there is definitely a strong resemblance to silent hill. in my honest opinion the dark is much better than silent hill, for the following reasons.
1. major studio budget vs. no budget. both have the same scares.
2. jodell ferland vs. abigail stone. equally talented child actresses.
3. based off an amazing video game with a screenplay horrendously altered changing the story completely trying to have a political church and state separation message and changing the lead from the father to the mother to gain a sympathetic feeling among viewers instead of the original in the game where it was a horrific depiction of a single father desperately searching through his fears. vs. a story based off of a book heavily dealing with welsh mythology. treating the subject matter as a device for the story, not a political agenda.
4. the need to use cgi for scares vs. using practical effects for scares.
silent hill comes out on top with the lead actress though, the female lead in the dark was about as good an actor as the cop in silent hill... thats just ridiculously bad, and quite humorous at times.
as for saying silent hill is the ultimate horror film, you must have been a sheltered child, or are still a child yourself to have not seen any real horror films. some classic great horror films being the shining, audrey rose, rosemary's baby, alien, the living dead trilogy,etc. some modern ones... 28 days later, nearly any film by takashi miike, original j-horror films (not the terrible american remakes), etc. theres too many real horror films out there to list. really what im saying is neither silent hill or the dark are 'ultimate' horror films. rather they are decent scary movies worthy of a single watch.
yea thats about it.
~J~
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