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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 frighteningthe 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
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