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White Noise

Play trailer Poster for White Noise PG-13 Released Jan 7, 2005 1h 38m Mystery & Thriller Drama Horror Play Trailer Watchlist
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7% Tomatometer 148 Reviews 31% Popcornmeter 100,000+ Ratings
Architect Jonathan Rivers (Michael Keaton) is happily married to author Anna (Chandra West), but tragedy strikes when she is killed in an accident. Deep in grief, Jonathan hears from Raymond Price (Ian McNeice), who claims that he has intercepted messages from Anna via electronic voice phenomena. Jonathan eventually comes to believe Raymond's claims, but, as he is drawn further into investigating the phenomenon, a sinister supernatural presence invades his life.
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While there are some built-in scares, the movie is muddled and unsatisfying.

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Namrata Joshi Outlook Koel Purie has a nice blithe presence. Unfortunately, White Noise does not prove to be an adequate stage for her. Rated: 1/4 Jan 8, 2019 Full Review Nell Minow Common Sense Media Dumb would-be thriller -- save your money. Rated: 2/5 Dec 29, 2010 Full Review Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader 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. Feb 28, 2007 Full Review Matt Brunson Film Frenzy White Noise asks viewers to accept Electronic Voice Phenomenon (EVP) as cold, hard fact, and then proceeds to spin a fantasy yarn that flubs its own narrative constraints. Rated: 1.5/4 Jul 15, 2023 Full Review Brian Orndorf Blu-ray.com A lazy, muddled snooze that happily tenders pure fantasy to those with an endless curiosity about the hereafter. Rated: D Sep 21, 2020 Full Review Kathi Maio The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Sadly, there are a hundred possible scenarios that might have made more sense than the gobbledygook plot White Noise ends up presenting... Feb 28, 2020 Full Review Read all reviews

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Brandon X White noise is a slower pace psychological thriller/ suspense, watched this movie upon dvd release. Rented it from the local Block Buster and had great family movie night. I was absolutely terrified as a youngster watching this movie. Keaton was amazing as always. Have watched it again recently, its a great pop-corn flick! It's not supposed to be scientifically accurate, so all you bozos that rated it one star due to that.. are the same bozos that believe that youtubers with rem-pods are actually speaking to ghosts. Nothing about the paranormal is scientific and y'all need help if you thought this was going to be anything but a blockbuster popcorn flick. Purely for what it is, its 10/10, great for those with wild imaginations, this movie is ment to make you think and scare yourself. Doesnt have many jump scares which horror movies survive on, its still better then most horror movies on Netflix. This may not end up being your favorite movie, but its certainly worth the watch and deserves much more then a 7% Rotten score. Im not the most critical when it comes to movie reviews but in my personal opinion this movie still holds up. I think alot of your reviewers here are hyper-critical and id like to ask them if theyve got a movie in this category that they actually have a positive review for. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/07/25 Full Review Alexander S White Noise effectively conveys its unsettling premise, particularly for someone like me who has phasmophobia, however, the story gradually loses its momentum and fails to deliver a satisfying conclusion. Grading: C- Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/05/25 Full Review Cleber B Esse filme requer duas características especiais por parte de quem vai assisti-lo. Primeiro, o espectador deve ser altamente sugestionável. Segundo, é imprescindível que seja espiritualista, Kardecista ou tenha uma religião afrodescendente. Só assim o filme faz algum sentido. A fé nos fenômenos que o filme mostra é condição sine qua non para sua apreciação. Esse filme não é cinema, é religião. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/30/25 Full Review Audience Member I genuinely love this film, the writing was great in particular. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 08/07/24 Full Review Audience Member This movie was still good to watch after 17 years. Not sure why everyone gave it bad ratings. I enjoyed Rated 4 out of 5 stars 09/11/22 Full Review Audience Member White noise fails at making the audience care for the main character. White noise is just a collection of paranormal events that link somehow to EVP. The acting was bland and so was everything else. A very stereotypical ghost flick. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Architect Jonathan Rivers (Michael Keaton) is happily married to author Anna (Chandra West), but tragedy strikes when she is killed in an accident. Deep in grief, Jonathan hears from Raymond Price (Ian McNeice), who claims that he has intercepted messages from Anna via electronic voice phenomena. Jonathan eventually comes to believe Raymond's claims, but, as he is drawn further into investigating the phenomenon, a sinister supernatural presence invades his life.
Director
Geoffrey Sax
Producer
Paul Brooks, Shawn Williamson
Screenwriter
Niall Johnson
Distributor
Universal Pictures
Production Co
Brightlight Pictures Inc., Gold Circle Films, White Noise UK Ltd., Universal Pictures
Rating
PG-13 (Language|Disturbing Images|Violence)
Genre
Mystery & Thriller, Drama, Horror
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jan 7, 2005, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Apr 19, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$55.9M
Runtime
1h 38m
Sound Mix
Surround, Dolby SRD, DTS, SDDS
Aspect Ratio
Scope (2.35:1)
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