PARANORMAL: WHITE NOISE is another cheap digital horror film with a gloomy greyed-out look which seems to be all the rage these days. It looks boring and it is boring, going through all the old humdrum cliches without ever once engaging the senses or the viewer's interest. Rose McGowan plays a ghost hunter who winds up at a haunted subway station to investigate some spirits and the usual happens. It's all dark and predictable, lifting slightly when old-timer Christopher Lloyd appears for a cameo but soon dropping back into the doldrums again. McGowan tries hard but she's wasting her time with this mindless script and enterprise.

Kelly Johansen (Rose McGowen) is a ghost debunker. She detects low level sounds which cause vibrations and lead to hallucinations. She is drawn to an abandoned subway in Toronto to investigate the ghost of a woman who committed suicide. Once she gets there the plot thickens as new information is suddenly thrown at us all in the effort to ruin a simple ghost story.

This falls in line with the modern trend of having the debunker, i.e. person with no faith, change their mind. "1408" was the classic of this style. It maintained a simple plot. I liked the film, and then.. Hey Jenna Mattison, sometimes less is more.

Apparently in Canada, there is no such thing as trespassing. Rose McGowan kept falling asleep during the film.

Guide: no swearing, sex, or nudity

Loved the idea for 'The Sound', which for recent modest to low budget film viewings was one that was really quite creative. Executed right, 'The Sound' had potential to be quite decent. The cover/poster/advertising was attention grabbing and does make one want to see the film. Christopher Lloyd too is always watchable, despite being in a lot of bad projects in recent years.

It is unfortunate that 'The Sound' was yet another great potential waste, which is both frustrating and annoying. It doesn't come anywhere near close to being as attention grabbing as the cover/poster/advertising, makes a creative concept dull and ordinary and Lloyd is much better than this. Really wanted to like 'The Sound', but couldn't do it with such underwhelming execution of almost every component. Not all of them, but all but a few.

Rose McGowan is competent and Lloyd gives his limited character and screen time a lot of gusto.

First third of 'The Sound' is intriguing and creepy and some of the photography is atmospheric and slick enough.

The rest of the acting is not worth mentioning, Michael Eklund in particular spends the whole time looking like he was recovering from a hangover. The characters are sketchy at best and there is just nothing interesting or investable about them. Photography aside, 'The Sound' looks drab and like it was made in haste.

Dialogue is very stilted and muddled, the direction is pedestrian and after a promising start, the intrigue and suspense goes and the story for the rest of the film is a mess of incoherence, with too many things being vague, silliness and dreary pacing, complete with a rushed and petered out ending.

In summary, pretty weak. 3/10 Bethany Cox