Tuesday, July 17, 2007 'White Noise: The Light' to scare moviegoers on July 18
WHAT would you do if you lose your family and the will to live, only to return from the brink of death with the ability to "see" who is about to die?
From Patrick Lussier, the director of Wes Craven's Dracula trilogy and the producer of Academy Award nominees "Shadow of The Vampire" and "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," comes "White Noise: The Light" - the sequel to the supernatural thriller and box office hit "White Noise."
Abe Dale is a man faced with a terrifying choice. After his family is brutally murdered as well as surviving his own near death experience, he undergoes a transformation that allows him to "see" those among the living who are about to die. Brought back from the brink of the other side, Abe's near-death experience changes him. As he attempts to adjust to normal living, he begins to believe he has the ability to tell when people are going to die.
On several occasions, he sees people emanating a brilliant white light and, soon after, he learns that they have died. He realizes that if he can tell when someone is about to die, he has an opportunity to try and save them. As Abe saves more people from death, he learns there is an ultimate price to be paid for interfering with fate and he is faced with a devastating dilemma. How far will Abe go to avert another senseless slaughter and restore the natural order of life and death?
The original "White Noise", starring Michael Keaton, broadened popular awareness of electronic voice phenomenon (EVP), the method of tracking and recording voices of those who have died via transmissions from tape recorders and other everyday electronic devices. But finding the next script idea was complicated. The producers didn't want to make another EVP story. After exploring a number of ideas for scripts, the concept for the sequel arrived in the guise of an original script by Matt Venne, which he submitted as a spec screenplay originally entitled Second Sight.
"It was terrific," says executive producer Paul Brooks. "It took the notion that EVP opens the doors to the other world and that the next stage is the near-death experience/white light which so many people have experienced or heard about. It felt like a very natural bridge from the first."
While Lussier has no personal experiences with ghosts or EVP, he believes it's plausible. "I think people are such furious balls of energy that they don't just vanish. So, when they're gone, where does it go? The energy has to go somewhere."
Presently, the concept of white light in near-death experience is more commonly known, thanks in part to the work of the late Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, the world's foremost expert on the subjects of death, dying and the afterlife, who did extensive research and penned highly-regarded volumes on the subject of near-death experiences.
Moreover, The National American Statistics Institute accounts that on average, there are 774 Near Death Experiences (NDEs) per day in the United States, during which a person is pronounced dead and encounters a blinding white light before being resuscitated.
"'White Noise: The Light' is a classic, old-school horror film without graphic violence," says Brooks. "But, hopefully, it is going to scare the pants off the audience."
This supernatural thriller stars Nathan Fillion (Serenity, Slither, Firefly), Katee Sackhoff (Battlestar Galactica), Craig Fairbrass (The Long Weekend),
Kendall Cross (Wicker Man, Elektra, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, The Butterfly Effect).
Find out why one shouldn't cross the fine line between life and death as "White Noise: The Light" opens at your favorite theaters beginning July 18. A Viva International Pictures release. See to believe. (Press release)
