Michael Keaton

Chandra West

Deborah Kara Unger

Ian McNeice

Keegan Connor Tracy

Sarah Strange

Nicholas Elia

Mike Dopud

Marsha Regis

Brad Sihvon

Amber Rothwell

Mitchell Kosterman

Suzanne Ristic

L. Harvey Gold

Miranda Frigon

Aaron Douglas

Anthony Harrison

Bruce Dawson

Benita Ha

April Telek

Geoffrey Sax

Simon Brooks

Nick Arthurs

Niall Johnson

Chris Seager

Paul Brooks

Robert Little

Penny A. Chalmers

Maureen Webb

Gregory G. Venturi

Karen L. Matthews

Michael S. Bolton

Shelly Shaw

Scott Niemeyer

Stephen Hegyes

Norm Waitt

Shawn Williamson

Jonathan Shore

Claude Foisy

Hugh Johnson

Dave Conway

Linda Leduc

Dave Klassen

Lee Kerr

Mark Kenna

Kimberly Lozinski

Richard Coleman

George Barbour

Frank Haddad

Chris Helcermanas-Benge

Simon Allmark

Sarah Cloutier

Barry Kaiser

Natalie Allan

Rod Newby

Michele O'Flanagan

Owen Bleasdale

Susan Kearney

Lalit Goyal

Anne Jacobsen

Randy Gerston

Sharon Lark

Mary L. Mastro

Elaine Arsens

Michael Taschereau

Reg Advocaot

Gene McCormick

Richard Barrett

Donald James Davey

Jessica Clothier

Bernard O'Reilly

Iesza Jessica Jordan

Judi Varga

Dean Capstick

David R. Anderson

John Dekker

Tony Beck

Erika Espinosa

Deni King

Jamie Humphrey

Chris Doss

Dave Roman

Rick Jermakowicz

Jill Allanson

Miha Jaramaz

Mike Grimes

Simon Giles

Richard Dobbin

Adina Shore

Lisa Sweet

Mark Noda

Marty McInally

Graham Cristie

Tim Storvick

Rob Court

Pascal Verschooris

William Skinner

Kimberley Regent

Randy Lee

Greg Jackson

Stewart Henderson

Gianluca Buttari

Dave Dibdin

Luz Gabriela Rosas Rojas

Michele Woods

Lionel Hebert

Jesse Sannerud

Sarah Carefoot

Doris Deutschmann

Alan Homma

Melissa Lake

Ron Kozier

Don Leask

Shane Lennox

Ross Kulak

Andy Koessler

Glenn Bottomley

Abigail Barbier

Chris Andrews

Emanuela Daus

White Noise Collection

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White Noise

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White Noise fizzles out its noisy static by just being plain boring. Watching Keaton as he unconvincingly stares at televised white noise for an hour and a half, which is essentially nothing, perfectly surmises the experience of Sax' supposedly supernatural horror. However, the biggest crime that the studio committed was releasing the feature on the first weekend of the year. Now, it's common knowledge that the initial start to the cinematic year typically begins with a disposable horror. Well, White Noise is to blame. Signalling untapped box office potential, despite the overt opinions of critics. And, as to be expected, matches the quality of a broken tape. A successful architect loses his wife to a drowning accident, to which he then encounters a psychic introducing him to the supernatural phenomenon of EVP.

Electronic Voice Phenomena. Y'know, recording background noise in a room, playing back the tape and flabbergasted when the ghost of ‪Michael Jackson‬ hauntingly sings "Thriller". Except in White Noise the tool that's used is, well, white noise. The annoyingly hypnotising static from televisions when no channel is picked up from the current frequency. Keaton becomes entranced by the ominous voices and high definition faces he sees within the six televisions he owns in his modern apartment. Who is making contact? Is it his wife? Malevolent entities trapped in the cubic prison that is a television? Pretty sure writer Johnson didn't even know himself.

The film is a mess. It's muddled, confused and abhorrently remains stagnant throughout. This architect, a father, essentially abandons his son when fixated on saving souls warned by his deceased wife that conveniently match the images in the white noise as soon as he arrives to any given scenario, despite "Willow Avenue" being mentioned days before. So think of it as 'Final Destination' meets 'Pulse' (original, obviously...). Except it's neither as entertaining as the former nor as horrifying as the latter.

Keaton looked bored as hell and overacted in times of emotional distress, although reassured the narrative with control. The jump scares were obnoxiously tame, yet admittedly one of the piercing noises made me twitch my body. The ending is...well, let's just not talk about it. It's terrible, with CGI ghost things swooping in on Batman, and answers no lingering questions that the mystery of EVP conjured up. Heck, the feature begins and concludes with onscreen text about "existing" occurrences. "1 in 12 cases are dangerous". Yeah. Ok. You know what is dangerous? Ruining Keaton's career. We had to wait a decade later for his rejuvenation!

White Noise admittedly has a decent enough premise, yet Sax' lack of direction accompanied by shoddy writing and lacklustre performances resulted in one film that had the similarities to white noise. Nothingness.

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