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:	post by xmikex cantlogin at 2006-04-22 17:07:17

I have never played the game, and I hate horror movies.

Nevertheless, I loved this movie. The cheese did leak through on a number of parts, and a lot of the dialogue was forced. Also a number of times I felt as though I was watching a rendered scene in a video game as opposed to a movie.

HOWEVER, this movie was visually, and conceptually brilliant. The visuals were absolutely surreal. I ususally cringe at over used digital effects, and weak attempts at surrealism. Silent Hill is what decades of digital effects in film has been leading up to. Plain and simple.

I also did not see any cheap horror film tricks. So many contemporary horror films just rely on an hour and a half's worth of long quiet pauses broken up by loud noises (and you're an asshole if you're actually scared by that because if you're older than 8 you should know it's coming). There was no overwhelming, commercial sound track trying to take over the movie either. And aside from the almost hilariously cheesy archetypal "sexy cop" character, it really wasn't just a poor excuse to show t & a.

Honestly, I think this movie has made almost every horror film in the past 2 decades look foolish. I think it totally subverted the whole genre and I hope someone follows this lead.

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