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  Silent Hill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The games portray Silent Hill as a small, secluded town, smothered in fog, surrounded by large hills and flanking a lake, but this could be any one of a hundred towns in the United States.
Silent Hill 3 is a direct sequel to Silent Hill: Heather, the main character in Silent Hill 3, continues the story begun by her father, Harry Mason, in the first game.
Silent Hill's gradual decline from perceived normalcy to stylized decay bears a close resemblance to the film's visual aesthetic, and Silent Hill's monsters are often seen shaking their heads rapidly from side to side in unnatural and jerky motions, a direct lift of Jacob's Ladder's visual style.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Silent_Hill   (4693 words)

  
 Silent Hill (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Silent Hill!" The sporadic episode motivates Rose to drive Sharon to the place in her drawings and in her dreams.
Like the rest of Silent Hill, the church falls into ruin as it is drawn into Alessa's nightmare, its most pronounced transformation being the falling away of the floor to reveal a pit of fire from which Alessa rises, supported by lengths of rusted barbed wire, in her hospital bed.
Silent Hill uses little computer-generated imagery, with the most notable exceptions being the fog that drenches the town, the otherworld transitions, and the insects that surround the Red Pyramid.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Silent_Hill_(film)   (6373 words)

  
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There are a few clues about her illness, with one of them being her screaming the name "Silent Hill." Being the modern folk they are, her family does some quick Googling to find out that Silent Hill is a ghost town, the victim of out-of-control coal fires that are still burning beneath the streets.
The interactions between the characters seem strained in the opening scenes, and it's hard to believe that the mother would basically abduct her daughter away from the father to explore Silent Hill.
Silent Hill, at its best, succeeds as a horror movie better than almost any other film in the genre in recent memory.
arstechnica.com /reviews/other/silenthill.ars   (630 words)

  
 Silent Hill (2006): Reviews
Silent Hill's main attraction, for genre fans, certainly, lies not in its plot nor in its characters (you could place anyone in this particular township and whatever might happen, you could be sure it'd be unnerving), but in its relentlessly nightmarish imagery.
Though Silent Hill's shoddy dialogue and incoherent story constantly irritate, several sights and scenes possess a certain surreal grandeur...Sadly, that's not enough to compensate for Silent Hill's utter lack of tension, intrigue, character development or satisfactory explanations for what the hell's happening on the screen.
Buried beneath Silent Hill’s hyper-stylized stupidity (the film looks like a collaboration between David Fincher, Trent Reznor and music video director Mark Romanek) is the hollow effort to bottle something of the zeitgeist unease surrounding religious fundamentalism.
www.metacritic.com /film/titles/silenthill   (1565 words)

  
 Review: Silent Hill - Cinematical
The fact that Silent Hill is a ghost town, long ago ravaged by a harrowing underground inferno, does little to impede Rose's conviction: There's something wrong with her little girl (whom we quickly learn is adopted) -- and Silent Hill seems to hold the answer.
Silent Hill is about as deep as the Ghost House that arrives with your local carnival every Spring, but it's presented with such a bleak, dark, and ferocious visual edge that one finds it a bit easier to forgive the flick's narrative shortcomings.
Silent Hill game used claustrophobic visuals of dark fog shrouded streets, the sense of isolation in a deserted town and creepy sounds all of which are missed by the movie which is over staged.
www.cinematical.com /2006/04/22/review-silent-hill   (5309 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Silent Hill: Computer & Video Games: Playstation Greatest Hits   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In Silent Hill, you assume the role of widower Harry Mason, who is trying to get away from the pain of his wife's loss by taking his daughter on a road trip.
Silent Hill, a very first of it's kind, and a momumental breakthrough and undertaking from Konami, unlike other companies that would not have the guts to delve this deep into the evil darkness of the mind.
Silent Hill features a variety of fears- you have the "boogeyman in the closet/sleeping with the light on" type of fear, and the other major and more dangerous "please don't make me think about death because I don't know what happens when I die" type of fear.
www.amazon.com /Silent-Hill/dp/B00001XDUB   (3453 words)

  
 UHM - Silent Hill
Sharon disappears in Silent Hill, and Rose follows what she thinks is her daughter's silhouette all over town.
A new Silent Hill clip can be found here, and a nice interviews featurette is up here.
So with Silent Hill, the cool thing is we take this world and create new designs that you haven't seen before.
www.upcominghorrormovies.com /movies/silenthill.php   (2061 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Silent Hill 4: The Room: Computer & Video Games   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Silent Hill 4 is some scary scary stuff, but that is nothing that years of therapy cannot fix.
My first reaction to previews of Silent Hill 4 was that they had run out of ideas and this was going to be a lame attempt to make this instalment a bit different.
Silent Hill 4 has rewarded me with more fear and unease than I experienced in the second and third games, and I've really fallen for the new structure.
www.amazon.com /Silent-Hill-4-The-Room/dp/B0001Y7404   (3936 words)

