Silent Hill (film)/Characters

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Characters from the Silent Hill movie. For the characters of the video game the movie was based on see: Silent Hill.

Characters Introduced in Silent Hill

Rose Da Silva

Played By: Radha Mitchell

The Hero of the film, Rose Da Silva goes to Silent Hill to solve what's her daughter's connection to the doomed town is. She turned from a helpless woman to an Action Mom during the course of the film, willing to pretty much do anything to retreive her daughter when she disappears, even making a questionable Deal with the Devil.

Christopher Da Silva

Played By: Sean Bean

Rose's husband who is left behind when his wife and daughter run off to Silent Hill, and spends most of the film playing Sherlock trying to track down Sharon's origins and learns of her connection to Alessa Gileppsie. He has been confirmed to appear in the film's sequel, possibly under the alias of Harry Mason.

  • Executive Meddling: The producers requested the character's role to be expanded, which may have been a good thing if his new identity as Harry Mason for the sequel is brought into account.
  • Henpecked Husband: Rose seems a bit dominating over him.
  • Papa Wolf
  • Sean Bean

Cybil Bennett

Played By: Laurie Holden

A highway patrol cop from Brahams, Cybil pursues Rose and Sharon after realising they're heading to Silent Hill and ends up trapped in the foggy town with them Rose, becoming her Lancer. She sacrifices herself to the Cult to save Rose and is burnt to death.

Dahlia Gillespie

Played By: Deborah Kara Unger

Alessa's mother, Dahlia was convinced by Christabella to "purify" her daughter, leading to Alessa's burning. Dahlia is banished from the Cult after realising the error of her ways, now wandering Silent Hill as the only citizen to be unharmed by Alessa's monsters, and becomes quite frantic when Rose, Cybil and Sharon appear in town.

Officer Thomas Gucci

Played By: Kim Coates

A police officer who has a connection to Silent Hill, having rescued Alessa from the fire and is the only known citizen to escape Silent Hill before Alessa turned it into hell. He accompanies Christopher to Silent Hill to look for Rose and Sharon.

Anna

Played By: Tanya Allen

A citizen of Silent Hill, Anna was born and raised on the Cult's lies and knows very little about the outside world or the town's own history, let alone the crimes the Cult performed on Alessa. Due to her upbringing, she possesses a very childlike demeanour. She hangs around with Rose and Cybil for a while, before being ripped apart by Pyramid Head outside the Cult's chapel.

Christabella

Played By: Alice Krige

The leader of the Cult of Silent Hill, Christabella is a Complete Monster to say the least, leading the crazy cult members to burn Alessa at the stake. Now twice as mad and manipulative, Christabella has fooled the condemned cult members that Alessa is a demon, and the only way to survive is to burn people at the stake. She and the rest of the Cult are the targets of Alessa's justified revenge and meet their well-deserved ends in the bloody climax of the film when Rose allows Alessa to enter the chapel and slice and dice Christabella and co. with barbed wire tentacles.

Alessa Gillespie

Played By: Jodelle Ferland (child) Lorry Ayers (adult)

The Apocalypse Maiden and major Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds, Alessa was nine years old when the Cult accused her of being a witch or a demon and had her burnt at the stake. She survived thanks to the sacrifice being botched, and the arrival of her mother and Officer Gucci. Now a vengeance-seeking Little Miss Badass, Alessa has trapped the Cult members in a nightmarish version of the town and split herself into two different other forms: Dark Alessa, her evil side, and Sharon Da Silva, her good side. She lures her good side to Silent Hill to get her revenge.

Sharon Da Silva

Played By: Jodelle Ferland

The adoptive daughter of Rose and Christopher, Sharon is actually the good side of Alessa. Her strange dreams lead her and Rose to Silent Hill, Sharon disappearing and leading Rose on a wild goose chase around the town of shifting horrors. The Cult try to burn her at the stake, but Rose arrives and has Alessa kill all of them, but Dark Alessa bonds with Sharon, re-creating Alessa.

Dark Alessa

Played By: Jodelle Ferland

The dark side of Alessa, Dark Alessa is a Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl and a Creepy Child, and she knows it. She represents Alessa's anger and desires to have revenge of the Cult. She can manipulate the monsters in Silent Hill, and lures Rose around the town until she reaches Alessa's bedroom in the hospital. When Alessa's revenge finally comes, Dark Alessa relishes in the gore. She later bonds with Sharon to create a new Alessa.

Lisa Garland

An innocent nurse who cared for Alessa after she was burnt. She took a look at Alessa's burnt body and was unintentionally punished by Alessa's wrath, now forced to bleed from her face constantly. Alessa has since come to regret punishing her.

Monsters

Armless Man (Laying Figure)

One of the several monsters in the film, the Armless Man (or Men) is a featureless humanoid thing with its arms wrapped into its ribcage, making it walk about like someone in a straitjacket. It attacks Rose and Cybil, shooting acid at them. It's based on the Lying Figure monster from Silent Hill 2.

Grey Children

An army of wailing, burnt, deformed children that approach Rose during the first time the town shifts into the Otherworld. They may have been Alessa's schoolmates, or more likely, the representation of Alessa after she was burned (they reach out to Rose as if seeking comfort from her, as Alessa wanted her mother after she was burned).

Nurses

Rose encounters an army of twenty odd undead nurses, wrapped in bandages and brandishing weapons. They respond to light and end up attacking each other when Rose sneaks her way through the group to Alessa's hospital room.

Colin the Janitor

Colin the Janitor was the caretaker of the school Alessa went too. It is implied that he rapes her. He pays dearly, his corpse being found by Rose, strung up in a toilet cubicle by barbed wire. It gets worse when his body comes to life and starts crawling across the floor towards Rose.

  • Body Horror: Colin is strung up in barbed wire and when his corpse springs to life, we see his legs have been bound to the back of his head, more barbed wire is going into his eyes, and he is forced to crawl about using his hands only.
  • Bound and Gagged: The first part anyway, his black tongue often dangles out of his mouth.
  • Chained to a Rock: Or changed to a toilet cubicle, and his legs to his head.
  • Crusty Caretaker
  • Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
  • Toilet Cubicle Full Of Crazy: He died in a toilet cubicle where everything is wrapped in barbed wire and words across the wall read "Dare You! Double Dare You!"
  • Walking Wasteland: Colin can rot away anything he touches, as well as summon Creeper insects.

Pyramid Head

The iconic pyramid-helmet wearing Ensemble Darkhorse, Pyramid Head is an executioner-like monster and the most threatening of the monsters seen in the film (the non-human monsters anyway). He appears twice, but he leaves quite an impression, killing poor Anna outside the chapel.

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