The Messengers
A family moves into a run-down sunflower farm. As the farm begins to revive after years of disrepair, the family begins to notice uncomfortable and alarming changes in their father's behavior.
13 January 1938, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
28 July 1985, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada
13 January 1964, Los Angeles, California, USA
29 October 1970, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
26 October 1961, Waterbury, Connecticut, USA
July 06, 2010
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.
May 05, 2008
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.
March 03, 2007
No one says, "Gimme the bat, Wendy," or, "Here's Johnny!" But they come close.
January 16, 2008
Um filme falho (especialmente com relação ao seu roteiro), mas que oferece belos exemplos do dom que os cineastas têm para criar planos e cenas perturbadores.
February 07, 2007
The Asian-horror-movie moment feels long since passed, both here and abroad. Let our zombies walk or even sprint again! Give our creepy kids back their pupils!
April 05, 2007
Many of the images feel over-familiar, and the shocks a mite too forced.
February 07, 2007
Sadly, the movie just doesn't deliver chills.
February 10, 2007
The well-amplified scares are so perfunctory as to be laughable. 'What's up with the crows?' bitches Kristen Stewart, clearly not up on her Hitchcock or any Asian thriller of the past ten years.
July 15, 2008
There are flashes of good imagery in The Messengers, but [they] work better in the trailer, unencumbered by the dreary plot.
January 04, 2008
A film so filled with clichés of the genre and plot points so dumb that even a novice would end up laughing.
May 28, 2007
The MessengersI/i> is textbook, and the course it's teaching is HSL: Horror as a Second Language.
February 26, 2008
The only message worth relaying about The Messengers is: Avoid.
