Silent Hill: RevelationMovie Reviews

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Avg. Critic Score: 15 out of 100 Overwhelming dislike Metascore^® based on all critic reviews

Information for Parents:

Iffy for 16+

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Empire | Kim Newman
The first film was imperfect but solid as game-adaps go and fans revelled in its clammy shocks. No such luck this time out. Director Bassett oversees a vaporous horror sequel that rarely raises the pulse. Read full review
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Slant Magazine |
Silent Hill: Revelation fundamentally misunderstands the appeal its source material. Read full review
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Entertainment Weekly | Keith Staskiewicz
Some horror movies want to scare you witless, but Silent Hill: Revelation 3D just wants to beat you senseless. Read full review
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The Hollywood Reporter | Frank Scheck
Silent Hill is not a place you want to go, and that applies for moviegoers as well as this videogame adaptation's characters. Read full review
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Los Angeles Times |
There is a flamboyance to some of the imagery - Heather and her demonic doppelganger embrace on a flaming carousel - but no exuberance, no sense of wonder, fascination or enjoyment. Everything feels like a throwaway. Read full review
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The New York Times |
The film is nothing if not liberal with its bloodletting, which integrates cleverly at times with the 3-D: lopped fingers, for example, fly toward the audience. But personalities and plot are thumbnail sketches at best. Read full review
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Total Film |
The nurse-monsters look cool - think HR Giger in Ann Summers kit - but the plot and burning fairgrounds are so OTT they dispel any chill factor. Read full review
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Boxoffice Magazine |
Silent Hill: Revelation 3D is the nadir of senseless seasonal cinema. But while Bassett's film struggles to say anything coherently, it gets the most important message across perfectly well: "Do not go to Silent Hill!" Read full review
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The Playlist | Drew Taylor
One step worse than most of these video game movies. It feels less like a game and more like what happens when you leave your PlayStation on and it becomes a kind of dim screensaver. If we had a controller in our hand, we would probably throw it at the screen. Read full review
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Austin Chronicle | Marc Savlov
A knockoff in everything from style to story, it also suffers from 3-D effects that are dim and underwhelming, a maddeningly obtuse storyline, and performances that could have used some serious Herbert West-style reanimation. Read full review

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Information for Parents

Common Sense Media says Iffy for 16+ Muddled horror sequel is nightmarishly violent.

What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that Silent Hill: Revelation 3D is the sequel to 2006's Silent Hill and that both films are based on popular video games. The original dealt with the disturbing disappearance of a young girl; that character has now grown into a brave and resourceful teen. There's lots of strong fantasy/horror violence, including nightmarish imagery (characters with no faces and other creepy things) and blood and gore (particularly severed limbs and heads). Language includes a few uses of both "f--k" and "s--t," and a topless woman is shown for a few moments in one scene, though otherwise -- except for some mild teen flirting -- sex and sexual innuendo aren't really issues.

Families can talk about Silent Hill: Revelation's violence. How does its impact compare to what you've seen in other horror movies? What about in other, more realistic films?
Are the movie's images like nightmares? How so? Is the movie scary? How do those images contribute to the overall tone/feel?
What's the appeal of horror movies? Why can it be fun to be scared?
Is the main character a role model for teen girls? What are her positive qualities? Her iffier ones?

The good stuff

Positive messages: A teen girl learns some very tough lessons about her unusual (supernatural) life and still manages to keep a positive outlook, working hard to find solutions. But the movie's plot is very muddled/complex, and it's difficult to know exactly what the problems and solutions are.
Positive role models: The heroine is a brave teen girl who has the courage and strength to go looking for her missing father in a scary place (a place she's been forbidden to go), as well as take on more and more treacherous tasks to help save the day. But she has a stubborn streak and is reluctant to ask others for help or let others get close to her.

What to watch for

Violence: Extreme fantasy/horror violence, with lots of nightmarish images -- i.e. characters with no faces, creepy monsters, etc. Characters are shot and stabbed, with spurts of blood. Many human arms are severed in one sequence, and in other sequences, fingers and heads are severed, and a human victim's flesh is sliced from his chest. In a brief nightmare sequence, a teen girl is on fire, and in a quick flashback, a boy's chest is shown carved up and bleeding. Also some fighting, with weapons.
Sexy stuff: One female victim is shown topless while lying on a table (just before she's turned into a mannequin). The two teen leads share a brief scene of flirting.
Language: Language includes a few uses of "f--k" and "s--t," as well as "hell," "oh my God," and "Jesus," used as an exclamation.
Consumerism: Facebook is mentioned a few times, including the phrase "f--k Facebook." Twitter is also mentioned once.
Drinking, drugs and smoking: Not an issue

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