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127 minutes of your life you will never get back (Silent Hill)

Advantages: the special effects are impressive
Disadvantages: disjointed story, not scary, irritating, bad accents, overly long

Silent Hill (otherwise known as 127 minutes of your life you will never get back) is a "scary movie" staring Radha Mitchell and Sean Bean. Ugh where do I start? Well the positive is that on the back of the DVD the summary makes it sound intriguing and interesting with the potential to be a real jump out of your seats thriller. The other positive is that the high polish production and special effects really are excellent and despite my opinion of ...
...bottom of it and researches Silent Hill on t'internet. She discovers that its a place in West Virginia that is a ghost town - ie: totally closed down due to an awful fire and subsequent toxic gases that that consumed the town. She decides to take Sharon to Silent Hill against her husband's wishes, but on the drive she has a car crash and passes out. Upon waking she finds her daughter gone and thus ensues the big hunt for Sharon. So far, its really ...

ciaomiaow 13.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Silent Hill (DVD)

Dank

Advantages: A feisty leading lady
Disadvantages: Nonsensical plotting, dreary directiion and dodgy effects

...Not only does she resemble the missing girl, but she claims to know where she is and that she has come back from the dead to replace her. "Ginger Snaps" director John Fawcett seems to have lost his grip on all things scary. "The Dark" is a ramshackle film cobbled together from bits and pieces of far better horror films and nonsensical ideas that don't hang together convincingly. Fawcett doesn't have a strong directorial style. His attempts at making ...
...don't serve any purpose at the beginning of the film because you haven't been introduced to any of the characters or locations. So they have no context. Later in the movie, they reveal too much and therefore undermine any scares. The editing throughout is choppy and this leads to a disjointed feeling that hinders the audience's comprehension. There are too many film school tricks in use for the director's shooting style to feel fresh or original. ...

afy9mab 13.09.2006 · Read full review
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Review of The Dark (DVD)

John Ryder is the Hitcher!!??

Advantages: great to watch with mates-intresting storyline
Disadvantages: poor acting-not scary enough-not enough action

...teenage couple are driving through the new Mexico desert on a rainy night they decide to pick up a serial killer John Ryder. Whilst driving, John threatens to kill them, But the couple manage to successfully through him out of the car. Eventually John manages to get to another family car and they later be found dead, the couple find the dead family with the driver still alive, so they decide to take him to a restaurant to gain help but the police ...
...the police have been killed and have been released from prison because the police guarding it have been killed, so from this point on John plays a game of hide and seek with the couple. It has a very interesting story to it because not many people have done something like this before which makes it all the more better, It is a remake from the 1986 version. I personally liked the original better because it was more in depth and seemed more scarier. ...

mehmoou101 16.08.2008 · Read full review
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Review of The Hitcher

Do people never learn? You're not supposed to talk to strangers!

Advantages: Sean Bean is menacing, good story and it's genuinely scary at times
Disadvantages: A very typical teen horror

The Hitcher is a 2007 horror film remake starring Sean Bean it’s rated 18 as it’s very violent and it runs for approximately 84 minutes. Despite my love of this film it actually only grossed an extremely disappointing $23,153,663 at the box office and only 20% of the reviews of this film were actually positive… not a great start is it?! Infact this film is apparently so bad that it’s actually been voted number 12 of the worst remakes of all time! ...
...Michael Bay is part of the production team on this, I knew his name rang a bell but it didn’t click until I looked it up… Transformers! Of course he’s played his part behind the scenes in the making of Bad Boys, Pearl Harbour and The Rock to name but a few, with a producer of his stature this film should be brilliant. Sean Bean is the main star of the film, he’s also starred in: Flight Plan, National Treasure and Golden Eye. His co-stars are Sophia ...

Great_reviewer07 22.04.2009 · Read full review
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Silent Hill - where the unimaginable horrors live

Advantages: Great game to movie conversion, real horror movie
Disadvantages: Can't think any, but maybe too scary for some viewers

I knew Silent Hill for the first time when the game for PSOne console was out on the market, and being a fan of survival horror game I tried the game and proven to be one of the scariest survival horror game ever made. And when I heard it was going to be made into a movie, I couldn't wait to watch it though I had a thought that "it will be disappointing", so I did (few times in fact he..he..he..he) boy I was wrong !!!. Based on a video game for Playstation ...
...make me a fan of Silent Hill game series to say..... "Wow!" On West Virginia there's a town called Silent Hill. The town has been evacuated for about 30 years due to an unstoppable (and still burning) underground coal fire. But there are other incidents which are hidden from the public and only few people knew about it................and all is revealed in the movie. The Main Characters : 1. Rose Da Silva (Radha Mitchell) : the main character, ...

Stenly7981 06.08.2008 · Read full review
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