History Film / SilentHill

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Pyramid Head shows up during the school scenes and is last seen [[spoiler:skinning Anna]] and is never mentioned again.

* BlackAndWhiteInsanity: Christabella and her cultists see the world in black and white, refusing to understand how horrible their own deeds are or that the hellish stae of the world they live in is their own fault.

* RootingForTheEmpire: In the game Alessa is a sympathetic and tragic character but the audience isn't exactly rooting for her success. In this movie the protagonist (and audience) are outright relying on her showing up in her full nightmarish power and saving the day.

* DistaffCounterpart: Rose to Harry; the director changed the main character's gender because he felt like the main character of the video game was very feminine already because he cared about his daughter enough to look for her. He also felt Silent Hill was a matriarchal world, and wanted to hold true to that theme.

* Fanservice: The opening scene has a good looking blonde running around in skimpy shorts and thin tank-top with no bra on an apparently chilly night.

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* RuleOfSymbolism: Quite a bit of it, since this is a SilentHill movie. Most obvious is the fact that Rose's dress slowly changes from a soft blue to a deep, blood red as the movie progresses. The differing worlds and most of the characters also carry metaphorical comparisons to Christian beliefs, and Dahlia represents Cassandra from Greek mythology.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Christabella, her fellow cultists, and Colin.]]

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Cybil is very graphically burned alive, gasping for her mother. Also, Christabella and the cultists, who are slaughtered with barbed wire by being bisected, crushed, or otherwise brutally killed.]]

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Cybil is very graphically burned alive, gasping for her mother. Also, Christabella and the cultists.]]

* SteelEardrums: Averted. When Pyramid head attacks our heroes in a small room, one shoots him. The other clutches her ears.

* TheBadGuyWins: It's debatable whether [[spoiler: Alessa is really ''the'' "bad guy" considering that the people she's fighting are the film's BiggerBad, but she's definitely not morally innocuous given her willingness to harm the innocent, and her actions lead directly to the DownerEnding mentioned below]].
* BiggerBad: [[spoiler: Alessa is behind all of the horrible things that go bump in the night in Silent Hill, but she's only created her nightmare world to punish the cultists who attempted to kill her]].

* DealWithTheDevil: The hospital sequence with Alessa and Dark Alessa likely symbolically represents this, although Dark Alessa is not actually the devil.
** [[spoiler: To save her daughter, Rose lets Dark Alessa hitch a ride inside her body into the church, knowing she'll slaughter the cultists.]]
*** [[spoiler: This sequence is actually far more likely to represent the Virgin Mary being impregnated by the Holy Ghost, given the several connections between Rose and the Virgin Mary made throughout the film, including an image engraved on her necklace.]]
* DistaffCounterpart: Rose to Harry; the director changed the main character's gender because he felt like the main character of the video game was very feminine already because he cared about his daughter enough to look for her.
** He also felt Silent Hill was a matriarchal world, and wanted to hold true to that theme.

* WouldHurtAChild: The cultists. [[spoiler: The entire plot of the film is set off by their past decision to burn Alessa]], and after [[spoiler: discovering Sharon, they tie her to a ladder and attempt to burn her alive as well]].

* SingleIssueWonk: There are droves of people who condemn the movie as garbage simply because [[GenderFlip they made Harry Mason a female]] for the film. Though the excuse the film makers used to defend that choice, namely that they didn't consider Harry to be strong or manly enough to be male, and that in their view it is apparently a more feminine trait to be willing to protect your child by putting your own life in danger, comes across as quite sexist and certainly doesn't help matters.

* SingleIssueWonk: There are droves of people who condemn the movie as garbage simply because [[GenderFlip they made Harry Mason a female]] for the film. The incredibly sexist excuse the film makers used to defend that choice, being that they didn't consider Harry to be strong or manly enough to be male, certainly doesn't help.

* WouldHurtAChild: The cultists. [[spoiler: The entire plot of the film is set off by their past decision to burn Alessa]], and after [[spoiler: discovering Sharon, they tie her to a ladder and attempt to burn her alive as well]].

->''Mother is God in the eyes of a child.''

'''''Silent Hill''''' is a film adaptation of ''VideoGame/SilentHill1'', from the French director [[Film/BrotherhoodOfTheWolf Christophe Gans]] and Canadian writer Creator/RogerAvary, which also draws inspiration from several other ''Franchise/SilentHill'' games (notably ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'', due to the film's usage of Pyramid Head).

'''''Silent Hill''''' is a film adaptation of ''VideoGame/SilentHill1'', from the French director [[Film/BrotherhoodOfTheWolf Christophe Gans]] and Canadian writer {{Roger Avary}}, which also draws inspiration from several other ''Franchise/SilentHill'' games (notably ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'', due to the film's usage of Pyramid Head).

* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: In the Japanese version, Anna Tsuchiya's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FVMfRugQNM "Lovin' You"]] is used.

* SingleIssueWonk: There are droves of people who condemn the movie as garbage simply because [[GenderFlip they made Harry Mason a female]] for the film. The incredibly sexist excuse the film makers used to defend that choice, being that they didn't consider Harry to be strong or manly enough, certainly doesn't help.

* SingleIssueWonk: There are droves of people who condemn the movie as garbage simply because [[GenderFlip they made Harry Mason a female]] for the film. The incredibly sexist excuse the film makers used to defend that choice, being that they didn't consider Harry to be a manly character, certainly doesn't help.

* SingleIssueWonk: There are droves of people who condemn the movie as garbage simply because [[GenderFlip they made Harry Mason a female]] for the film.

* TheBadGuyWins: It's debatable whether [[spoiler: Alessa is really ''the'' "bad guy" considering that the people she's fighting are the film's BiggerBad, but her actions lead directly to the DownerEnding mentioned below]].

** [[spoiler: Also TheBadGuyWins]]