Bonus Review #2

Shawn again. Since a lot of official movies haven't been seen (working on it don't you worry) here's another bonus review. This weekend is definitely going to be catch up time, with Cloverfield being seen on Friday night and then hopefully 27 Dresses the next day. In the meantime, here is another review. If you've been paying close attention then this shouldn't be a surprise. But since I'm sure nobody has been.....SURPRISE!

2008 Movie #3 - White Noise: The Light

That's right. Mentioned in my Boogeyman review was this one. Another straight to DVD sequel that I'm sure not a single person was asking for. I'll admit that I didn't hate the first White Noise. I didn't like it but I pretty much support anything that Michael Keaton does so that right there gives me a soft spot for it. Since the first one isn't a classic, I didn't expect much from this one. However, as with Boogeyman 2, this one is better than the first one. Although, unlike Boogeyman, it's not better as in one piece of shit is slightly better than another piece of shit, but White Noise: The Light is in fact, a good movie. It even borders on being a very good movie.

The plot has literally nothing to do with the first movie which is good because it always feels very forced when these DTD movies try to connect back to the originals. This one follows Nathan Fillion (very underrated actor) as a man who is dining with his wife and child (on his anniversary no less) when a man walks in, shoots the wife and child, and then himself. Unable to go on without them, Fillion tries to kill himself. He sees a white light with his wife and child at the end (I'll admit this whole sequence is actually really really stupid) but OH, what do you know the doctors bring him back from death. It's then he starts to see and hear weird shit.

That's about all I knew going into it so I'm going to stop right there. The fun of the movie is not knowing what the fuck is going to happen next. The story actually is pretty interested and pays everything off nicely in the end.

The acting is pretty good across the board. As stated earlier I feel Fillion is a very underrated actor (if you haven't seen Firefly, Serenity and Slither, I fucking hate you) who does a very good job in the role here. Also doing well is...I forget the actor's name but she plays Starbuck on Battlestar Galactica. She's so adorable in this movie it sometimes hurts to watch.

The movie is more of a thriller than a straight up horror movie but it does have a few of those "OH MY GOD A SUDDEN LOUD NOISE!" scares that work better than many actual horror movies. Most of them are actual ghosts or something appearing, not like in say One Missed Call where the jump scare comes from one of the other characters walking in from off screen. What the fuck is up with those scares anyway? In real life you would have seen that person coming a long time beforehand. Just because they're offscreen doesn't mean the character shouldn't be able to see them. Sure sometimes they appear behind the person but oftentimes they just walk casually in beside them and it still scares the shit out of them. Anyway, rant over.

So in conclusion, this movie is actually kind of worth checking out. It's a decent way to kill 90 minutes and trust me, you can do a hell of a lot worse.

***/5