White Noise
06-26-04, 12:02 PM
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Has anybody heard anything about this movie? I just watched the trailer and it looks really intense and good.
Here's the imdb link, although there's very little info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0375210/
The basic premise has to do with electronic voice phenomena, how the dead speak to us through electronic devices. The movie deals with a man who is able to communicate with his wife who was murdered. It looks to be pretty intense and could be scary. Michael Keaton is the lead.
If anyone's interested about EVP check out this website: http://www.aaevp.com
Here's the imdb link, although there's very little info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0375210/
The basic premise has to do with electronic voice phenomena, how the dead speak to us through electronic devices. The movie deals with a man who is able to communicate with his wife who was murdered. It looks to be pretty intense and could be scary. Michael Keaton is the lead.
If anyone's interested about EVP check out this website: http://www.aaevp.com
06-26-04, 12:08 PM
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Where did you find the trailer?
06-26-04, 04:50 PM
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If this is based on Don DeLillo's book, then they've completely changed the plot of it around. Here's the book description:
EDIT: Nevermind, it's not based on DeLillo's book, just has the same name. The movie looks like it could possibly be good.
Jack Gladney teaches Hitler studies at a liberal arts college in Middle America where his colleagues include New York expatriates who want to immerse themselves in "American magic and dread." Jack and his fourth wife, Babette, bound by love, fear of death, and four ultramodern offspring, navigate the usual rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism. Then a lethal black cloud floats over their lives, an airborne "toxic event," an industrial accident. The menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible version of the "white noise" engulfing the Gladney family - radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, ultrasonic appliances, and TV murmurings - pulsing with life, yet filled with dread and danger
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06-27-04, 10:29 AM
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I took a survey at goZing.com, that's where I saw the trailer. If I can find it available online anywhere I'll post a link. It's one of the most chilling trailers I've seen in a while.
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I know the voices heard have been floating around the internet as I recall the "Get out of my house". anyone shed some light on that and where it's been floating around?
09-12-04, 10:26 PM
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Is that a problem? the ring was pretty cool. A thriller doesn't need to be full of gore to scare you. Hell, once you get buckets of blood it starts to become really silly.
09-12-04, 10:31 PM
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the ring was pretty cool.
A thriller doesn't need to be full of gore to scare you.
09-13-04, 12:03 AM
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the VO in that trailer, and the tag line, kills it completely for me.
Sad. Kind of an interesting concept.
Sad. Kind of an interesting concept.
09-13-04, 03:45 AM
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They played the trailer for this when I saw Resident Evil.
I must admit I was kinda freaked out especially since I've worked on shows where EVP "researchers" have been interviewed.
I must admit I was kinda freaked out especially since I've worked on shows where EVP "researchers" have been interviewed.
09-13-04, 03:52 AM
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Originally posted by RichC2
the VO in that trailer, and the tag line, kills it completely for me.
Sad. Kind of an interesting concept.
the VO in that trailer, and the tag line, kills it completely for me.
Sad. Kind of an interesting concept.
Wow. While I don't know how this film will be, and you have every right to your choice, I think blowing it off due to the trailer is kinda premature. Just like kick ass trailers don't guarantee a kick ass movie, "bad" trailers don't always mean the movie will suck.
Granted, your reaction says alot about how advertisers need to get it right the first time because the public rarely gives you a second chance to wow them.
09-13-04, 04:57 AM
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It would've been pretty cool if I didn't see the superior Ring(u) before it.
It would've been pretty cool if I didn't see the superior Ring(u) before it.
Originally posted by Matthew Chmiel
Exactly. But Americans haven't recently been able to make a good, non-bloody scary movie yet. But the Asians have.
Exactly. But Americans haven't recently been able to make a good, non-bloody scary movie yet. But the Asians have.
Besides, I've been seeing a slew of Japanese, Korean and Chinese horror films lately and they all (good and bad) feature some ghost girl in a white dress with long black hair in her face exposing only one eye. It gets really old even when they're doing it.
Regardless, this film looks pretty freaky and I'm interested to see it and I'm always up to go see Michael Keaton in a film (as long as he's not a snowman or a batman)... I don't think it'll be a ripoff of Ring at all - in theme, it seems moderately original and the closest asian film I can think of is Phone or maybe Into the Mirror (both korean), but neither are about this same thing. There's plenty of asian horror films recently that deal with ghosts and many with ouija boards and crap, but none that I can think of that this film could be ripping off.
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Originally posted by Jackskeleton
Is that a problem? the ring was pretty cool. A thriller doesn't need to be full of gore to scare you. Hell, once you get buckets of blood it starts to become really silly.
Is that a problem? the ring was pretty cool. A thriller doesn't need to be full of gore to scare you. Hell, once you get buckets of blood it starts to become really silly.
09-13-04, 11:34 PM
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Does anyone know if there is actual stories behind the voices? I seem to recall that "Get out of my house" line floating around the internet or something like that.
09-13-04, 11:51 PM
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Really? We haven't? What about The Others or Sixth Sense or What Lies Beneath or Blair Witch or Stir of Echoes or Session 9 or...? The Forgotten looks great. Bloody movies are a separate genre - slasher films and such. I don't find blood particularly scary. American studios can make good films. No need to count them out.
Some really good 70s supernatural films aside from the obvious choices include: Let's scare jessica to death, Burnt offerings, Warlock moon, The Changeling, Blood on satan's claw, Lemora, The Witch who came from the sea.
09-25-04, 01:11 AM
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what the hell? People bashing it already? It was barely a trailer (Rival clears his throat................................"hence.....like a teaser")
Anyway, all dumb bashing aside (man, take a break from posting for a while and you really appreciate things more........uh, wait did I just say that?) I'm looking forward to this one.
Anyway, all dumb bashing aside (man, take a break from posting for a while and you really appreciate things more........uh, wait did I just say that?) I'm looking forward to this one.
09-27-04, 03:56 AM
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[original]Bumping the ORIGINAL thread for further discussion[/original]
10-10-04, 09:59 PM
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Are those real recordings, or just fake recordings made to look real so that people get freaked out?
Either way I'm looking forward to this, The Grudge remake, and Saw. Hopefully it'll be a good year for horror movies.
Either way I'm looking forward to this, The Grudge remake, and Saw. Hopefully it'll be a good year for horror movies.
10-10-04, 10:19 PM
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Looks pretty cool, and the only thing that makes it reminiscent of The Ring are the close-ups of tapes.
Michael Keaton is looking old.
And Trigger, of all those films you listed as examples of good modern American horror without tons of gore, I only liked Session 9. Right now both Britain and Japan are making better horror movies than America.
I liked the way the trailer explained EVP, and the story of the movie was almost a footnote to that.
Michael Keaton is looking old.
And Trigger, of all those films you listed as examples of good modern American horror without tons of gore, I only liked Session 9. Right now both Britain and Japan are making better horror movies than America.
I liked the way the trailer explained EVP, and the story of the movie was almost a footnote to that.
10-11-04, 07:11 PM
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I liked the way the trailer explained EVP, and the story of the movie was almost a footnote to that.
I liked the way the trailer explained EVP, and the story of the movie was almost a footnote to that.
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The trailer, while making EVP sound convincing, didn't work do well for the actual movie footage. The Movie footage in contrast to the "evidence" looks hokey and Lifetime-movie-ish.