4.9
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Silent Hill (2006)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Viewer Rating
Rating: 4.9
Overview
Rose, a desperate mother takes her adopted daughter, Sharon, to the town of Silent Hill in an attempt to cure her of her ailment. After a violent car crash, Sharon disappears and Rose begins a desperate search to get her back. She descends into the center of the twisted reality of a town's terrible secret. Pursued by grotesquely deformed creatures and townspeople stuck in permanent purgatory, Rose begins to uncover the truth behind the apocalyptic disaster that burned the town 30 years earlier.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Bias Dimensions
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: Low
Gender Swap: Yes
Christianity: Negative
Overview
Rose, a desperate mother takes her adopted daughter, Sharon, to the town of Silent Hill in an attempt to cure her of her ailment. After a violent car crash, Sharon disappears and Rose begins a desperate search to get her back. She descends into the center of the twisted reality of a town's terrible secret. Pursued by grotesquely deformed creatures and townspeople stuck in permanent purgatory, Rose begins to uncover the truth behind the apocalyptic disaster that burned the town 30 years earlier.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Center
Primary
The film's central thesis strongly condemns religious fundamentalism and the persecution of the innocent, portraying them as the root cause of immense suffering and a cycle of violent retribution, which aligns with left-leaning critiques of oppressive dogmatic systems.
Silent Hill features a predominantly white cast without explicit race or gender swaps for traditional roles. The narrative focuses on horror and a mother's journey, without explicitly critiquing or negatively portraying traditional identities, nor does it center on explicit DEI themes.
Secondary
The film adapts the video game where the protagonist, Harry Mason, was male. The movie features a female protagonist, Rose Da Silva, who fulfills the same core narrative role of searching for her daughter, constituting a gender swap.
The film portrays a fundamentalist Christian cult, the 'Brotherhood,' as the primary antagonist. Their extreme dogma, persecution of innocents, and violent rituals are depicted as the source of the town's suffering and evil, presenting a highly critical view of religious fanaticism.
The film 'Silent Hill' does not include any discernible LGBTQ+ characters or themes. Its narrative focuses on a mother's search for her daughter in a supernatural town, exploring themes of religious fanaticism and trauma without engaging with queer identity.
The film "Silent Hill" does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. Its narrative is centered on horror, mystery, and the exploration of a cursed town, with no elements pertaining to transgender identity or experiences.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film adapts characters from the Silent Hill video game series. Key characters like Cybil Bennett, Dahlia Gillespie, and Alessa Gillespie are portrayed by actors whose race aligns with their established depictions in the source material. No instances of a character canonically established as one race being portrayed as a different race were found.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.5
6.6
Critic Ratings
3.4
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