The Messengers

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The Messengers

PG-13

Released Feb 2, 2007

1h 25m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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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.

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Critics Consensus

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

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Nick Schager

Lessons of Darkness

The only message worth relaying about The Messengers is: Avoid.

Rated: C-

Feb 26, 2008

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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

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

It's pretty ordinary genre stuff.

Rated: 2/5

Apr 7, 2007

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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

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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

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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

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N P

"The Messengers" has an interesting plot, nice horror effects, good direction and cinematography. Although, it definitely had more of a suspenseful edge in the first half. Kristen Stewart 100% delivered in this film for the audience to buy in to the whole movie's premise - juggling both being utterly terrified, curious and dependable despite no one, not even her family believing her.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

12/09/24

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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
Producer: Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert, William Sherak, Jason Shuman
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
Runtime: 1h 25m
Sound Mix: Dolby SRD, DTS, SDDS
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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