Eamonn reviews Silent Hill: Part 1

(The Story so far...
IT HAS ALL COME DOWN TO THIS. THE COMET. THE RACIST FILM. THE COMA. THE BOMBING. THE AIR-RAID SIRENS SUMMONING DEMONIC CREATURES AND NOW...THE FAMILIAR TRAIN THAT RUNS ON CELLULOID RAILS AND THROUGH THE TUNNELS OF SHEER JOY, EAMONN FACES THE LORD OF DARKNESS HIMSELF,THE DEVIL!)

BRING IT ON, THERE'S NOTHING THAT IS BAD ENOUGH TO BREAK MY SPIRIT!
OH YEAH? WOULD YOU WAGER YOUR SOUL ON IT?

(DESCENDING FROM THE FURNACE, THE SOURCE OF HIS POWERS, THE DEVIL'S DVD SPINS SLOWER THE PATTERN CHANGES COLOUR UNTIL THE THE TRANSFORMED DISC IN READABLE.
"SILENT HILL?"
OH FU-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY92NAdGaR4
Yes! the finale of my first ever storyline is the review of a film so bad, that silent hill 3  had to up the gore so much it's banned in its own country of Japan.

Confession Time!
I never played Silent hill as i don't like shooters but I do like the story and the horrific designs of the monsters.But this film is the same as the Silent Hill comics. It has little base material used in it.

So with that in mind, lets trudge unarmed into Silent Hill.

So the film starts with the DiSilva Family, Rose (Radha Mitchell) and Chris(Sean Bean) in the middle of the night, looking for their daughter,Sharon. Rose finds her sleepwalking child about to jump of a cliff.Rose catches her as she screams Silent Hill
TITLE DROP!

The next day Rose tells her daughter that because of her dreams, and instead of the logical choice of seeing a doctor, they chose to go to the evil town filled with devil-worshipers and scary monsters.Except Sean Bean, who didn't really what the money and screentime it looks like.

As Rose is pumping petrol at a petrol station, she looks through Sharon's sketch book. it's filled with pictures of Grey Children and the Church of the Order.A distraught Sharon cannot remember drawing them.
This gets the attention of a policewoman. It turns outs that Chris has put a warrant on Rose for her arrest for Kidnapping. Rose then exposites that Sharon is adopted and From West Virginia where Silent hill is....Wait I thought Silent Hill was in Massecuchetts?

As Rose speeds off, the cop pulls her over, But Rose drives off when she sees the sign for Silent Hill.
Our Heroine, Ladies and Gentleman! Endangering her Child's life to avoid arrest.

So as Rose speeds off, A ghostly form steps in front of the car, causing it to crash. As Rose wakes up, It's morning, raining ash and Sharon is missing. We are in Silent Hill.

So Rose walks down the empty street, when she chases a child that isn't even wearing the clothes you dressed her in, Rose! But still chases Obviously Alessa, Then the Air Raid Siren goes off.

BACKSTORY!
The events that turned Silent Hill into a Hell hole happened During the war. The monsters of Silent Hill are negative Feelings made (rotting) flesh Whenever the siren is heard. Our world Silent hill becomes the Otherworld Silent hill. The Day turns to night and the wall start to bleed. Stumbling through a boiler room, Rose finds a dead body. Seeing Alessa run has her summon the Order's Miners and the Grey Children.

Backstory!
As said before, Silent Hill monsters are created by Negative feelings. The Grey children are embodiment of Alessa being bullied in school and creating the creatures as payback.

The Grey Children are not scary as it's just the 1 midget And ctrl and v Pressed a few times. However finding a light source dispelled the little bastards and transports rose into a Diner.

Shocked that she has moved she goes to her car Only to find the car...is gone!
(DRAMATIC MUSIC!)
And that the road is replaced by a chasm.
BACKSTORY!
The role of Silent Hill is twofold. It Claims back its own and lures people for being "impure" and punishes them.

From behind Rose Dahlia, Alessa's Mother Talks in Riddles about the town taking the children. Showing a picture of Sharon causing Dahlia to nearly push Sharon of the cliff.

Meanwhile Chris has travelled to West Virgina to find his family meeting Det. Thomas Gucci.Rose finds pictures made by Sharon of the midwich school. Finding her car she tries to start it and call Chris, But is arrestted by Sybil Bennett a Policewoman and a character from the first game.

So as the 2 women are walking towards the chasm, Sybill tells Rose that there has being a long history of Child sacrifice since the town became haunted. Rose's worry, and feeling of helplessness, especially after being handcuffed, manifests itself into Silent Hill's  it's most dangerous denizens, The Armless Man. Cybill shoots at it, but it shoots acid  at her in kind.

Oh, so I guess it wasn't so 'armless after all!
I'LL GET MY COAT...
Rose finds her way to Midwich School. Searching through the drawers for a torch. Chris and Thomas are driving in real world Silent hill, as Thomas says he was from Silent Hill.
FORESHADOWING!

Back in school, Rose finds Alessa's coat. but are chased by the Order. In a Class room Hand prints on a desk that somehow Rose recognises as her daughters (What An Ass Pull That Was!) In Sharon's Handwriting on a copy book is the name Alessa Gillespie. Chasing her into toilets. Rose hears her crying. In one of the stalls is the crucified body of the Janitor in Barb wire. Seeing her chance to free herself, Rose takes the key out of the corpse's mouth. The Order attacks but an Air Screamer in a cage starts to act like a canary. The Air Raid siren goes off again. Turning real world into Otherworld.
END OF PART 1
PART 2 NEXT TUESDAY.