Silent Hill (film)/Characters

Characters from the Silent Hill movie. For the characters of the video game the movie was based on see: 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.
 * Action Mom
 * Catch Phrase: "SHARON!"
 * Distaff Counterpart / Gender Flip: The film was originally meant to feature the game's hero Harry Mason, but the director changed him to Rose due to apparently being very feminine.
 * Fright Deathtrap: Rose and Sharon are nearly killed in their SUV when Dark Alessa walks into the road.
 * Knight Templar Parent: Rose is willing to help Alessa butcher the Cult members if it means getting Sharon back.
 * Mama Bear
 * Took a Level In Badass

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,
 * Executive Meddling: The producers requested the character's role to be expanded, which may have been a good thing if
 * 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.
 * Badass Normal
 * Fair Cop
 * Friend on the Force
 * Gunpoint Banter
 * Reasonable Authority Figure
 * Reasonable Authority Figure
 * Reasonable Authority Figure

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.
 * Abusive Parent: She doesn't mean to be.
 * The Atoner
 * Redemption Quest: She essentially wants to get this, and achieves it by the end of the film.
 * What Have I Done
 * Woman Scorned

Officer Thomas Gucci
"Played By: Kim Coates"

A police officer who has a connection to Silent Hill, having  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.
 * Good Is Not Nice
 * Knight in Sour Armor
 * Reasonable Authority Figure
 * The Reveal:

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,
 * Body Horror:
 * Cruel and Unusual Death
 * Eerie Pale-Skinned Redhead
 * The Ingenue: To an extent.
 * Innocent Bystander
 * Tagalong Kid: Despite being about thirty years old.

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
 * Big Bad
 * Body Horror / Cruel and Unusual Death:
 * Burn the Witch / Kill It with Fire
 * Corrupt Church: Leader of one.
 * Karmic Death / Hoist by His Own Petard:
 * Manipulative Bitch: She's fooled her followers for over thirty years to burn innocent women.
 * Religion of Evil
 * Smug Smiler

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, her good side. She lures her good side to Silent Hill to get her revenge.
 * Apocalypse Maiden
 * Being Tortured Makes You Evil
 * Body Horror: The damage done to her burnt body.
 * Break the Cutie
 * Combat Tentacles: Made of barbed wire.
 * Creepy Child
 * Dark and Troubled Past: She was abused by her schoolmates, raped by the school janitor, and then burnt alive by the town's crazy cult of witch hunters.
 * Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette
 * Expy:
 * Fusion Dance:
 * Little Miss Badass
 * Psychic Powers
 * Psychotic Smirk:
 * Roaring Rampage of Revenge
 * Room Full of Crazy: Alessa's hospital room.
 * The Speechless: After being burned.

Sharon Da Silva
"Played By: Jodelle Ferland"

The adoptive daughter of Rose and Christopher, Sharon is actually. 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
 * All Just a Dream: Rose tries to convince Sharon that everything is just a bad dream. And this after she's been tied up, watched, and
 * Break the Cutie
 * Happily Adopted
 * Helpless Good Side
 * Madness Mantra: "Silent Hill!"
 * Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book: Sharon's drawings depict her nightmarish memories of Silent Hill.

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.
 * Blood Lust: She wishes to dance in the blood of the cult members, which she gets to do in the film's climax.
 * Creepy Child: And she knows it.
 * Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette
 * I Have Many Names
 * Psychotic Smirk
 * Roaring Rampage of Revenge: And boy, does she want it.
 * Satan: Not exactly, but she seems to share some similarities.
 * Slasher Smile
 * Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl: Sort of.

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.
 * Abandoned Hospital
 * The Cameo
 * Eye Scream
 * Facial Horror
 * Hospital Hottie
 * Innocent Bystander
 * Nosebleed: Also an eye bleed, ear bleed, head bleed, and full facial bleed.

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.
 * Body Horror
 * Hollywood Acid: It takes out Cybil's police helmet, jacket and shades.
 * Not a Zombie
 * Silly Walk

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).
 * Body Horror: Their skin and facial features are twisted around so their faces are on the sides of their heads.
 * Creepy Children
 * Cry for the Devil

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.
 * Abandoned Hospital
 * Battleaxe Nurse
 * Marionette Motion

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,
 * BFS: The Great Knife that he carries around with him.
 * Cool Helmet
 * Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: He tries to do this to Rose and Cybil.
 * Implacable Man