The Silent Hill movie is secretly great

polygon.com:

The Silent Hill video game franchise is finally ready for a real return, with a new game set to be announced on Wednesday. This latest revival of the series also means it’s the perfect time to revisit the secretly great original Silent Hill movie. While horror-seekers and video game fans of 2006 bristled at the fact that the movie didn’t stay true to the source material, a decade of (mostly) bad Silent Hill entries has proven just how good the movie really was.

The movie follows Rose Da Silva (Radha Mitchell) and her husband Christopher (Sean Bean), who are worried about their daughter, Sharon (Jodelle Ferland), and her constant sleep walking and muttering about a place called Silent Hill. Eventually, in desperate hope for a solution, Rose takes Sharon and seeks out Silent Hill for answers. The pair quickly become trapped in the haunted ghost town — along with a police officer named Cybil Bennett (Laurie Holden), who tries to stop them from crossing the town limits and gets pulled in herself. Sharon then disappears, sending the two women on a search for the girl through Silent Hill, where they encounter some of the video game series’ most famous monsters.

While the movie’s monsters and gore offer a creepy cinematic trip to gaming’s most famous ghost town, the best part of the Silent Hill movie is the metaphor at its center. Director Christophe Gans (Brotherhood of the Wolf) and screenwriter Roger Avary (Pulp Fiction) devise a story that grapples with the ways men and women can view the world differently, and the way that threats against women can go unnoticed by the men around them.

Shortly after Rose and Sharon leave, Christopher follows them, realizing they might be headed to Silent Hill. When he arrives, all he