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White Noise (2005)
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Reviews Counted: 143
Fresh: 12
Rotten:131
Average Rating: 3.5/10
Consensus: While there are some built-in scares, the movie is muddled and unsatisfying.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for violence, disturbing images and language.
Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins
Genre: Afterlife, Thriller, Videos, Paranormal
Theatrical Release:Jan 7, 2005 Wide
Box Office: $55,865,715
Synopsis: People have always searched for a way to communicate with the other side--fascinated, motivated, driven to find a way to connect with loved ones who have passed on. Electronic Voice Phenomenon... People have always searched for a way to communicate with the other side--fascinated, motivated, driven to find a way to connect with loved ones who have passed on. Electronic Voice Phenomenon (EVP) is the process through which the dead communicate with the living through household recording devices. These extraordinary recordings--captured by people all over the world, in their homes, with a simple tape or video recorder--seem to confirm what many of us have dared to believe: it is possible for the dead to communicate with us. And all we have to do is listen. Now, from Universal Pictures and Gold Circle Films comes the suspense thriller that explores this very-real, other-worldly communication--White Noise. Tapping into our deepest fears and most profound longings, White Noise forces us to re-examine the world in which we live and, in the process, question our most basic notions about life and death. Michael Keaton plays successful architect Jonathan Rivers, whose peaceful existence is shattered by the unexplained disappearance and death of his wife, Anna (Chandra West). Jonathan is eventually contacted by a man (Ian McNeice), who claims to be receiving messages from Anna through EVP. At first skeptical, Jonathan then becomes convinced of the messages' validity, and is soon obsessed with trying to contact her on his own. His further explorations into EVP and the accompanying supernatural messages unwittingly open a door to another world, allowing something uninvited into his life. White Noise is directed by veteran television helmer Geoffrey Sax, written by Niall Johnson (The Big Swap), and produced by Paul Brooks (executive producer of My Big Fat Greek Wedding) and Shawn Williamson (House of the Dead). -- © Universal Pictures [More]
Starring: Michael Keaton, Deborah Kara Unger, Chandra West, Ian McNeice
Starring: Michael Keaton, Deborah Kara Unger, Chandra West, Ian McNeice, Nicholas Elia, Sarah Strange, Mike Dopud, Mitchell Kosterman, Keegan Connor Tracy, Miranda Frigon, April Telek, Aaron Douglas
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Screenwriter: Niall Johnson
Producer: Paul Brooks, Shawn Williamson
Studio: Universal Pictures
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Reviews for White Noise
The paranormal phenomenon surely has its millions of converts, but White Noise is so silly, it just may turn many into non-believers.
Though I'm well disposed toward elliptical spook stories that depend on the audience's imagination for their jolts and effects, it takes art as well as craft to put them across, and Geoffrey Sax's direction of a Niall Johnson script has neither.
White noise is intended to help you fall asleep. White Noise would never let you do that, though. It's far too interested in a cacophony of cheap scares.
Some of its filmic devices seem a little hokey for a movie that is apparently trying to persuade us that EVP is a real phenomenon.
White Noise is little more than an old-fashioned ghost story with a newfangled twist.
The only problem is that there's just not that much of a reason to sit up and check out what all of the noise is about.
The soundtrack and crackling static, contorting into mysterious moans, create a chilling mood, but the characters are so thin.
White Noise is a lifeless affair that strives to take our money while aggravating and annoying us, a niche already filled by the Rainforest Café.
Scenes went unenlightened, plot points left unanswered, cheap thrills went unimproved.
Through it all Keaton furrows his brow with impressive intensity. But his efforts are hampered by a script which requires him to do the exact opposite of what any right-minded individual would do in his circumstances.
'Mejor hay que esperar hasta que salga en DVD. Por lo menos los extras deben traer algo más interesante'
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May 02, 2006:
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April 27, 2006:
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April 26, 2006:
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March 14, 2006:
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