Silent Hill (2006) – WTF Happened to This Horror Movie?

We’re wrapping this week up with a new episode of the WTF Happened to This Horror Movie? video series, and with this one we’re looking back at the 2006 horror video game adaptation Silent Hill (watch it HERE). To find out what went into bringing Silent Hill to the big screen, check out the video embedded above!

Directed by Christophe Gans, who also crafted the screenplay with Roger Avary and Nicolas Boukhrief, Silent Hill has the following synopsis:

Unable to accept the fact that her daughter is dying, Rose decides to take the girl to a faith healer. On the way, the pair drive through a portal in reality, leading to an eerie town called Silent Hill. The town is surrounded by a potent darkness, and the human survivors fight a losing battle against it.

The film stars Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean, Laurie Holden, Deborah Kara Unger, Kim Coates, Tanya Allen, Alice Krige, and Jodelle Ferland.

This is what the WTF Happened to This Horror Movie series is all about:

Hollywood has had its fair share of historically troubled productions. Whether it was casting changes, actor deaths, fired directors, in-production rewrites, constant delays, budget cuts or studio edits, these films had every intention to be a blockbuster, but were beset with unforeseen disasters. Sometimes huge hits, sometimes box office bombs. Either way, we have to ask: WTF Happened To This Horror Movie?

The Silent Hill episode of WTF Happened to This Horror Movie? was Written by Mike Conway, Edited by Ric Solomon, Narrated by Jason Hewlett, Produced by Lance Vlcek and John Fallon, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian.

A couple of the previous episodes of the show can be seen below. To see more, head over to our JoBlo Horror Originals YouTube channel – and subscribe while you’re there!

What do you think of Silent Hill? Let us know by leaving a comment!

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Cody is a news editor and film critic, focused on the horror arm of JoBlo.com, and writes scripts for videos that are released through the JoBlo Originals and JoBlo Horror Originals YouTube channels. In his spare time, he's a globe-trotting digital nomad, runs a personal blog called Life Between Frames, and writes novels and screenplays.