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White Noise
2005
In the 1920s, Thomas Edison speculated that a device would be created which would allow humans to conduct conversations with the dead. In the 1970s, Sarah Estep picked up some mysterious voices on her husband's reel-to-reel tape recorder, and set up the American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP) to help track the .. Read more
| Starring | Michael Keaton, Deborah Kara Unger, Ian McNeice, Chandra West |
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| Director | Geoffrey Sax |
| Genres | Thriller |
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White Noise
In the 1920s, Thomas Edison speculated that a device would be created which would allow humans to conduct conversations with the dead. In the 1970s, Sarah Estep picked up some mysterious voices on her husband's reel-to-reel tape recorder, and set up the American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP) to help track the phenomenon. In 2005, following a welter of evidence gathered by Estep and others, EVP forms the backbone for director Geoffrey Sax's shocking feature film WHITE NOISE. Architect Jonathan Rivers (Michael Keaton) has little time to mourn the passing of his wife Anna (Chandra West) when he starts receiving signals from her. A faint sound of her voice is caught by Rivers in radio static on the night of her death, followed by incessant cell phone calls coming from Anna's old number. Rivers is convinced he can hear Anna's voice saying 'go, Jon' to him in the resulting calls. With a little help from expert EVP practitioner Raymond Price (Ian McNeice), Rivers contacts Anna and begins a hazy dialect with her. From the garbled dialogue Rivers receives, he deduces that Anna is sending him to save the lives of people who are about to die. This joins Rivers, in his plight, with a former client of Price's, Sarah Tate (Deborah Kara Unger). However, meddling with messages from the dead leads the pair into a world of trouble, producing some startlingly anxious moments, and a spine-chilling forewarning of the possible consequences facing real-life users of EVP.
| Starring | Michael Keaton, Deborah Kara Unger, Ian McNeice, Chandra West, Colin Chapin |
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| Director | Geoffrey Sax |
| Studio | ENTERTAINMENT IN VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 37 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | 100 Horror Films |
| Genres | Thriller |
| Language | English |
| Released | DVD: 09 May 2005 Production year: 2005 |
| Format | DVD |
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Critics' reviews (3)
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Michael Keaton is hearing voices from beyond the grave in this feature debut from the director of BBC period drama Tipping the Velvet. This slow-moving supernatural thriller sees Keaton obsessively communicating with his deceased wife via paranormal messages. Captured as “white noise” on his TV and other electronic devices, the eerie snippets appear to be guiding him to save others from death. What unfolds is a dangerous race against time that is meant to be twisting and dramatic but is actually rather dull. Unfortunately, director Geoffrey Sax doesn't know how to build up tension, annoyingly telegraphing the film's intentions in every frame. It's an example of the lazy school of chills, where loud bangs and sudden surges of music replace genuine jolts — although with the incessant signposting of the plot, even that cheap trick fails. Ultimately, taped static and disembodied whispers simply aren't scary, particularly when they're topped off by such a ridiculous finale.
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Morbid uninvolving thriller concerning ghosts in the machine or EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomenon) which involves messages contained in the static of TV and radio transmissions.
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136 out of 174 people found this review helpful
White Noise
By using EVP a man is contacted by his wife, who was (how do I put this without ruining the ending) tragically killed.
This movie is extremlley thrilling, gripping and quite scary. Infact I jumped out of my seat several times, and once I was even so supprised I let out a scream.
Furthermore the subject of Electronic Voice Phenomena is well represented. Reasearch was done extremley well by Geoffrey Sax and I really do respect that. It is worth pointing out that because it is a holywood movie made to make money some parts are, shall we say, over exaggerated.
Admitteley the ending could have been done slightly better, which is why I can only give 4 stars, but other than that an amazing movie.
This movie is on at the cinema now (January 2005) and is a must see. Must see at least twice that is. -
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
Rather far fetched
The subject of EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena) was an interesting topic to base the film on; it just wasn’t scary enough for me. The special effects were average the story line towards the end stated to dwindle. Overall it was an average film.
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White Noise
In the 1920s, Thomas Edison speculated that a device would be created which would allow humans to conduct conversations with the dead. In the 1970s, Sarah Estep picked up some mysterious voices on her husband's reel-to-reel tape recorder, and set up the American Association of Electronic Voice ...
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