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The Messengers

Play trailer Poster for The Messengers PG-13,  2007,  1h 25m,  Horror/ Mystery & Thriller Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 10% 79 Reviews Tomatometer 44% 250,000+ Ratings Popcornmeter
10% Tomatometer 79 Reviews 44% Popcornmeter 250,000+ Ratings
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 Feb 26, 2008
C-
The only message worth relaying about The Messengers is: Avoid. Go to Full Review
Peter Bradshaw Guardian Apr 7, 2007
2/5
It's pretty ordinary genre stuff. Go to Full Review
Simon Crook Empire Magazine Apr 6, 2007
2/5
It's like a movie premonition - you've seen it all before. Go to Full Review
Patrick Cavanaugh The Wolfman Cometh Sep 9, 2025
2/5
Tries to position itself is a thought-provoking haunted house movie, only to fall into all of the exact same tropes as its peers. Go to Full Review
Steve Newton Georgia Straight Jul 6, 2010
1/5
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. Go to Full Review
Steve Biodrowski ESplatter Jul 15, 2008
There are flashes of good imagery in The Messengers, but [they] work better in the trailer, unencumbered by the dreary plot. Go to Full Review
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Draco M Dec 17, 2018 A few scares in a thriller that manages to rip off several different horror films and genres.
Finn S Oct 28, 2018 Not even remotely scary and the acting is plain bad.
Leia W Oct 21, 2017 I think this was awesome and Kristen Stewart was great
Theodore P Jun 14, 2017 its a good movie. i think its scarier than other scary movies
Hermione L Dec 18, 2016 The Messengers has the beginnings of a frightening, effectively basic throwback to supernatural chillers, but given the amount of writers and directors on board, nothing particularly scary or fresh is presented to the table, resulting in a film that adds little to the haunted house subgenre. See more
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Danny Pang

Director

Oxide Chun Pang

Director

Kristen Stewart

Jess

Dylan McDermott

Roy

Penelope Ann Miller

Denise

John Corbett

Johnny Burwell

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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
Columbia Pictures, Mandate Pictures, Ghost House 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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