Silent Hill

Rose takes her adopted daughter Sharon to the eerie town of Silent Hill hoping that its strange history might ease the girl's mysterious sickness. After a crash on the fog-choked road, Sharon vanishes and Rose pushes deeper into the town, where reality fractures and memories bleed into nightmares. As she searches abandoned streets and warped houses, she encounters hostile townspeople and grotesque creatures that seem to embody guilt and punishment. The film follows her attempts to pull Sharon back from a collapsing, ritual-soaked world while revealing pieces of the town's violent past, keeping major twists and the ending under wraps.

Released in 2006, the film was directed by Christophe Gans with a screenplay credited to Roger Avary, and it adapts Konami's Silent Hill video game series. Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean, Jodelle Ferland, Laurie Holden, and Deborah Kara Unger lead the cast.

The movie performed well enough in theaters to generate continued interest and later a sequel, and it found a sizable audience on home video and streaming platforms, helping it remain a visible entry in early 2000s horror cinema.

Silent Hill left a clear mark with its visuals and creature designs, especially the fog-filled town, the nightmarish nurses, and the Pyramid Head figure, which became widely recognized by horror fans. Its industrial, rust-streaked production design and soundscape influenced later video game adaptations and are often cited when filmmakers talk about translating game atmospheres to film.

Critics and audiences reacted unevenly, reflected in a middling average rating of 6.6 out of 10 from viewers. Reviewers praised the film's oppressive mood, art direction, and faithfulness to the game aesthetic, while many found the narrative and character work less satisfying. Major themes include motherhood, guilt, religious extremism, and the way personal trauma reshapes perception, with the film favoring mood and symbolism over straightforward explanation.