Silent Hill

   Rose and Christopher have adopted a daughter with some psychological issues. Sharon sleepwalks, and keeps having night terrors about a place she refers to as Silent Hill. She keeps getting worse, and Rose decides to take her to the place she dreams about, a ghost town abandoned decades ago due to a coal fire emerging beneath it, directly against her husbands wishes. However, as the two reach the city, they are forced to swerve to avoid hitting a young girl appearing in the middle of the road. Rose hits her head on the steering wheel, and when she wakes up, she notices her daughter's gone. Being followed by a police officer, Cybil, Rose gets arrested, but before they have the time to exit the city they are attacked by something non-human, forcing them to split up. Cybil, Rose and Sharon are up for the adventure of a lifetime when the secrets of the city are unearthed.
   Having never played one of the games, I wasn't sure what to expect from this horror movie. However, I was pleasantly surprised by it. Silent Hill is scary, more so the monsters (of which Pyramid Head is the clear favorite of mine, since the reason for his existence is so fascinating) in it than the actual plot and the movie itself. The film takes on several different themes: a mother's love for her child, religion gone fanatic, the supernatural and the dark side found inside every person if pushed too far. It also offers an intresting look into the minds of the witch hunters found throughout several decades of our history.
   If you haven't yet seen this iconic horror movie, I highly recommend that you do. It's nothing short of a masterpiece, and I think it's absolutely amazing!