Silent Hill – The Spence Edit
by Spence
This edit shortens the film and focuses it on the character of Rose and the town of Silent Hill.
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(9 votes, average: 6.11 out of 10, rated)
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original film name: Silent Hill
new film name :Silent Hill – The Spence Edit
edit crew name : Spence
Date Original Film Was Released : 2006
Date Edit Was Released : 2006
Original Runtime : 2 hrs. 5 min.
New Runtime : 1 hr. 43 min.
Amount of time Cut/Added : Scenes removed that weren’t directly related to Rose’s storyline. All of Sean Bean’s side plot is gone.
Also the ending has changed, Rose now simply leaves the town, rather than the confusing ending the film originally had.
Cuts removed/added/extended : same as above.
Extras: Sean Bean’s scenes are presented as a short film, complete with the original ending.
Conceptual improvements/advancements of edit over original: This edit shortens the film and focuses it on the character of Rose and the town of Silent Hill. Any scenes not directly relating to her plotline is removed. The film is now more intense and atmospheric, since the other storyline that ruined the pacing. Silent Hill is now the atmospheric, creepy, horrifying film it should have been.
Time needed for the edition:
planning: Since dvd release
editing: one week s
sound editing: one week
DVD layout and features: Christopher’s scenes are presented as their own shortfilm. These scenes work better as a bonus feature, a supplement to the main story. This short film has the original ending preserved as well.
persons involved: Spence
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I saw this over a year ago and never had a chance to write a review. I unfortunately do not have the time now to re-acquaint myself with it. However I can tell you that Spence really the mark for this edit’s intention. Very tight and properly paced. The editing was perfect. In the end I found myself enjoying this over the original which is something that does not happen with me that often–good work!
Review by tranzor — March 14, 2009 @ 5:09 am
Better than the original version. Most of the edits are not noticeable. The only one I picked up was due to the music suddenly cutting off and changing. The cuts listed above are really the only ones made, so many of the faults of the original source (such as the plot dump) are still present.
Review by geiger — September 26, 2009 @ 2:21 am
Sorry, but this did not save SILENT HILL at all from being a crappy movie.
Review by r8s8fr8 — November 27, 2009 @ 7:37 pm
The intention was the correct one. However, the execution left quite a bit to be desired. Given that the Chris sequences prior to Rose entering Silent Hill stay, there’s still too much of him that adds nothing to the story, but that’s the smallest problem. The thing is, there are hard cuts everywhere, particularly in the audio, and nothing that couldn’t have been easily fixed. The removal of the parallel narrative from the school sequence results in a music bit repeatedly looped over the images, and it sounds exactly like that. However, I wouldn’t mind it that much if it weren’t because Chris enjoys a Fight-Club-dick style one-frame cameo in it. Careless. Also, the fade-out-fade-in separating the Sharon capture from the church sacrifice looks too much like a TV cut-to-commercials. There are fades elsewhere in the film, but in those the audio and video fade at different speeds and that helps them work. In the one I mentioned, both fade at the same time, and one half expects an ad to pop up.
A for effort, but I’m afraid this needed much more care in the execution. 3/10.
Review by DwightFry78 — June 6, 2010 @ 8:08 pm