Rose and her husband Christopher da Silva are concerned about their adopted daughter, Sharon, who has begun sleep-walking, and their only clue is her terrified screams about a deserted West Virginia mining town: Silent Hill. Desperate to help her daughter – and despite Christopher’s vehement opposition – Rose takes Sharon on a road trip to the find the town and get some answers. It is late in the evening when they pull into a gas station to fuel up for the last leg of their journey. While they are stopped, Sharon wakes in the back seat to find the drawings she made earlier in the day savagely defaced, and her terrified cries attract the attention of a nearby police officer. Unnerved by the officer’s attention, Rose attempts to put some distance between them and her driving becomes reckless. She is so intent on their escape that she is caught completely off guard when a dark figure dashes out into the road. Swerving to avoid a collision, Rose crashes the car, hitting her head on the steering wheel. She wakes later, dazed, confused, and hurt to find her daughter missing. Undaunted, with her useless cell phone hanging from her neck, Rose heads into Silent Hill to find her daughter and, hopefully, a cure for her terrifying condition.

The Silent Hill movie is a horror film directed by Christophe Gans and written by Roger Avary. Released in 2006, the film is a very rough adaptation from the original Silent Hill game: a lone parent fights their way through a Hellish town to find their missing daughter who, we eventually learn, has a dark past that somehow ties not only to the town itself, but also to the pervasive evil that seems to inhabit it. Fans of the game should take note that the similarity between the game and the movie effectively ends there; the film takes the plot in a different direction; introducing new villains and characters whose resemblance to their game counterparts is in name only. Influences from the core games in the series (Silent Hill, Silent Hill 2, and Silent Hill 3) are not completely absent, but are essentially minor and felt mostly in the movie’s soundtrack, the creature and scenery designs, and the epic, final “boss battle” the helps conclude the movie.