White Noise (2005)

Release date: 2005-01-07
Country: UK|Canada|USA
Language: English
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Production Co: Universal Pictures, Gold Circle Films, White Noise UK Ltd.
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Rating: 5.5/10
Length: 1h 41min

Storyline

The car of successful author Anna Rivers is found disabled next to the river, the thought being that she accidentally fell into the river while trying to change a flat tire. Her dead body is found upstream several weeks later, consistent with the accidental death theory. Based on incidents around him, her grieving husband, architect Jonathan Rivers, decides several months later to visit with Raymond Price, who approached John prior to Anna's body being found with news that she was trying to contact him from beyond. At that time, John was skeptical of Raymond's claims of electronic voice phenomena (EVP): that he is contacted from the beyond through electronic means - radio, television - which he is able to record. Along with Sarah Tate, another of Raymond's "clients" whose fiancé passed away, John becomes obsessed with EVP as he gets more and more audio and video messages, however fuzzy, from Anna from beyond. That obsession takes a slight change in focus when John believes that Anna ...

Plot Keywords

reporter, doctor, baby, suspense, psychic, supernatural power, paranormal phenomena, color in title, falling from height, videotape, boy, loss of wife, church, shot to death, flashlight, gunshot, apparition, bruise, inspector, abduction

Short Review

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.