Radha Mitchell's adopted somnambulist daughter's night-time wanderings leave her screaming about a place called 'Silent Hill'. Seeking to find the cause of these nightmares, Rose takes her daughter, Sharon, on a road trip to the isolated and abandoned township, which is still smouldering from the underground coal fires that wiped the community off the map 30 years previously. Pursued by her husband and an unfeasibly sexy, leather-clad police woman, Rose finds herself in an alternative world with plenty of freaky creatures and Stygian scenery. This atmospheric horror only loses its way when, presumably for budget reasons, it gets distracted from the journey to hell with its legion of demons, and introduces a bunch of neanderthallike Christian Fundamentalists with a penchant for sacrificing small children born out of wedlock. Adapted from the computer game of the same name.