'Silent Hill' Takes 'Scary' Crown

“Silent Hill” won the weekend boxoffice fisticuffs match with “Scary Movie 4,” grabbing the top spot with a $20.2 million bow.

Despite the cold reception from critics (RottenTomatoes.com currently has “Silent” listed at 24 percent), Sony TriStar’s treatment of the first game in the popular survival horror series averaged $6,904 on 2,926 screens.

Pic scored high sales with teens, with 67% of the audience under 25 years old – and surprisingly, only 55% male.

The critical reaction certainly isn’t what many vidgame fans hoped for in the first game-to-movie translation in recent memory that actually tries to stick to the source material somewhat (and doesn’t rely on camp. I’m looking at you “Mortal Kombat”). However, the box office numbers seem to indicate there will be another Silent Hill movie in the future.