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.
White Noise
The line separating the living from the dead has been crossed.
2005 · 1h 38m · PG-13
Drama, Horror, Thriller
Directed by
Geoffrey Sax
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White Noise
Overview
An architect's desire to speak with his wife from beyond the grave using EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomenon), becomes an obsession with supernatural repercussions.
Director and cast
- Geoffrey Sax Director
- Michael Keaton as Jonathan Rivers
- Deborah Kara Unger as Sarah Tate
- Chandra West as Anna Rivers
- Ian McNeice as Raymond Price
- Sarah Strange as Jane
- Nicholas Elia as Mike Rivers
- Mike Dopud as Detective Smits
- Marsha Regis as Police Woman
- Brad Sihvon as Minister
- Mitchell Kosterman as Work Man
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
White 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.
White Noise is little more than an old-fashioned ghost story with a newfangled twist.
Thrill-free thriller.
There's no horror to speak of.
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