Ep. 142: Geoffrey Sax’s “White Noise” (2005)

Static can be terrifying, but only if the movie knows what to do with it. We’re Chad, Mike, and Sam, and we put Jeffrey Sachs’s White Noise (2005) under the microscope after a listener recommendation and that brutal 7% Rotten Tomatoes score. The premise is pure late-night dread: electronic voice phenomena (EVP), ghostly images hidden in TV snow, and a grieving husband (Michael Keaton) who can’t stop chasing one more message from beyond the grave. We talk through why the idea of EVP horror is...