  
 UGO's Silent Hill Hub - The Real Silent Hill - SILENTHILL.UGO.COM
In researching the different elements of Silent Hill, screenwriter Roger Avary (Killing Zoe, The Rules of Attraction) came across the town of Centralia, Pennsylvania (it's interesting that LA moviemakers look to the deep Midwest when they're looking for something "strange" or "different").
This is certainly not unlike Silent Hill, which was left deserted since devastating coal fires ravaged the town and its people.
UGO's Silent Hill Hub is an unofficial fansite designed for devotees of Silent Hill and is not affiliated with or licensed by Konami Corporation and Sony Pictures.
silenthill.ugo.com /features/realsilenthill/default.asp   (628 words)

  
 Silent Hill
Silent Hill is visually impressive, but as with many video game adaptations, it’s plagued by inane dialogue, a muddled plot, and an overlong runtime.
Silent Hill is mostly paralyzing in its vagueness.
Structured around a series of flouts and gross-outs, Silent Hill is one long free fall through icky surrealism and underlighted nightmares.
www.rottentomatoes.com /m/silent_hill   (1090 words)

  
 Silent Hill Asylum @ PlanetPS2
Konami Digital Entertainment today officially announced the North American release of the fourth in the Silent Hill series, Silent Hill The Room, due for a simultaneous release on PlayStation 2 and Xbox in fall 2004.
Apropos for the surreal survival-horror series, Silent Hill 4 The Room stars new lead character Henry Townshend, and features an all new storyline based around the disturbing alternate reality of Silent Hill.
Silent Hill is a trademark of Konami Computer Entertainment.
www.planetps2.com /shasylum/main.html   (153 words)

  
 Silent Hill - Kotaku
Silent Hill should be a game of eerie psychological horror and depravity, not a simulation of doing chores for my mom.
Silent Hill uses little computer-generated imagery, with the most notable exceptions being the fog that drenches the town and the insects that surround the Red Pyramid.
Several scenes really blew me away, like when the lead is running through the streets of Silent Hill and the world seems to just fade away into the blanket of white ash that falls all around her.
www.kotaku.com /gaming/silent-hill   (2324 words)

  
 ZOG::Silent Hill Series What's New
The official release date of "The Limited Edition Silent Hill Collection" is April 21, 2006, it lists 3 SLES codes on its side, SLES 50382, 51434 and 52445 (which are the 3 numbers for the released games).
PAL Silent Hill Collection is coming, will arrive this week or the next.
Fellow fans of Silent Hill should already learnt that a Silent Hill Collection was released for PAL PS2 systems (mainly Europe I suppose), but only contains Silent Hill 2, 3 and 4.
z-o-g.org /silenthill   (615 words)

  
 IGN: Silent Hill Review
Silent Hill opens with the dreams of young Sharon (Jodelle Ferland).
The deeper they get, the more is revealed of the past atrocities of Silent Hill and the demons that still lurk about in the dark.
Silent Hill is, at its most basic level, a haunted house movie, but the house is the whole town.
filmforce.ign.com /articles/702/702707p1.html   (674 words)

  
 UGO's Silent Hill Hub - SILENTHILL.UGO.COM
All visitors are encouraged to explore the many haunted halls of UGO's Silent Hill Hub.
We visited the set of Silent Hill, discovered horrible things lurking in the dark and lived to tell you about it.
The town of Silent Hill is populated with all sorts of things that go bump in the night - ghosts, demons, monsters, occult leaders, gun-wielding psychos, hot-tempered hospital employees and, of course, creepy children.
silenthill.ugo.com   (330 words)

  
 Game Revolution Review Page - Game Revolution   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Silent Hill breaks that envelope because the whole world is truly 3D.
And what a sick horror movie it is. Silent Hill moves us away from the campy, Roger Corman style horror of Resident Evil, and into the truly disturbed worlds of H.P. Lovecraft and Clive Barker.
Silent Hill is definitely the scariest monster in town until we see what Resident Evil 3 for the Dreamcast looks like.
www.game-revolution.com /games/sony/adventure/silent_hill.htm   (953 words)

