Ghost Ship and Silent Hill

I wonder if Ghost Shop influenced the Silent Hill movie? Wait... the first Silent Hill video game already existed before Ghost Ship was filmed, so maybe it all started with the video game. I have never played it, I don't know what it was like.

Just the LOOK of both movies is very similar. The settings. All the rust on the walls and metal structures in the ship, is very similar to the rust on every surface in the old mining town, especially when they go into the most hellish dimension. Also, when Greer in Ghost Ship is about to be killed by the chanteuse, he is standing in the middle of that large open area, and... the way it reverts to its original, clean, 1962 appearance just reminds me a LOT of the Silent Hill movie. I don't know which was the model for the other, but they look very similar. Like, the way the old scraps of weathered paint rise back up and re-adhere to the ceiling... that was one of the defining effects of Silent Hill, as far as I'm concerned.

Also, the idea that a ghostly little girl is the key to everything. Emily Browning in Ghost Ship is not AS important to the plot as Alessa is, in Silent Hill, but she's pretty important. She reveals a lot of information to the main character. ALSO, she is similar to Alessa because she is a wronged innocent... she's not exactly the same as Alessa, but they have that in common.

Another major similarity is just the idea that the main setting for the story is a sort of purgatory. Not all of the souls trapped there are evil, but many of them are, and in both movies there needs to be some kind of pretty massive upheaval if the innocent souls are ever going to be set free.

Also, I kept wanting to call the Desmond Harrington character Quinn. No, wait... that has nothing to do with anything.

Soooo anyway. Yeah. Lots of little parallels. Had to share.