Ignoring my pitiful attempts to inject humour into my entry titles…pah!

Panama Jack seems depressed over the recently released Silent Hill movie. Seeing as every April usually sees a distinct lack of good movies I actually saw Silent Hill over the weekend – there was not much else to see plus I like a good Horror.

Unfortunately, PJ hits the nail on the head. Silent Hill had the visual effects (not overdone – looked quite realistic), the scene settings spot on, the acid spewing creatures which are plain disturbing, an eerily empty ghost town where it rained ash – but on the other side the story was poorly scripted and the direction heavy handed. Instead of explaining the background and focusing on one person’s horrifying and tension filled experiences and encounters we got hop-skipped between real and surreal, horror (weak – the acid spewing was the most memorable) and plain boredom. The real world scenes made little sense – a woman, her child and a deputy go missing and its pathetically obvious the script writer got lazy otherwise the town would have been crawling with search parties.

At times I think people should gather up all those Hollywood horror script writers and directors and execute the lot for being incompetent. All the good Horrors recently seem to be Japanese…

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