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Released Year: 2007
Runtime: 90 minutes
Directors: Danny Pang, Oxide Pang Chun
Casts: Kristen Stewart, Jodelle Ferland, Brent Briscoe, Dustin Milligan, Penelope Ann Miller, Tatiana Maslany, Michael Daingerfield, John Corbett, William B. Davis, Dylan McDermott, Evan Turner, Theodore Turner, Anna Hagan, Shirley McQueen, Blaine Hart, Graham Bell, Peter Scoular, Kaitlyn McMillan
IMDB: The Messengers (2007)
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(3 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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TV Guide Magazine -
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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The A.V. Club -
The Messengers, dutifully cobbles together a pastiche of successful horror films past--"The Grudge," "The Sixth Sense," "The Birds," "The Amityville Horror," and "The Shining"--without asserting a single original idea of its own.
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The New York Times -
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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Variety -
Though the Pangs prove culturally adaptive on a visual level, they seem completely clueless as to the tonal modalities of Mark Wheaton's admittedly undercooked, all-American script.
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Los Angeles Times -
The Messengers is at once ruthlessly efficient and shamelessly distended.
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The Messengers (2007)
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.
The Messengers (2007)
(3 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...
Information
Released Year: 2007
Runtime: 90 minutes
Directors: Danny Pang, Oxide Pang Chun
Casts: Kristen Stewart, Jodelle Ferland, Brent Briscoe, Dustin Milligan, Penelope Ann Miller, Tatiana Maslany, Michael Daingerfield, John Corbett, William B. Davis, Dylan McDermott, Evan Turner, Theodore Turner, Anna Hagan, Shirley McQueen, Blaine Hart, Graham Bell, Peter Scoular, Kaitlyn McMillan
IMDB: The Messengers (2007)
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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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Reviews
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TV Guide Magazine -
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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The A.V. Club -
The Messengers, dutifully cobbles together a pastiche of successful horror films past--"The Grudge," "The Sixth Sense," "The Birds," "The Amityville Horror," and "The Shining"--without asserting a single original idea of its own.
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The New York Times -
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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Variety -
Though the Pangs prove culturally adaptive on a visual level, they seem completely clueless as to the tonal modalities of Mark Wheaton's admittedly undercooked, all-American script.
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Los Angeles Times -
The Messengers is at once ruthlessly efficient and shamelessly distended.
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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.
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.
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.
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.