prison bus, drives by past the Sielnt Hill sign as the fog slowly creeps back from the town.

I know I missed a number of details, but I tried to hit all the major points. I liked the film, it is kind of convuluted, and really needs more polish and some extra time to develop, but for what it is, it isn't bad.

 

[Naked Shia]

I'm going to post my review I posted from another forum.

Well, I'm back. For those who don't want to read too much, I'd give it around a 6 out of 10.

I'm probably gonna end up echoing a few people, but I'm taking all this from what I was thinking during my viewing. Where do I start? I didn't hate it. I went in expecting to be extremely disappointed, but I came out feeling ok.about it. It wasn't a horrible film to me.

I'll start with the acting. Honestly, I thought it was really bad. Not all of it mind you, but there was quite a bit of of cringe worthy moments. Vincent felt extremely awkward at all times. For what should have been a touching scene

Spoiler

Rhada Mitchell was so stilted, and her dialogue was worse. I couldn't stand the "my love" stuff.

Sean Bean was ok. Adelaide Clemens as Heather, I admit, was actually pretty decent, but she was given some iffy dialogue. The actress playing Claudia was alright, but we don't get to see too much of her. And lastly Malcom McDowell was...well Malcom McDowell. Pretty good, but quite over the top.

I think the story is where I have my biggest problems. I kind of fell it was all over the place. I appreciate that Bassett tried to do the story of SH3, I loved the nods we got. Problem is, it just doesn't work.

Spoiler

So we know the Order wants Heather back because she is the key to removing the darkness from Silent Hill...which I thought was removed when Sharon and Alessa rejoined at the end of the first film...which apparently didn't happen. But we do get to find out how Sharon came back to Christopher/Harry. How Rose figured that out, we'll never know. So again, the Order wants Sharon back to join with Alessa because Alessa was burned to prove herself as the vessel to birth God. Ok...well at least they were trying to get the game storyline right here. The God would have awakended and removed the darkness and cleansed the world.

The problem I have with the spoilered part is that it isn't really talked about. We get some exposition early on, we get some more before entering the town, and we get the expostion at the end. Again, I didn't actually hate the story, it just comes off as being very convuluted.

I'm not going to analyze the chracters too much. Heather is pretty close to the game. Vincent is nothing like his game counterpart. We don't get too much of Sean Bean but he's pretty close to the first film. Same goes for Dahlia. Every other new chraacter, Douglas, Claudia, Leonard, we don't really get to know long enough to learn about their movie counterparts. I know a lot of people debated in the other thread, but I really feel this film should have been longer, if only to give us time to breath and let us get to know more about these chraacters.

I thought the set design was really good. As for scares, I wish we'd got more like the mannequin scene. It was a part of the film that really amnaged to build suspense, although it needed a better payoff. I really feel this film need to be longer. Had it been 108 minutes instead of 94, I feel like it would have given enough time for some extra character development, and a little time to settle and build suspense like the first film. Given that there are a number of stills that didn't show up in the film, I'm very certain it was either hacked up quite a bit due to the studio, or to fit a certain runtime. I'm hoping for a director's cut that might give us a better film.

I'm kind of torn on how the power of the town was portrayed. Since the games establish the town holds power of its own, I am ok for the most part, but the movie really likes to play it like everything is directly connected to Alessa, so the fact that it is "a place of souls" and stuff sort of doesn't hold water here, but I'll let it slide. That also begs the question of, in the first film it was clear that Rose and Sharon entered the town because of Sharon, whereas Christopher couldn't enter. However, a very minor chracter at one point claims that she got there because "they took a wrong turn into the fog." Didn't think it worked that way.

Also, not the last five minutes, but basically the ending to the film is the biggest bit of fan service ever shoved into a video game film. It really, really does not fit a Silent Hill film in the least, but in a way, it is also kind of awesome.

Speaking of the ending (don't read this if you want to catch some nods for yourself.)

Spoiler

The last five minutes are full of nice nods for fans, and huge sequel bait. First off, Harry staying in Silent Hill to look for his wife. It screams Silent Hill 2 but from a very different perspective. Secondly, Travis has a cameo and mentions "having not been that way in a long time." Lastly, as Travis and Heather and Vincent leave, we see police escorting a prison but through the road leading into Silent Hill, suggesting Downpour.

I have to say, that was pretty awesome. There were a lot of other references to the games, and I liked trying to find them.

Overall I didn't hate it. It was pretty decent but could have been so much better.

Hey this is the review you posted on Silenthillforum.com

 

[TheDreamMaster]

Hey this is the review you posted on Silenthillforum.com

Indeed t: I always wondered how many people there were over here.