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Movie Overview
Cast
• Michael Keaton
• Deborah Kara Unger
• Chandra West
Director
• Geoffrey Sax
MPAA Rating
PG-13 - violence, disturbing images, and language
White Noise (2005)

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OFCS Rating: 6% Rotten
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D-
"An effective ad campaign for a colossal mess."  FromTheBalcony  Bill Clark

D
"A listless, troublingly familiar thriller, the last thing White Noise will accomplish with its E.V.P. tale is convincing anybody that this phenomena is real."  FilmJerk.com  Brian Orndorf

"White Noise is about watching static."  PopMatters  Cynthia Fuchs

"White Noise is about watching static."  PopMatters  Cynthia Fuchs

2/5
"Scenes went unenlightened, plot points left unanswered, cheap thrills went unimproved."  eFilmCritic.com  David Cornelius

1/4
"The movie, at least, is spot on in one regard: it respects the long-running tradition of January cinema releases by being both lousy and miscalculated."  Cinemaphile.org  David Keyes

2.5/4
"Though it's not based on an Asian horror film, White Noise sure feels like one..."  Reel Film Reviews  David Nusair

.5/4
"An utterly abysmal wannabe-horror film. Never even remotely frightening—the trailer is worlds above this lame finished product in terms of a visceral response."  TheMovieBoy.com  Dustin Putman

C
"Hearing dead people's voices through static loses its spine-chilling power after a few minutes, and unfortunately, that's about all the film has to offer."  EricDSnider.com  Eric D. Snider

1.5/4
"...a hollow horrorfest immersed in its own conjured-up clumsiness. Sax’s thin-laced thriller is about as suspenseful as an overdue library book waiting to be returned."  Movie Eye  Frank Ochieng

D+
"Pretty much seems a movie about poor television reception--something you can probably get for free at home."  One Guy's Opinion  Frank Swietek

1/4
"There's no horror to speak of."  ReelViews  James Berardinelli

1.5/4
"If you want to see TV static used to better effect in a horror film, go to the video store and rent Poltergeist"  Q Network Film Desk  James Kendrick

"...bad movie, one that takes almost every cue from Poltergeist."  Light Views  John Larsen

1.5/4
"'Mejor hay que esperar hasta que salga en DVD. Por lo menos los extras deben traer algo más interesante' "  Moviola  Jorge Avila Andrade

2/10
"...quickly devolves into ludicrous plotting and cheap shock effects."  All Movie Guide  Josh Ralske

2/5
"As a whole, the film doesn’t fit together. It’s actually three different types of movies ground together into hamburger and splattered on the screen."  7M Pictures  Kevin Carr

D-
"Michael Keaton stares at a fuzzy TV image, waiting for something to happen; we stare at Michael Keaton, waiting for the same."  FilmStew.com  Larry Carroll

D+
"all the chills of a refrigerator's hum"  Reeling Reviews  Laura Clifford

2/5
"[An] atmospheric but deeply stupid thriller..."  TV Guide's Movie Guide  Maitland McDonagh

"‘I see dead people... if I jiggle the antenna a little, that is,’ no one says here, but they might as well."  Flick Filosopher  MaryAnn Johanson

1/4
"Pleases just about no one, neither the viewers looking for a thoughtful supernatural enterprise nor those out for a good scare."  Mr. Brown's Movies  Michael Dequina

1/4
"How pathetic is it that the coming attractions trailer is about a hundred times more eerie than the movie itself?"  Aisle Seat  Mike McGranaghan

C
"A barkingly dumb would-be thriller"  Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies  Nell Minow

1.5/4
"White Noise’s scares mostly wind up lost in transmission."  Slant Magazine  Nick Schager

2/5
"Jamais gasta um minuto que seja para estabelecer melhor as motivações dos personagens."  Cinema em Cena  Pablo Villaca

2/5
"Isn’t very effective as a thriller."  Film Threat  Pete Vonder Haar

2/5
"Is the movie scary? Only if this is your first scary movie."  eFilmCritic.com  Rob Gonsalves

D+
"An interesting idea pulled apart by the expediencies of a grimly formulaic plot."  Flipside Movie Emporium  Rob Vaux

2/5
"Keaton's performance aside, White Noise is astonishingly drab, aimlessly meandering, and entirely beholden to earlier cinematic successes."  eFilmCritic.com  Scott Weinberg

"Even if its dorky climax throws you out of the mood again, there are staticky bits of White Noise that still manage to cling."  Salon.com  Stephanie Zacharek

2/10
"Egad! Is it too early to start assembling my Worst Pictures of 2005 list?"  www.susangranger.com  Susan Granger

2/10
"Egad! Is it too early to start assembling my Worst Pictures of 2005 list? "  Modamag.com  Susan Granger

1.5/4
"A muddled bore of a supernatural thriller that mostly relies on cheap scares to keep you awake."  Reel.com  Timothy Knight
OFCS Rating: 6% Rotten
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