88th Worst Movie: White Noise

"White Noise" Starring Michael Keaton, Chandra West, and Deborah Kara Unger
Directed by Geoffrey Sax

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By Michele Dillon

So I actually went into this movie knowing nothing about it. I can't say I was pleasantly surprised, nor can I say that it was the "Worst" movie I've ever seen. The premise of this movie is that Michael Keaton's wife goes missing. A man approaches him and advises him that he has been recieving messages from her through EVP, which is Electronic Voice Phenomena. This is where you can hear voices of the dead in the white noise of radio and see faces from white noise on the TV. Not but one day later, his wife is found dead. Keaton then becomes obsessed with trying to hear his wife through EVP himself because he is convinced she is trying to communicate an important message to him. He soon realizes that you don't only hear the good people that died, you can also hear the bad. From then on, he tries to uncover the mystery of whether the bad people are really just voices or if they are having an affect on the real word.This is another case of the idea being really good but the movie not taking it as far as it can go. First off, they don't really go into great detail on explanations of why certain things occur so you are left trying to fill in the gaps yourself with your amazing knowledge of the subject of EVP. Which, unless I am the only one who first heard of EVP in this movie, then this can leave you very confused. Secondly, it is quite boring having to watch Keaton sit in front of a TV staring at the white noise OR sit in his car listening to white noise; watching...waiting...listening...waiting. They wasted too much time having the white noise be completely nothing. I think they were trying to create suspense so it would make us jump out of our seat once something actually happened...good thought, but the viewers might fall asleep first.Other than those two things, the rest of the movie was OK. I was kind of intrigued to see where they were taking it but overall I would give it a D+.