White Noise

3.6 - This has an intriguing core concept around EVP but nothing about the way the story unfolds makes sense.

Caught between a sad & longing ghost love story & what seems to want to be a haunting-style horror, it ends up way more convoluted than necessary. Between switching from communication after death, to premonition, to possession, to serial killer under possession(?), there’s just too many stories at play. Motivations don’t always make sense. Specific people’s fates are never explained. And not a single CGI element holds up.

Credit where due though, Michael Keaton makes it watchable & a lot of the reason January horror is a thing can be traced back to this movie’s box office success, so that’s something to note.

Need to find the 2007 sequel which supposedly is better in pretty much every way.

Mostly just okay I can’t bring myself to lower it to a meh rating but it doesn’t deserve much better

Simultaneously love & hate this movie. There are very few movies that give me the Willie's. This is absolutely one of them. The closest contender is Signs for this feeling. Watched it first years ago, still feel uncomfortable looking at static in tv or listening to white noise.

Rating: 3/5