The Messengers (2007)

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Studio: Screen Gems
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: Feb 2, 2007
Running Time: 84 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
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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. When those specters become violent, Jess' sanity is questioned--a double jeopardy for the tormented teen. Her troublesome past comes face to face with the past of those who once lived in the house, a perilous confrontation that leaves her believability in question with those she desperately tries to warn before it is too late.
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Directors Danny and Oxide Pang, veterans of such popular Asian scarefests as The Eye and Ab-normal Beauty, know their way around a scare, and The Messengers has some decent jolts along the way. Ultimately, however, the peskiest of all problems – the plot – tends to get in the way. As the story pieces fall into place, the film itself tends to fall apart. In addition, this is yet another horror film that has been given a box-office-friendlier PG-13 rating (in the February issue of Fangoria,… Continued

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Roy Solomon
Denise Solomon
John Burwell
Colby Price
Michael Rollins
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