Silent Hill heads to DVD and Blu-ray in August

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By Patrick Luce Jun 23, 2006, 18:54 GMT

Enter the darkness when Sony Pictures Home Entertainment releases Silent Hill, the action-packed horror film based on the best selling video game about a little girl drawn to an abandoned town, on Blu-ray Disc for the suggested retail price of $38.95, and PSP and DVD for the suggested retail price of $28.95 on August 22nd.

Staring Radha Mitchell (Finding Neverland, Man on Fire) and Sean Bean (The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Flightplan) and directed by Chrisophe Gans, Silent Hill delivered more than $20 million as the #1 film its opening weekend and will debut on DVD in widescreen and full-screen versions with bonus features including a 6-part production diary.

Based on the best-selling horror action game, Silent Hill stars Radha Mitchell (Man on Fire) as Rose, a desperate mother who takes her adopted daughter, Sharon, to the town of Silent Hill in an attempt to cure her of her ailment. After a violent car crash, Sharon disappears and Rose begins her desperate search to get her back. She descends into a fog of smoldering ash and into the center of the twisted reality of a town's terrible secret. Pursued by grotesquely deformed creatures and a townspeople stuck in permanent purgatory, Rose begins to uncover the truth behind the apocalyptic disaster that burned the town 30 years back.The DVD will come loaded with special features including:Path of Darkness: Six Silent Hill Theatrical Filming Production Diaries:
Part One: Origins of Silent Hill
Part Two: Casting the film
Part Three: Building Silent Hill (the town)
Part Four: Stars and Stunts
Part Five: Creature Choreography
Part Six: Constructing the Creepy Creatures from the filmSilent Hill is now available for pre-order at Amazon. As of yet, there is not a release date for the UK. Visit the DVD database for more information. The Blu-ray version is also available for pre-order at Amazon. Visit the DVD database for more information.

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