Tonight I saw Aztek643's fanedit of the Silent Hill movie.
It's still deeply flawed by the two heaped infodump scenes which and I'm not sure how could be successfully excised without a Adywan style reworking.
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Ideally a Silent Hill film should reveal as few plot details as possible and then present them in a Carnival Of Souls/Lost Highway fashion.
I rather liked the Sean Bean subplot but removing it does make for a more focused female story.
That is somewhat hamstrung by the production decision to use designs from the male led games.
Vile distortions of fetishistic nurses work in a story about a sexual repressed man but as Rose shows no signs of being remotely lesbian they don't quite fit here.
However the Janitor plays on female horror and arguably Pyramid Head shifts to be a male predator rather than his original incarnation as an expression of self punishing male guilt.
The scenes shifted to flashbacks didn't need to be in monochrome but their repositioning was skillfully done.
Toning down a few lines of dialogue was good I wish a few more lines had been cut too.
The ending could do with a bit of a tone down too but I'm not sure how to do that either (some of the barbed wire attacks would work better obscured by darkness and as awful as Alice Krige's character is the barbed wire 'intrusion' is a bit too OTT for my taste).
On the whole it's a much better version of the film than the original, which is the best video game adaptation I've yet seen.
3 balls out of 5 for the film
4 balls out of 5 for the general improvement over the original.