  
 Silent Hill 3 for PS2 - Silent Hill 3 Playstation 2 - Silent Hill 3 PS2 Game
This game guide gives you everything you need to know to help Heather find her way through Silent Hill, including solutions for every puzzle and tips on beating or sneaking past every monster.
This Silent Hill prequel on the PSP goes back to the beginning of the series, and you'll run into characters from the later games.
The Room retains the dark, disturbing soul that is the unsettling center of the Silent Hill experience.
www.gamespot.com /ps2/adventure/silenthill3/index.html   (462 words)

  
 Silent Hill (2006)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Plot Outline: A woman goes in search for her daughter, within the confines of a strange, desolate town called Silent Hill.
Trivia: The map of the underground hospital is the exact same map used for the hospital level in the game "Silent Hill 2" (more)
Goofs: Crew or equipment visible: When Rose locks herself in the school bathroom, she stands with her back to the door, with minors kicking at the opposite side.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0384537   (575 words)

  
 The Silent Hill Network - SHN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
It's been discovered that Silent Hill: 0rigins is available for preorder at Play.com.
What's interesting about this is the listed release date of "26/10/2007." 0rigins was pushed back to be shipped during Q1 2007, so I would imagine this date is most likely false.
They both feature Travis fending off against the same enemy we've seen in a few screenshots; one on the streets of Silent Hill and another in the narrow corridors of what looks like an asylum, or possibly an area of Alchemilla Hospital we've never seen.
www.silent-hill.org   (352 words)

  
 Silent Hill - The Alluring Nightmare
Silent Hill - The Alluring Nightmare is currently undergoing a complete makeover!!
Silent Hill is a trademark of Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo.
Silent Hill - The Alluring Nightmare is a fan-based site and not an official site of Silent Hill, Konami, XBox or PlayStation.
silent_hill6.tripod.com   (398 words)

  
 GameTrailers.com - Silent Hill (N/A) - Media, News, Reviews, Previews
Interviews and footage from the red carpet of the Silent Hill premiere.
This is the final boss to Silent Hill 2.
Fans of the Silent Hill series have much to be excited about, judging by this most recent trailer.
www.gametrailers.com /gamepage.php?id=2334   (584 words)

  
 Silent Hill for PlayStation - MobyGames
Harry Mason, an average man, is driving to the town of Silent Hill with his daughter.
When Silent Hill was first announced, press releases indicated that there would be two playable characters with different scenarios, like Resident Evil 2, but we all know that the retail version has only one playable character: Harry.
Apparently, Cybil was originally intended to be a playable character, and another side of the story would be viewed from her perspective.
www.mobygames.com /game/playstation/silent-hill   (496 words)

  
 Silent Hill for PS - Silent Hill PlayStation - Silent Hill PS Game
Turn the lights out, shut the door, and get ready for the most frightening experience of your life in Silent Hill.
Tell the world what you think of Silent Hill.
Resident Evil - a super-slick, realistically mapped, and ultra-violent Alone in the Dark - is at the top of the heap in cinematic 3-D adventure games.
www.gamespot.com /ps/adventure/silenthill/index.html   (391 words)

  
 .:.      DEVIL'S LYRIC     .:. Silent Hill shrine & fanlisting
to Devil's Lyric, a little shrine to the first game of the Silent Hill series, also including the one and only fanlisting for it listed at The Fanlistings Network.
In that case, feel free to take a look around, enjoy your visit...
I don't have any connections with Konami, Keiichiro Toyama, Akira Yamaoka or any other people from the development team of the Silent Hill series.
silent.howlingmoon.net   (247 words)

  
 Silent Hill Tickets and Showtimes from Fandango
Against her husband's will, she flees with her child, with the intention of taking her to a faith healer.
Along the way, she drives through a portal in reality, which lands her in the deserted town of Silent Hill.
Rose loses Sharon there, and she follows what she believes to be the silhouette of her daughter all over town.
www.fandango.com /MoviePage.aspx?mid=92729&source=np_title   (144 words)

  
 ...::: Silent Hill Heaven v2.1~php :::...
Hill Heaven is an unofficial website and is not officially supported by Konami.
Please do not take, use or hotlink anything from this website without asking for permission first.
Hill Heaven.com are provided to us courtesy of Makube from the
www.silenthillheaven.com /Site/Main/main.php   (136 words)

  
 Silent Hill (2006) - MovieWeb
"Silent Hill" is based on the Konami game in which Rose (Mitchell) desperately searches for her lost daughter in the mysterious, terrifying town of Silent Hill, where they are trapped.
"Silent Hill is probably the closest you'll get to actually having a nightmare in a movie theatre outside of a midnight screening of David Lynch's Eraserhead."
Silent Hill Scares Up the No. 1 Spot in DVD Sales
www.movieweb.com /movies/film.php?3124   (328 words)

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