It takes us to the sort of world where hell is round the corner, secret doors abound and faux-blond policewomen outfit themselves in skin-tight leather. Structured around a series of blackouts and gross-outs, it is one long free fall through icky surrealism and underlighted nightmares. Not that smart talk or narrative integrity have any place in "Silent Hill." From first frame to last, not a second of the film has a grip on reality. Let it be noted that by this point in the story our heroines have not only encountered ghoulish ash babies, demonic cockroaches and a contortionist zombie, but have also slipped so quickly between parallel dimensions of weird that their antics make "Mulholland Drive" look like Main Street. Several hours after arriving in the spooky town of Silent Hill, Rose (Radha Mitchell) turns to Cybil (Laurie Holden) and says: "They used to say this place was haunted.
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