The Messenger

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The Messenger

2015

1h 41m

Horror

Drama

Mystery & Thriller

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When a journalist is being brutally murdered, a man who is haunted by ghostly apparitions must help grant the man his dying wish.

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Kim Newman

Empire Magazine

A downbeat, rainy, British spin on The Sixth Sense, this has good performances but an uncertain tone.

Rated: 2/5

Sep 23, 2015

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Charlotte Keeys

Little White Lies

Do we really need a "gritty" British version of The Sixth Sense?

Rated: 1/5

Sep 17, 2015

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Steve Rose

Guardian

Sheehan's crazed temperament and beatific face sustain the ambiguity when little else does.

Rated: 2/5

Sep 17, 2015

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Naila Scargill

Exquisite Terror

A missed opportunity for exploration of the relationship between mental illness and the supernatural.

Feb 28, 2019

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Jennifer Heaton

Alternative Lens

The plot is a meandering mess that drags painfully through the paper thin premise, and then ends just when it starts to get interesting.

Rated: 3/10

Nov 2, 2018

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Stephen Puddicombe

Total Film

Everything's held together by an authoritative performance from Sheehan, who does fine work keeping open the question of whether the ghosts are really there or just figments of his troubled imagination.

Rated: 3/5

Oct 31, 2016

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Fairly decent but still tends dull.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/04/23

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This hackneyed tiresome tale of a young man in want of a good bath and a meal running from what is here portrayed as a haunting burden of mediumship that he neither wants nor has taken time to harness. Is largely misrepresentative,inaccurate,uninformative,misleading,unoriginal,predictable and dull...You may ask me How I would know ? The answer is...Because I am a medium and live a very happy fulfilling life.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/07/23

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Audience Member

quite hecktic and not that interesting

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

01/13/23

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Synopsis

When a journalist is being brutally murdered, a man who is haunted by ghostly apparitions must help grant the man his dying wish.

Director: David Blair
Producer: Richard Hart, Michael Knowles, Terry Stone, Richard Turner
Screenwriter: Andrew Kirk
Genre: Horror, Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: British English
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 7, 2018
Runtime: 1h 41m

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