Silent Hill Revelation Review

Silent Hill Revelation Review

Year: 2012

Cast: Adelaide Clemens, Kit Harington and Sean Bean

Director: Michael J Basset

Running Time: 94 minutes

Ah the long awaited sequel to 2006’s Silent hill, has been long coming and to me at least worth the wait. From director Michael J Basset, also the writer he’s not done a lot before this but one notable film he has in his repertoire is death-watch a brilliant head fuck of a film set in world war and quite reminiscent of silent hill itself so I think the best option writer and director of this film.

For me that was already a good start here, so Silent hill revelation, both loosely and directly at times based on silent hill 3. Guess they wanted to skip the second game (the best in a lot of people’s minds) not a bad thing though as it would have fit in with the whole scheme of things and non-silent hill game fans wouldn’t have got it.

We start the film with Heather Mason (Adelaide Clemens, she’s not been a lot mentionable things other than some TV series appearances and film bit parts, though she does have the great Gatsby coming up this year) in a theme park very reminiscent of the third games opening but not as convoluted. Being based on the game I could draw a lot of comparisons here but I’ll try not to as ones a film and one isn’t. The only thing I will say is you’ll recognise a lot of people from both and the film follows almost the same pacing as in locations and people.

That turns out to be a dream anyway we find out Harry (Sean Bean game of thrones, golden eye equilibrium) and Heather/Sharon have moved around a lot from the first film trying to dodge the cult who want Heather back.

Through this film we find out a lot about Heather that she’s Alessa sister/child created from all that good left in her when she was burnt to a crisp. In her new school she meets Vincent (Kit Harington, Game of thrones) another new kid in the class. Unfortunately you know these films he’s not what he seems, Harry gets kidnapped by the cult but not before telling heather to meet him all because she’s told him that she’s being followed by a guy.

Before he’s kidnapped he asked Heather to meet him in the mall where she does, the mystery follower guy is revealed as Douglas Cartland who reveals himself as a detective sent to find her. Realising he made a massive mistake tries to warn Heather about the cult but is killed by some bladed arm thing.

Escaping the shadow world version of the mall they find Doug’s body and Heathers discarded coat with him and link her to his murder. Vincent pops up and accompanies Heather home where she finds out about Harry’s abduction and goes to follow him with the crest of metatron as some kind of key.

I loved this bit because as their looking through a book you see some nods to silent hill monsters and other things. So they stop in a motel before silent hill Vincent then reveals himself to be a son of the cult but has learnt Heather isn’t evil, she doesn’t like this and the shadow world comes through and Vincent is taken away.

Waking up with the world relatively normal again and she proceeds up the road to Silent hill, the familiar fog is there. So the rest of the film is now in Silent hill with a confrontation between Heather and Alessa that bit of the film is dealt with rather quickly. So she rescues Harry who ultimately decides to stay back to see if he can rescue his wife Rose from the first film.

Heather leaves with Vincent as her protector now and for them silent hill seems to be clear. As they leave they thumb a lift from a truck driver one Travis Grady the protagonist from silent hill origins, as they drive off a police transport comes past with two police cars also a nod at silent hill downpour the newest game in the series.

So this film wasn’t perfect with its $20million budget it was well used with the make-up and effects it made a very realistic silent hill for me, it nicely doubled its budget in revenue as well so who knows maybe we’ll see more. Some unnecessary nudism, no nod to silent hill 2 though they did two other games in the franchise. Finally the whole Alessa thing cleared up rather quickly though not without some explanation so that wasn’t too bad.

So I love the games and the movies really do it for me it is like watching a walkthrough of a game like I said it has its flaws which is why I don’t give this a full five stars.

Silent Hill Revelation gets a very strong 4 out of 5 stars and I’d recommend you watch it if you have the time.

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