Silent Hill(2006)
2006 · Christophe Gans · 125 min
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 embarks on a horrific journey to get her back and begins to uncover the truth behind the apocalyptic disaster that burned the town 30 years earlier.
Horror · Mystery
6.65.1k votes
TMDB score
4/5
Intensity
4/5
Gore
4/5
Stays with you
How Silent Hill scares
It starts as a quiet, foggy search through empty streets and slowly pulls you into a nightmare world that gets more grotesque and violent the longer it goes on. The atmosphere does most of the work at first, all sirens, ash, and dread, but once the monsters show up the movie leans hard into disturbing imagery, body horror, and brutal violence. This is less about cheap jolts and more about a sustained, oppressive sense of wrongness, with some genuinely upsetting religious and cult-driven cruelty mixed in. It's a heavy watch, more unsettling than fun, best for people who like their horror thick with mood and willing to sit in ugliness.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, Silent Hill rates psychological 4/5, visceral 4/5, gore 4/5, lingering effect 4/5, and overall intensity 4/5.
- Psychological: 4 of 5
- Visceral: 4 of 5
- Gore: 4 of 5
- Lingering: 4 of 5
- Intensity: 4 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 25 of 100 — leans Slow burn
Supernatural vs Real-world: 15 of 100 — leans Supernatural
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 70 of 100 — leans Disturbing
Intensity over runtime
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A slow, dreamlike descent into fog and dread that keeps spiking with sudden shocks before boiling into a brutal, unrelenting final stretch.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 1, 3, 3, 4, 3, 4, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 4.
How scary is Silent Hill?
On The Horror Database's 0–5 intensity scale, Silent Hill rates 4/5 — one of the more punishing watches in the catalog, building its fear through slow-burn dread rather than shocks. It works on both fronts, unsettling the mind while going for the body. Expect it to be heavy on gore and genuinely disturbing. Expect it to stay with you for days.
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