When it comes to the horror genre, I am always giddy to see horror movies and play horror games; which is one of the many reasons why "Silent Hill Revelations 3D" pisses me off!
For those of you who do not know what this movie is about, I'll explain in brief. "Silent Hill Revelations 3D" is the sequel to the movie "Silent Hill", both movies are based off of the "Silent Hill", a survival horror video game, franchise that are notable for their use of symbolic, psychological and disturbing imagery to invoke horror. They are notable for their dark and complex story-lines as well as memorable characters and chilling moments.
Trust me when I say that almost none of that made it into this film. For those people who still want to go see it without too much spoiled about the plot itself, here's a brief list of what to expect from this movie: Bad acting, bad dialogue, confusing story, a baker's dozen batch of McGuffins, poor consistency between shots, emotional inconsistency between scenes, direct-to-video quality CGI, over-reliance on CGI, many characters that are unspent cannon fodder, over-reliance on references to the Silent Hill 3 video game, random references to other games that are thrown in, missing iconic scenes from Silent Hill 3, characters and monsters seem to be aware that they are in a movie, butchering of iconic characters from the games, lack of consistency for a sequel to the first movie, and almost every scare in the movie is a jump scare. Yes, that is a BRIEF list of things that you should expect from this movie, there was plenty more that I left out.
If I have one thing to say that's genuinely nice about this film, it's that its 3D is quite passable, but is extremely hindered by the poor quality CGI. Also, another thing is that when the movie shuts up and gives the atmosphere a chance to set in, the ambiance within the silence is actually beautiful; footsteps sound creepy, breathing is suspenseful, and the tension is pretty good, but those moments are undercut by the fact that you just know that something is going to pop out and ruin it. So, even the golden parts of the movie are still covered in shit.
Do I recommend this movie? No, not in the slightest. I would actually recommend watching the original Silent Hill movie over this, because that movie was more faithful to the games, even despite the massive re-haul to the story and characters, than this one was. Silent Hill Revelations 3D SUCKS, it's just another example of a shameful cash-in on a game license. If I find a time machine sometime in the future, I will go back in time and tell my past self to just throw my money into the gutter and watch it drift into the storm-drain, because that would be a higher quality entertainment and more worth my time than this piece of crap movie.
I'll follow this review up with another post or two sometime soon and I'll try to explain myself a bit more in depth as to why this movie failed so hard and could have been so much more. But in order to do that properly, I think I need to explain a bit about the horror genre. But until then, stay tuned for another review from your glorious lord master internet reviewer: The Schism!
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