#20 - White Noise (2005)
(dir. Geoffrey Sax)
Michael Keaton stars as a widower who becomes obsessed with contacting his wife's spirit through EVP, a phenomenon where the spirits of the dead are said to show up on audio and video recordings. It's a staple of haunted house movies; when paranormal investigators are called in, the first thing they always do is set up cameras and microphones wherever there might be some ghostly activity. This movie tells us that spirits can only influence the most sensitive of instruments, and that they will only show up when the recording is played back.
This is not a very good movie, and it isn't interesting enough for me to spend much time writing about it. It is full of plot holes, and ignores its own rules whenever they are inconvenient to the bad and overcomplicated plot. Its biggest flaw is that it just isn't scary or tense at all. Thoroughly mediocre.
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