Though the deceased can help Keaton rescue abducted women and babies trapped in cars, not one of them has seen Jimmy Hoffa.
White Noise (2005)
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Reviews Counted:147
Fresh:13
Rotten:134
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: Horror/Suspense
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
If you loved those Batman shots of the actor staring intently at his computer, rest assured that they're approximated over and over again throughout this woefully inert film.
If you can picture Heather O'Rourke crouched before a staticky TV, you know the source, and even a knock-off like Witchboard drew more scares from a similar theme
The rare jolt of adrenaline is meager compensation for the dopey pastiche of every successful supernatural thriller of the last decade.
The filmmakers are obviously hoping that they are making up in mood what they're failing to provide in narrative logic, but a guy staring at static is a guy staring at static.
[Keaton's] being stalked by three shadowy figures that ... look exactly like the Penn-Robbins-Bacon silhouettes that graced the poster for Mystic River.
90 percent of it isn't bad enough to be funny, while 100 percent of it isn't good enough to be good.
How pathetic is it that the coming attractions trailer is about a hundred times more eerie than the movie itself?
Vigorously pushes the supernatural line throughout, but unfortunately its final movement is so incoherent that the whole thing collapses.
Does bad reception on the TV set send shivers down your spine? Me neither.
Egad! Is it too early to start assembling my Worst Pictures of 2005 list?
Unfolds with precision and excellent pacing. It’s been a long while since I’ve been so unnerved in a theater.
...a hollow horrorfest immersed in its own conjured-up clumsiness. Sax’s thin-laced thriller is about as suspenseful as an overdue library book waiting to be returned.
If you're alive, please avoid White Noise. The dead will never forgive you for wasting your time, money, and psychic energy on it.
When it falters, it does so for the same reason certain otherwise perfectly unnerving recent horror movies have -- because the atmosphere of irrational dread is punctured by the demand for a rational explanation.
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