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InsidePulse Review – White Noise
Directed by Geoffrey Sax. MPAA rating: PG-13 (for violence, disturbing images and language.).
Starring:
Michael Keaton …. Jonathan Rivers
Chandra West …. Anna Rivers
Deborah Kara Unger …. Sarah Tate
Ian McNeice …. Raymond Price
White Noise is a film that horror fans are going to desperately want to latch onto and hope against hope that they will be able to praise it when all is said and done so they can exclaim to one and all that finally, the horror genre has something to write home about. When the dust settles off of this first film to get the wide release treatment in the new year, however, horror fans might not be too thrilled. The major critics definitely aren’t. And the Guru is still trying to figure his thoughts out, even as he writes this review.
The film is about Jonathan Rivers (Michael Keaton) an architect who, with his best selling novelist new wife Anna (Chandra West) is incredibly content in life. All is well until one day Anna doesn’t come home. Jonathan maintains hope as the weeks pass, and one day is confronted by Raymond Price (Ian McNeice) who claims that Anna has spoken with him. Jonathan dismisses him and then the police find Anna a short time later. His life falling apart around him, Rivers moves into a new home when strange things begin to happen. He contacts Price, and, sure enough, Price has evidence that Anna is trying to communicate from beyond the grave.
Entitled Electronic Voice Phenomena, or EVP, those who practice and follow the study believe that the dead try to contact the living through the static on radio and television. Rivers quickly becomes obsessed with EVP and hearing from Anna, and actually sets up an entire room in his apartment with equipment to monitor the signals. Things start to take an unusual turn, however, and Riv
