When her adoptive father (Sean Bean) is kidnapped by cultists, young Hannah (Adelaide Clemens) and too-good-to-be-true-but-too-bland-to-be-bad new friend Vincent (Kit Harington) return to the cursed town of Silent Hill for more 3D spookiness.
This affectless sequel to the computer game adaptation uses so many of Clive Barker’s ideas it could be classified as Hellraiser fan-fic, but the S-M demons with their clanking chains and sewn-shut faces offer only a few passing distractions amid the expertly-crafted emptiness. Carrie-Anne Moss, Radha Mitchell, Malcolm McDowell and Deborah Kara Unger pop in for tiny bits, leaving the young leads to struggle earnestly with terrible dialogue as the plot stutters from level to level with no discernible point in sight. Writer-director Michael Bassett regroups after the underperformance of Solomon Kane and just punches the clock on this one.
