White Noise (2005)
Average Rating: 3.5/10
Reviews Counted: 147
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 134
While there are some built-in scares, the movie is muddled and unsatisfying.
Average Rating: 3.4/10
Critic Reviews: 35
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 32
While there are some built-in scares, the movie is muddled and unsatisfying.
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Average Rating: 2.7/5
User Ratings: 171,765
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Divorced architect Jonathan Rivers (Michael Keaton) seems to lead a pretty good life with partial custody of his young son and a happy second marriage to Anna (Chandra West), a best-selling author. Things take an ugly turn when Anna disappears during a thunderstorm, apparently the victim of a freak accident. Eventually, her body is found, and Jonathan sinks into despair. Then he meets Raymond (Ian McNeice), who claims that Anna has contacted him through EVP, or electronic voice phenomena.
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Cast
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Michael Keaton
Jonathan Rivers -
Chandra West
Anna Rivers -
Deborah Kara Unger
Sarah Tate -
Ian McNeice
Raymond Price -
Sarah Strange
Jane -
Nicholas Elia
Mike Rivers -
Mike Dopud
Detective Smits -
Marsha Regis
Police Woman -
Micki Maunsell
Edith Tomlinson -
Suzanne Ristic
Mary Freeman -
Peter Bryant
Man -
Anthony Harrison
Doctor -
April Telek
John's Secretary -
Benita Ha
TV Reporter -
Bruce Dawson
Mark -
L. Harvey Gold
Business Man -
Amber Rothwell
Susie Tomlinson -
Mitchell Kosterman
Work Man -
Aaron Douglas
Young Father -
Brad Sihvon
Minister -
Keegan Connor Tracy
Mirabelle Keegan -
Miranda Frigon
Car Crash Woman -
Anastasia Corbett
Young Girl -
Ross Birchall
Young Boy -
Bill Tarling
Presence #1 -
Chuck Walkinshaw
Presence #2 -
Colin Chapin
Presence #3 -
Michale Ascher
Woman
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All Critics (150) | Top Critics (36) | Fresh (15) | Rotten (138) | DVD (37)
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.
Top CriticWhite 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.
Thrill-free thriller.
There's no horror to speak of.
Even if its dorky climax throws you out of the mood again, there are staticky bits of White Noise that still manage to cling.
Too silly to describe, much less analyze.
Dumb would-be thriller -- save your money.
I was pleased nonetheless with convincing acting, well spread tension and suspense, and a great concept.
A messy cheesecake of supernatural horror without scaring the pants off its audience, nor making any real sense.
Something evil this way comes without much nerve-jangling fanfare (most of the screams came from the soundtrack rather than the audience) or conviction (portal schmortal).
Is the movie scary? Only if this is your first scary movie.
The paranormal phenomenon surely has its millions of converts, but White Noise is so silly, it just may turn many into non-believers.
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 not a bad movie like some have made it out to be; it's just not very interesting.
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