Parents Guide for
White Noise (2005) More at IMDbPro »

A man admires his wife, who's wearing a lace slip; he holds her around the waist, kisses her neck and caresses her. A husband and wife hug and kiss. A man watches a home video of his wife, the camera zooms in on her clothed buttock and he makes a complimentary remark. A woman's robe hangs open revealing cleavage and part of her lace bra. A woman wears a low-cut top that reveals cleavage and a bit of bare abdomen.

In several scenes we see three wispy blurs of black mist in the shape of human silhouettes. A man lies dead on the ground with blood pooled around his head, and his leg, below the knee, is twisted back. A man is shot three times in the back, he falls to the floor dead and we see bloody bullet holes on his chest. A wispy blur of black mist in the shape of a human silhouette attacks a man, thrashing him about, and we see the man being flipped and tossed and twisted and hear him screaming in agony. We see a woman in a hospital bed thrashing frantically. A man wakes up when he hears a noise, turns on the faucet in the bathroom, we see fleeting black misty figures moving behind him, he walks back into the bedroom and sees a woman standing on the balcony; she falls back crashing onto a glass awning below (we see it cracked), and we see her bruised and bandaged in the hospital later. A man gets out of his car on a very dark, isolated road, two street lights in the distance pop, power lines spark and flare, and he sees that a car has run into a pole and is on its side; the man approaches the car, a woman with a very bloody face pleads with him to save her baby, and then she dies; he reaches into the car and retrieves the infant just as a large transformer crashes down where the baby had been. A woman sits near a cemetery, we see wisps of black mist moving behind her, she appears frightened, looks quickly to one side and the screen goes black (it is implied that she has been killed). A man walks into a darkened, abandoned mill, he hears whimpering, walks toward a flickering light, pulls aside a plastic sheet, and finds a desk where someone has been (there are plates of rotten food with flies on them); he also finds a table with implements of torture on it, and a bowl with bloody water in it, and as he walks further and he finds a woman strapped into a chair and a man standing near her (it is implied that the man has been torturing her and plans to kill her). A man sees obscured images on a TV screen, hears a voice, he leans into the screen to rest his head against it, there is a loud thud from the inside of the television set causing him to recoil and we hear a frightened woman's voice briefly. A man walks into a darkened house, discovers that the house has been ransacked and finds a man lying dead on the floor (it looks like he has recording tape wrapped around his neck and he has an expression of terror). We see a woman falling against rocks, knocking her head and hearing a crack when her arm hits a rock, and we are told that her arm was broken. A woman is frightened when she sees her face on a television screen. A visually impaired woman who appears to be a supernatural medium of some sort sees a brief image of an open mouth, hears a scream, she flinches, appears very frightened and tells a man that he is in danger. We hear the sound of a woman whimpering coming from a TV set in a few scenes, and we hear a woman's voice saying, "it hurts." A man sees and hears reports on television about the death of his wife. A man sees and hears reports on television about the disappearance of his wife, and a man is given details about his wife's death (presumably by the police). A man yells at a man and tells him to stay away. A man enters his house and discovers that it has been ransacked. A man yells and throws something against glass causing it to shatter. A man driving a car swerves nearly hitting oncoming traffic. Two men are stuck briefly in an elevator that stops and goes dark. A man is startled when a radio begins to blare the sound of static unexpectedly, and a man is startled when his phone rings loudly. We hear angry voices yelling threats and audio speakers throb from the high volume.

1 F-word, 3 scatological terms, 10 mild obscenities, 3 religious exclamations, some name-calling (written in a journal).

A scene where a sufferring woman's face pops up on the television is a 'shock' moment and is very frightening.