White Noise
 

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

Where did you find the trailer?

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.

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.

Just saw the trailer to this movie and it looks extremely freaky.

http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplayli...tw=640&qth=400

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?

shit - that's one freaky trailer.

the trailer isn't bad. But i'm betting it's another pg13 thriller that will feel awfully similiar to the ring.

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.

It would've been pretty cool if I didn't see the superior Ring(u) before it.

Exactly. But Americans haven't recently been able to make a good, non-bloody scary movie yet. But the Asians have. ;)

I welcome the asian horror. I get scared from it far more then I ever did with american horror.

the VO in that trailer, and the tag line, kills it completely for me.

Sad. Kind of an interesting concept.

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. :eek:

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.

I saw Ring and Ring 2 as well as Ring Virus (the Korean one) and several other knock-offs before seeing the US version and I still thought they did a great job americanizing the film. I found it to be effective even though I knew what was going to happen. I had problems with it - mainly the backstory changes and the way they overexplained to demystify the supernatural-ness of it - but it was basically good.


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.

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.

For me it is. I generally don't like these new supernatural themed thrillers like the ring or their asian counterparts. I've seen a few already, things like ringu, juon the grudge, shikoku, tomie, the eye and a few others. White Noise looks like more of the same. Of course i'll need to see more of that same to actually commit to an opinion of the actual film. I will agree that buckets of blood can make a movie really silly and almost always overshadow any real tension or terror. My general preference are horror films made back in the days of the 1970s. Weird films made on low budgets usually by nobodys not bounded by studios to recycle the same junk over and over. 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. Most of these are available on dvd and worth a look.

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.

All of those sucked, now compare them to Sunday Morning's list of films:
Yeah, recent mainstream American horror simply blows. I'll take American horror films from any other decade or horror films from any other country that is not the United States.

just saw the trailer. look very very good.

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.

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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.

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.

I think thats was the trailer really effective for me.....the official sounding voice guy alone talking about EVP creeped me out. This movie may or may not be good...but this well crafted trailer will get me in the seat.

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.