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Perhaps your faith will protect you. Perhaps not.
~ Christabella

Christabella is the main antagonist of the 2006 film Silent Hill, the first installement of the Silent Hill film series.

She is the leader of a fanatical religious cult known as The Brethren. She is also the sister of Dahlia Gillespie and Claudia Wolf and the aunt of Alessa Gillespie.

She was portrayed by Alice Krige, who also portrayed Mary Brady in Sleepwalkers, Morgana le Fay in Disney's The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Holda in Gretl & Hansel, Gillian Booth in Law & Order: Criminal; Intent, and the Borg Queen in the Star Trek universe.

Biography[]

Christabella is the manipulative high priestess of the Brethren and almost all of the residents of Silent Hill were her followers. She stresses the importance of maintaining purity by purging sin (aka sacrificing people she deemed as sin incarnate) to please her cult's god. The sacrifices were carried out in a secret chamber in Room 111 in the Grand Hotel, containing a painting of Christabella's possible ancestor being burnt as a witch. Dark Alessa mentions that "they have met many times" at the chamber, indicating that Christabella has killed countless innocent individuals in the past.

Before she and her religious group were trapped in the Fog World, Christabella also worked as the headmistress at Midwich Elementary School. There, she tries to indoctrinate most of the students into adhering to the doctrines of the Brethren.

After Christabella's sister, Dahlia gave birth to a daughter out of wedlock, Christabella had the child condemned as a witch. Alessa was bullied and abused by her peers daily, while the members of the cult and her aunt not only allowed it, but encouraged it. After Alessa was molested in the school bathroom by a janitor to escape from the bullying at the age of nine, Christabella convinced Dahlia that she needed to be "purified", calling her "filth" and saying her innocence must be restored. Christabella then had Alessa laid over a bed of burning coals to be burned alive as a witch. When one of the chains holding Alessa in place had broken, Christabella and her followers fled from their secret church. All of the members of the cult, including Christabella, were then pulled into the Otherworld after Alessa split her soul and started taking revenge. Rose Da Silva meets Christabella after she and Cybil Bennett flee to the local church to hide from the coming Darkness. Christabella becomes agitated when Cybil fires a shot in the church to stop the cult members from attacking Rose, declaring that the church is a "sanctuary" and casting an ugly look at Cybil and Rose. She then questions the two women on how they came to be in Silent Hill, and agrees to lead them to the local hospital, where she says a demon lies in wait. When Christabella discovers that Rose's adoptive daughter, Sharon, is identical to Alessa, she has her followers attempt to kidnap Rose and Cybil to prevent them from going down to the hospital's basement. Rose escapes, but Christabella orders her men to beat Cybil as she lays on the ground bleeding.

Christabella then deduces where Sharon might be and goes to the apartment of her now mad sister, Dahlia, above the store called "Nathan Drugs" in Silent Hill where she finds Sharon and kidnaps her along with Dahlia as a punishment for protecting Sharon.

At the church, Christabella has Cybil burned alive as a witch, and attempts to do the same to Sharon when Rose arrives. Christabella stabs Rose with a dagger in the act of wrath, causing Alessa's dark essence to spill out of her and to overtake the church. Christabella and her followers were in horror that Alessa and Dark Alessa are inside the church and Alessa begins their revenge on them starting with Christabella. Alessa then rise into the church with mounds of rusted barbed wire, which Alessa then uses to brutally rape and sodomize Christabella. The barbed wire exits Christabella's body through her back, chest, and mouth; eventually tearing her in half. As Christabella dies, Dark Alessa dances in her blood.

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Trivia[]

  • Alice Krige wore blue contacts during filming, most likely to match the eye color of Jodelle Ferland and Deborah Kara Unger. They also might highlight Christabella's cold and unforgiving nature.
  • Alice Krige herself did not particularly enjoy the role, feeling that her character was too manipulative and evil.
  • It is revealed that in Silent Hill: Revelation, her cult was conniving with The Order despite seemingly opposing each other. They ultimately aim to impregnate Alessa with God as it could only work on people possessing psychic powers. However, they believed Alessa was sin incarnate, which required Christabella to "purify" to prepare her body for impregnation, which of course, backfired severely.
  • Christabella has many similarities with the Silent Hill 3 character Claudia Wolf:
    • Both have passionate spiritual beliefs.
    • Both are leaders to their religious devotees.
    • Both want to cleanse sin with fire.
    • Used seemingly ceremonial daggers used to stab someone (with Rose Da Silva being stabbed once but survived before the wrath of Alessa's dark half upon the Brethren's Church compound occurred, and "Father" Vincent Smith only murdered twice at The Chapel).
  • In Silent Hill: Revelation, though it was never mentioned in the first film Claudia calls Christabella her sister, implying a biological relationship although the connection was never been proven.
  • Christabella was a character created for the film and substitutes Dahlia's villainous role in the videogames. In the videogame, it was Dahlia who abused and immolated Alessa and often called her a "demon" like Christabella.
  • Her name is Latin for "Beautiful Christian" and likely chosen due to all the religious symbolism in the first Silent Hill film, the "Christ" in her name being allusion to Jesus Christ. Her name is ironic as, according to the original script, she is not a Christian.

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The Order
Dahlia Gillespie | Michael Kaufmann | Claudia Wolf (film series) | Vincent Smith | Leonard Wolf (film series) | Missionary | Walter Sullivan | Toby Archbolt | Jimmy Stone | George Rosten | Judge Margaret Holloway | Curtis Ackers | Martin Fitch | Mayor Sam Bartlett | Adam Shepherd | Lillian Shepherd | Jennifer Carroll | Reverend Stone | Order Soldiers

Monsters of Silent Hill
God | The Demon | Samael | Phantom | Pyramid Head | Abstract Daddy | Valtiel | The Butcher | Memory of Alessa | Bogeyman | Blood Mama | Asphyxia | Amnion | Scarlet | Sepulcher | Twin Victim | Mama | Blood Guardian | Parasites | Colin the Janitor | Nurses | Raw Shock | Lisa

The Brethren
Christabella | Anna | Eleanor | Adam | Soldiers

Others
Alessa Gillespie (Dark Alessa) | Alessa | Christabella LaRoache | James Sunderland | Maria | Eddie Dombrowski | Andrew DeSalvo | George Sewell | Anne Marie Cunningham | Patrick Napier | Sanchez | Dr. Aickmann | Lisa's Husband | Lorraine | Walter Sullivan's Parents | Whately | Lenora

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