In the 2006 film Silent Hill, Rose searches for her daughter in the town of Silent Hill.
The film follows Rose Da Silva as she travels to the abandoned West Virginia town after her adopted daughter Sharon repeatedly says its name. A road accident separates Rose from Sharon, and Rose enters a nightmarish version of the town filled with ash, fog, monsters, and shifting realities.
Silent Hill is adapted from Konami’s survival-horror video-game series. The movie uses imagery associated with the games but creates its own plot and character relationships. Its central mystery concerns Alessa Gillespie, a girl whose suffering and supernatural powers shape the town’s horror.
The title is unrelated to the Greek Pandora myth, but both stories use a contained place or object whose opening reveals hidden dangers. Silent Hill’s town is fictional, despite the film placing it in West Virginia.