A Rarity
White Noise was a curate’s egg of a movie. One step above the increasingly tired two-step of poor Asian horror remakes and slasher movies that have choked horror for the last few years it nonetheless still, somehow, managed to waste a good cast, a good premise and an intriguing central phenomenon. In contrast, White Noise: The Light is smart, well written, acted and directed and contains that rarest of all things in modern horror movies; a plot with a beginning, a middle and an end…
…White Noise 2 is automatically several points ahead of its predecessor with the two leads. Fillion is a pathologically likable leading man and as Abe he does a decent job of running the gamut from suicidal depression to manic energy. The middle section of the film is particularly impressive with Abe running himself ragged trying to save people in increasingly ludicrous situations. Always polite, always likeable and always just on the edge of losing it he’s a quintessential everyman actor and more than capable of carrying the emotional weight of the plot on his shoulders, particularly in the final half hour…
…To go into specifics would spoil the fun, but White Noise: The Light is both very different from the original and from 90 percent of the horror movies on the market today. The script explores the central concept fully, the characters are well rounded and the final half hour is bleaker than anything else you’ll see this year. A genuinely pleasant surprise and one any horror fan should treat themselves to.
- Full review [contains spoilers]
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