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RATING |
| 7 |
DIRECTOR |
| Patrick Lussier |
CAST |
Nathan Fillion
Kate Sackhoff
Adrian Holmes
William MacDonald
Kendall Cross
Craig Fairbrass
Teryl Rothery
David Milchard
Tegan Moss |
YEAR |
| 2007 |
RUNTIME |
| 99 minutes |
DATE REVIEWED |
| 6
/ 11 / 07 |
SHOPPING |
| N/A |
| REVIEWER: FrighT MasteR |
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RATED BY:
37 FAN(S) |
CURRENT RATING:
6.95 SKULL(S)
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White Noise: The Light
Shortly after the first film a sequel was discussed and months later the studio finally decided to go ahead with it. Many would ask 'why', since the first did pretty decent at the box office, but didn't seem to merit a sequel. Regardless, it was happening and it would reportedly have no connection with the first movie. The premise would also go through an overhaul, instead of just focusing on the signals the dead would send to us via electronic devices, our lead (Serenity's Nathan Fillion) would have a near-death experience and awaken as a "receiver" whose able to see the dead without actually having to go through any sort of electrical devices. Not only that, but he's able to see a light emanate from certain people, meaning they will soon die by unknown means. This leads our hero to begin saving lives and essentially playing God for a day. Unbeknownst to him, a few days after a person's life is saved they will seemingly become possessed and turn murderous and kill as many people as possible. Now he has to find a way to stop these people before it's too late, and to make matters worse he has become personally involved with one of the victims.
I personally liked the first movie, despite it being rather slow, it kept my interest. Though, the cheesy half-assed ending definitely hurt it. While the US still has no solid release date for the film, it's already available on DVD in the UK after it opened to cinemas in early January. I had mixed feelings when I heard about this sequel, but I watched it with an open mind, and boy was I impressed. The story was much more interesting than the first film, and things flowed at a nice moderate pace -- we never have too much dialogue or too many pointless ghost encounters. Although the film didn't really have any scary scenes, it did offer a decent amount of ghosts that I'm sure would give some viewers the chills. This is probably one of the better efforts from director Patrick Lussier, who served as editor in the beginning of his career on various horror flicks, from Scream to Halloween: H20. His directorial debut came with the straight-to-video flick The Prophecy 3: The Ascent, and went on to tackle the Dracula 2000 trilogy.
OVERALL
The film proves that not all sequels suck, but sometimes even become better than the first films and grow to be solid additions to the genre. Not scary, but delivers enough story and ghosts to keep your interest through the entire viewing. Definitely worth a check.
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Keaton was in it. This next one should be ok, but i think they should have stopped with the first one.