An architect's desire to speak with his wife from beyond the grave using EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomenon), becomes an obsession with supernatural repercussions.
White Noise is little more than an old-fashioned ghost story with a newfangled twist.
– Nathan Rabin,
AV Club,
6 Oct 2006
rotten:
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.
– Christy Lemire,
Associated Press,
26 Feb 2007
rotten:
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.