Silent Hill?! (15)

I quite liked it. Not having played the game I had no real idea what it was about, but I thought it would be similar to house of the dead and so be a lot of zombie shooting. So was quite a nice surprise. And while I don't find many horror films scary, I have to say I did find Silent Hill quite earie and kept me a bit on edge in some places. And I quite liked the looks of it, reminded me of a mix between a Tool and MArilyn Manson video in places. Only part that didn't really work for me was Sean Bean's accent, he did a good job, but it just didn't belong with him.

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Personally i thought Sean Bean's place in the entire film was a waste of time and at 1st i thought it was someone else, i also thought none of it was scary, didnt have me jumping but did have me looking at eldest with a puzzled look and a 'what was THAT meant to be?' and then we sat laughing at the ridiculousness of it.

That said, once i (daughter cleared off to bed bored) got into the film (half way through) i did actually enjoy it although as ive said before, just did not get it. You have done a fair job of explaining it tho BB and for that Thanks

Well limbo is a generic term for a place between worlds. So not in heaven and not in hell and not on earth as such.

Purgatory is more close to hell. It's a place of suffering, but can be like a mini hell for those who need to suffer for a bit to be purged of sin before being allowed into heaven.

So I used limbo to describe a another plane of existance between heaven and hell but without it being a specific plane of existance. So it could be neutral, or a lesser plane of hell or something entirely different.

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Ooooooh! right ok thanks

Yeah, Sean didn't really do that much, but I think the role was needed just to emphasise the trapped loneliness at the end. But maybe they could have found an american actor to fill that role.

And I think the not knowing what the hell was going on is more kind of what gave me that sense of eariness, especially when the world changed that first time. And I have to say that if I was the mother in that film I'd have been crapping myself when that happened. But as I was in the cinema then I wasn't scared. I will admit to jumping during the nurses scene, even though I was expecting what happened to happen, well it was kind of obvious, just didn't expect it to happen at that precise moment. I did like the imagery though, that was cool and I was impressed by the fact it wasn't a big shooty film like Resident Evil, it had more intelligence than that.

I seem to be able to understand wierd films like that quite easily. I came out of the cinema after watching Final Fantasy: The Spirit Within and my two friends didn't have a clue what it was all about, and I just saw it as the earth having an infection and the Doc/Soldiers finding the ingredients to a cure for it. Still glad you like my view of what the ending to Silent Hill was about.

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