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  • 2007
  • PG-13
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2007
  • PG-13
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 1 h 30 m

Summary The Solomon family has left the fast paced life of Chicago for the secluded world of a North Dakota farm. Amidst the tranquil sway of the farm's field of sunflowers, Jess, 16, soon realizes how terrifying seclusion can be when she and her brother Ben, 3, begin seeing ominous apparitions invisible to everyone else. (Sony)

Directed By: Danny Pang, Oxide Chun Pang

Written By: Mark Wheaton, Todd Farmer

  • 2007
  • PG-13
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2007
  • PG-13
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 1 h 30 m

The Messengers

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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User Score Mixed or Average Based on 41 User Ratings
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Summary The Solomon family has left the fast paced life of Chicago for the secluded world of a North Dakota farm. Amidst the tranquil sway of the farm's field of sunflowers, Jess, 16, soon realizes how terrifying seclusion can be when she and her brother Ben, 3, begin seeing ominous apparitions invisible to everyone else. (Sony)

Directed By: Danny Pang, Oxide Chun Pang

Written By: Mark Wheaton, Todd Farmer

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50
There are a few decent jolts in The Messengers, but every one of them is accompanied by a cheap freak-out on the soundtrack so you know to be decently jolted.
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Like too many horror pictures, The Messengers becomes more boringly prosaic as it goes along, and there's an 11th-hour plot twist so dumb and poorly articulated that it destroys the movie. That's a shame, because shot for shot, the Pangs might be the most terrifying filmmakers alive.
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46% Positive
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24% Negative
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JLau
Sep 25, 2020
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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HellHoleHorror
May 11, 2023
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.
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The trouble isn't just that this haunted-house story, written by Mark Wheaton and directed by Hong Kong filmmakers Danny and Oxide Pang, is both formulaic and derivative. It's that it's completely free of atmosphere, the very thing that their 2002 "The Eye" had in such creepy abundance.
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A predictable, by-the-numbers TV-movie-sized affair which will break your heart - especially since it also contains brief flashes of horror greatness.
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The Messengers is textbook, and the course it's teaching is HSL: Horror as a Second Language.
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Extremely boring.
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The story is so ridiculously obvious it's not even remotely enjoyable.
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CineAutoctono
Dec 25, 2015
Just defeat or contempt fair ?, just what I can say about the movie "The Messengers" was so creepy but very boring , because a damn house is a symbol of horror movies , and the field gives me much more.
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RyanLopez
Apr 19, 2011
This movie is **** stupid- I hated this **** It's screwed up. IT WAS STUPIDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!. You want a bad movie-see this one. It got on my top 5 of most stupid movies ever it ranks 5th
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Production Company Screen Gems, Ghost House Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Blue Star Pictures, Scarecrow Productions, Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA), Mandate Pictures
Release Date Feb 2, 2007
Duration 1 h 30 m
Rating PG-13
Genres
Tagline There is evidence to suggest that children are highly susceptible to paranormal phenomena. They see what adults cannot. They believe what adults deny. And they are trying to warn us.
Website http://www.lesmessagers-lefilm.com/
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Leo Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Directors Guild of Canada
• 1 Nomination
Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards
• 1 Nomination

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