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White Noise
(2005)

      John Rivers (Michael Keaton) has a perfect life. He is a booming architect, his wife Anna (Chandra West) is an international writer and they have discovered that Anna is pregnant. The day they discover she’s pregnant Anna turns up missing. It seems she had a flat tire, broke her heel, fell onto the rocks and drowned in the river, but homicide hasn’t been ruled out. Weeks after Anna’s disappearance, John notices a man sitting outside his house. Then sees him sitting outside his work. When John confronts the man he introduces himself as Raymond Price (Ian McNeice) and that his wife Anna is dead. She has been trying to contact John through him. Raymond reveals that his son had died a long time ago and a man approached him one day, as he is approaching John. John is really upset by his talk with the man, but he doesn’t throw away his phone number. That night at 2:30 AM the police knock on John’s door and tell him that they found Anna’s body.

      Six months later John has moved into a new apartment. One day, he starts to get phone calls from Anna’s cell phone. Believing it’s Anna, he goes to Raymond’s home. After a few sessions of Anna making contact, Raymond calls John over in the middle of the night. When John gets there he discovers Raymond’s dead body. John then takes over what Raymond was doing and sets up the system at home. Unfortunately, Raymond only briefly mentioned that there are evil ghosts who only want to harm others on the other side. John soon discovers that the EVP is predicting deaths, but perhaps people are dying because they’re involving themselves with EVP in the first place.

You Learn Something New Everyday...

Listening to static is addicting.
It's pretty easy to pretend you're psychic.
The dead are more important than the living.
Death, like nature, is something you shouldn't mess with.

Zing!

Eh, nothing really.

Survey SAYS...

     This movie was really average. They could have done a lot with it, but they left a lot of things untouched. Like, those three shadows. They don’t really elaborate any further then the fact that they appear right before someone dies. Are they killing the people? Are they death? Just angry ghosts that have the ability to murder if you watch the snow screen? If they’re just angry, why do they kill? How come John wasn’t affected the same way that other guy was? That’s just one topic. This whole movie was filled with unanswered questions and plot holes. Why was John's wife helping him? Why do people die after listening to the audio? Etc, etc.

     The end is kind of depressing and hopeless, but the whole movie was so average that I didn’t really care. For some reason, White Noise reminded me a lot of Unbreakable in the sense that they had the power to see things before they happened and tried to do something about it. They really could have taken this movie in a really cool, creepy direction, but they really fell short. Oh well. By the way, I was totally amused at the fact that at the end of the movie that had to write a little disclaimer that throughout the entire history of EVP only one out of twelve of the recordings had a hostile ghost on it. Don’t want to give EVP a bad name or anything. Haha. However, the real life killer in the movie was totally out of left field. The fact that there was a killer is strange when the whole time they didn't even mention that there was a killer on the loose. They pulled that one out of their ass. Like they didn't know how to end it or something.

     If you like...fake 80s lightning, the living obsessing with the dead, unintelligible voices accompanied by loud static, extreme close-ups of video equipment, vigilantism, weak endings, and cheap scares…this is the flick for you. As for us...we give White Noise

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