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      The Messengers

      PG-13 Released Feb 2, 2007 1 hr. 25 min. Horror Mystery & Thriller List
      11% 83 Reviews Tomatometer 44% 250,000+ Ratings Audience Score When the Solomons trade in the craziness of big-city life for the quiet of a North Dakota farm, little do they expect the nightmare that follows. Soon after arriving, teenage Jess (Kristen Stewart) and her younger brother see terrifying apparitions and endure attacks from a supernatural source. Jess must warn her disbelieving family before it is too late to save them. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered Oct 10 Rent Now

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      The Messengers is an atmospheric but derivative rip-off of countless other horror movies.

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      Justin T The visual effects and style are very nice to look at, the vast majority of shots are nice, the sound design is great. Overall very solid technical aspects. The story though is not every original, it's a pretty standard ghost story. It's not very creative. There are some good scares and a very hot Kristen Stewart but ultimately lacking any special or any true horror. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 05/11/23 Full Review little m How can they stay at home after all what has done ? nothing in the end explain anything ! Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member es una buena pelicula digna del terror y suspenso para verla en una noche como halloween, una historia muy original. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review cameron c Visuals are pretty good. The story was a little lacking and relied too much on jump scares. All in all, it was trying to be something like The Shining. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Basically rips off elements from several other far superior horror films, an extremely skinny 16 year old Kristen Stewart, Dylan McDermott, Penelope Ann Miller and an adorable toddler move to a sunflower farm in North Dakota that has ghosts, a homicidal maniac and a bunch of evil crows. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/15/23 Full Review Audience Member Bad watch, probably won't watch again, and can't recommend. I actually like Kristen Stewart, and I think she performed decently in this, but she worked her ass off carrying the movie. John Corbett was the only other person pulling their weight in this movie. The story itself was okay, but it does have a lot of problems. My biggest was just their defiance of reality. The "in you face" thing is that the farm is plague with "crows" that are clearly ravens. This is done because you can train ravens much easier, but they're GIANT birds by average comparison of what size birds most people see. And then they do stupid things like leave feed out far enough away from where you would take it (those are not light bags), and when birds come, he shoos them farther into the car as the trunk is the only part open. They are planting sunflower seeds, which just means lots of things trying to eat it, but the timeline is all over the place. They go to plant seeds, and there are tiny plants in the background. There is an incident early on, then what seems like a week passes, but then it's almost end of harvest. And then there is still a giant bag of seeds to plant, and it isn't part of the harvest because it's by itself and I don't think they start harvesting during the movie. There is also the mold which she doesn't seem to know how to treat or why it would come back...just silly. But its details like these that show how poorly written the script is, especially the dialogue. The effects are actually pretty interesting, they did a good job on the birds, the wall, and the "flowing ground" was really interesting, but it's not enough to have a cool effect or two. You might as well, just have lots of odd explosions then. Overall, just not worth the watch, unless you want to see a movie where Kristen Stewart is objectively the best actor. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Nick Schager Lessons of Darkness The only message worth relaying about The Messengers is: Avoid. Rated: C- Feb 26, 2008 Full Review Ty Burr Dallas Morning News The MessengersI/i> is textbook, and the course it's teaching is HSL: Horror as a Second Language. Rated: C- May 28, 2007 Full Review Peter Bradshaw Guardian It's pretty ordinary genre stuff. Rated: 2/5 Apr 7, 2007 Full Review Steve Newton Georgia Straight Thai twin-brother directors Oxide and Danny Pang did primo horror work on 2002's Hong Kong cornea-transplant flick The Eye, but on their first American film their atmospheric efforts are usurped by a brain-dead script that seems written by a 12-year-old. Rated: 1/5 Jul 6, 2010 Full Review Steve Biodrowski ESplatter There are flashes of good imagery in The Messengers, but [they] work better in the trailer, unencumbered by the dreary plot. Jul 15, 2008 Full Review Brian Holcomb CinemaBlend Patchwork filmmaking designed by a corporate mentality devoted only to the defense of the lowest common denominator. The viewer is assumed to be stupid and easily duped. Rated: 2/5 May 5, 2008 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Synopsis When the Solomons trade in the craziness of big-city life for the quiet of a North Dakota farm, little do they expect the nightmare that follows. Soon after arriving, teenage Jess (Kristen Stewart) and her younger brother see terrifying apparitions and endure attacks from a supernatural source. Jess must warn her disbelieving family before it is too late to save them.
      Director
      Danny Pang, Oxide Chun Pang
      Executive Producer
      Joseph Drake, Nathan Kahane
      Screenwriter
      Mark Wheaton
      Distributor
      Sony Pictures Entertainment
      Production Co
      Ghost House Pictures, Mandate Pictures, Columbia Pictures
      Rating
      PG-13 (Mature Thematic Material|Disturbing Violence|Terror)
      Genre
      Horror, Mystery & Thriller
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Feb 2, 2007, Wide
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Mar 9, 2014
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $35.4M
      Sound Mix
      Dolby SRD, DTS, SDDS
      Aspect Ratio
      Flat (1.85:1)
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