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An American Haunting (2005)
Decent, but questionable
This appears to be a fantastic movie until you reach a point where the movie begins to "explain" some things a little better. Once this happens, the confusion begins for me.
I finished the movie being confused about why the hauntings began. And, since we're shown, finally, the part the father plays in the attacks on the girl, then how do we make sense of the other events, like the scene where she's dragged up the steps while everyone, including her father, watches.
Maybe it's just me, but there's a great many movies out now that are really good except for their endings.
Silent Hill (2006)
Peculiar
I've never seen or even heard of the game "Silent Hill", but if they're going to turn a game into a movie, they should at least make sure 'everyone' is familiar with it.
The movie was okay as far as movie-making techniques go, but the storyline & ending were rather confusing. At the end of the movie, I, like many others, was thoroughly confused.
What was the whole point? I mean, just because some of the townspeople thought the girl was sin incarnate & wanted to burn her, the whole town is turned into a hell of sorts? Seemed like overkill to me.
Of course, not being of the gaming generation, perhaps my opinions are blurred by old fashioned ideas of what a horror movie should be. I just felt they should at least make sense all the way through it.