In Silent Hill: Revelation, director Michael J. Bassett delivers a direct sequel to the 2006 horror film Silent Hill. Loosely based on the third Silent Hill video game, Revelation centers on Heather Mason (Adelaide Clemens), who discovers on her eighteenth birthday that her presumed identity may be false after she's plagued by horrific nightmares. Soon, the disappearance of Heather's father (Sean Bean) spurs the teen's return to the demonic town of Silent Hill, where she and a fellow schoolmate (Kit Harington) must traverse through the terrors within.
In this case, Heather is the audience surrogate, who coincidentally has no memory of what happened to her as a child. As a result, what little story is here gets condensed into longwinded expositional scenes directly explained by various characters. Silent Hill: Revelation is a capital offender against the preferred "show, don't tell" method of storytelling and more often than not subjects the viewer to confusing and seemingly irrelevant plot.
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