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[2006, Movie]

Silent Hill: Review

Written by Roger Avary and directed by Christophe Gans, this adaptation of the hugely popular Silent Hill game starts out a suffocating fog of creepiness wrapped around a memorably malevolent child spirit, but squanders its meticulously established atmosphere on a lengthy climactic sequence that owes a significant debt of inspiration to Clive Barker's HELLRAISER movies. Rose Da Silva (Radha Mitchell) is desperate to cure her daughter, Sharon (Jodelle Ferland), of nightmares a... read more

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November 10, 2006: The V Word | Masters of Horror | 11/11/2006
Masters of Horror creator and writer Mick Garris said that The V Word wouldn't be a romantic depiction of vampires, and that's definitely true. However, these vampires are not the breed found in cynical, doom-and-gloom existential metaphors like The Addiction or Habit, which is what I was anticipating. Instead, Garris himself wrote a pretty straightforward "teens explore crypts, get bit, get undead, get hungry, get gone" type of story. Michael Ironside, the ugly, angry vampire, was about as entertaining as Jack Nicholson in The Witches of Eastwick; too bad we didn't see more of him. I don't know why he carried a parasol in the graveyard, but what I don't know probably won't hurt me.Even though The V Word wasn't misted, shadowed and full of velvet and candelabras, Garris paid his respect to the romantic vampire by writing in some noticeable nods:— Ironside's character, "Mr. Chaney" (pretty obvious), is a nod to Lon Chaney, who was first considered for the role of Dracula... read more

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Year: 2006
Rated R

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Cast
Radha Mitchell: Rose Da Silva
Sean Bean: Christopher Da Silva
Laurie Holden: Cybil Bennett
Deborah Kara Unger: Dahlia Gillespie
Kim Coates: Officer Thomas Gucci
Tanya Allen: Anna

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