White Noise (Widescreen Edition)
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Actor: Chandra West, Deborah Kara Unger, Ian McNeice, Michael Keaton, Sarah StrangeBrand: KEATON,MICHAEL
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 98 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-05-17
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of White Noise (Widescreen Edition)
Movie Review: Scary film
Summary: 5 Stars
Geoffrey Sax's "White Noise" is one of the most overlooked, underrated films I have yet to encounter. While I can't claim to have understood everything that takes place in the film, Michael Keaton (what happened to him) does a great job playing Jonathan Winters, a solid sort of everyman with a successful career in architecture and a lovely pregnant wife Anna (Chandra West) who disappears and is eventually found dead.
This is where we are introduced to "EVP" or "Electronic Voice Phenomenon". EVP is a "phenomenon" in which a person "hears the voices of the dead" with the aide of sophisticated audio equipment (or just a tape recorder).
In despair over his wife's disappearance and demise, he makes the acquaintance of an odd man, Raymond Price (Ian McNeice) who insists that his wife has tried to make contact with him through "recordings" he has heard. This man is clearly incautious and is either unaware or indifferent to the dangers this kind of experimentation can produce in a more orthodox spiritual sense. And pretty soon not only is Jonathan a true believer, he is feeding into every "message" he receives from the other side, believing wholeheartedly that Anna is dictating warnings, omens, prophecies to him that he must act on.
And some of them turn out to be accurate. He rescues a man dying in a car, nearly frozen to death, and finds the body of a man's wife. The man wisely enough thanks him and then violently rebukes him at the offer of "joining his sick f**king cult".
An entity begins to hunt Michael, and just about everything he does is cursed in one way or another. He does not heed anything, and this is a chief flaw in the movie: when his best friend, Sarah Tate (Deborah Kara Unger) is levitating on the ledge of a balcony as a result of Michael's continued delving into this dangerous process, he still does not take it as a sign that maybe he should at least slow down. The drive of his character is understandable as a result of losing his wife, but his complete lack of caution is not.
Believe whatever you want about EVP, this is one scary movie that should have gotten more attention. There are extras on the disc about EVP which feature "experts" in the field sharing their "recordings". They are so cocksure that they are tapping into the spirit world that I found it a bit over the top, but people interested might enjoy it. Recommended for the spooky film buff.
Summary of White Noise (Widescreen Edition)
A man believes he is receiving messages from his dead wife via electronic devices with instructions to save the people who are about to die.Genre: Horror
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 14-FEB-2006
Media Type: DVD
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