Dustin Milligan, Dylan McDermott, Graham Bell, John Corbett, Kristen Stewart ...( see more  see more... ) , Michael Daingerfield , Penelope Ann Miller

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.

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48% liked it

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11% liked it

81 critics

PG-13, 1 hr. 30 min.

Directed by: Danny Pang, Oxide Pang Chun

Release Date: February 7, 2007

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DVD Release Date: June 5, 2007

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  • August 21, 2009
    Creepy, but not as good as it could've been. I thought it would be better.
  • May 9, 2009
    Not very scary but entertaining enough that I watch it each time it comes on. Does have a creep factor to it.
  • April 23, 2009
    Not a bad film as far as teen type horrors go, it certainly keeps the attention throughout with a couple of jumpy moments and some interesting moments graphically with the ghosts.
  • October 31, 2008
    I would have given it two stars, but I feel the need to penalize Dylan McDermott, Penelope Ann Miller and John Corbett for reading this script and actually thinking being in this turd of a film was a good idea. This movie was loaded with cliches and bad lines, and didn't have th...( read more)e suspense necessary to hold my interest.
  • September 14, 2008
    It was alright.
  • February 7, 2010
    i have just watched a movie on tv and by chance was it......................what pushed me to watch it was Kristen Stewart, i admire her. it wasmy 3rd time for seeing her after twilight series. the IDEA of the film is old , most of events were expected,but the good that it weren...( read more)'t a lot of bleeding scenes.
  • February 2, 2010
    i like this movie i brought it the other day on dvd by jenny
  • January 31, 2010
    the messenger was an ok movie wasent a favourite but was good seening kristen stewart in like kinda horror movie ive seen her in twilight cake eaters the messenger,

    the house they move in is haunted and she realise theres ghost in em and her baby brother can see em now shes gott...( read more)a save her family and help the family ghost to move on.
  • January 27, 2010
    I actually jumped. Some scenes were really scary.
  • January 27, 2010
    For a horror movie it wasn't scary the music just shocked you every five minutes, but i've already seen this stuff before from the scary movie series. Kristen Stewart did a great job:) It was a horror movie that had a great storyline.

Critic Reviews


February 26, 2008
Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness

The only message worth relaying about The Messengers is: Avoid. full review

May 28, 2007
Ty Burr, Dallas Morning News

The MessengersI/i> is textbook, and the course it's teaching is HSL: Horror as a Second Language. full review

February 2, 2007
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune

The most frightening aspect of the film is that it will soon be haunting the bargain bins of shoddy video stores. full review

February 2, 2007
Ty Burr, Boston Globe

The grown-ups fare worse: They speak . . . very . . . slowly . . . as if to pad the running time out. This may in fact be the most ridiculous performance John Corbett has ever given. full review

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Comments


  • PRiiNzEziiTa89
    April 27, 2009
    It was a good movie, but i felt it ended a little too quickly.. And there are some parts on the box, that dont come out on the movie [like it shows that it does].. oh well, all in all, i liked it.. it was okay.
  • mirree
    March 6, 2008
    The plot given by Flixster for this film is completely inaccurate. There were no odd changes in the dad besides the fact that he wanted to make the farm work.

    The plot is that a family move to a run down farm (that is correct) where the daughter is miserable because of some mystery bad trouble she got into back at her old home town (you find out what it was ages later in the film) and the little boy who doesn't seem to talk seems to be able to see things. The daughter also starts to see these but no one believes her and the story goes from there!

    There were some gaps in the story line as the poster below mentioned. Such as why were they attacking her and not the boy, what did they want ...etc but I thought it was still worth the £6 I paid for it! lol
  • robvicary
    November 18, 2007
    Okay, if the ghosts were trying to warn the family of the danger they were in, why did they beat the crap out of the teenage girl? And why would they try to warn the little kid who can't even speak?
    And what was the deal with the creepy lawyer who kept showing up with papers saying that someone else wanted to buy the house? Was that supposed to be significant of something? Seemed to me that was a subplot that must have been abandoned during filming. Junk.
  • XXXXGoodbyeXXXXX
    November 18, 2007
    OMG you cant live without seeing this movie it rocks a lot of jumpy parts those ghosts faces were FREAKY!!!! especially when that girl came out of the wall!!!! THat was freaky!!!! Anyways see this!!!
  • lOvEiSpRiCeLeSs
    November 8, 2007
    This is a excelent movie me and my friend watched it and some parts made us jump out of our seats.......the end was very unexpected.....it was scary when she almost got pulled dwon the stairs,and when the boy pulled down his eye lids when his mom asked what he saw......FREAKY MAN!but it was good,more like excelent,well anyway it was one of my favorites and i think i might buy it......TTYL!
  • graphicopal
    July 13, 2007
    crookedcricket -
    That's something that can make a movie great. Or a story. They're SUPPOSED to give you 2+2 - but not 4.
  • amy4ever07
    July 1, 2007
    OMG i watched this movie and loved it!!..some parts scared the crap outta me (well not literally) but anyways it was soooo good. the little boy in the movie is ADORABLE.. he was just soo cute.. I RECOMMEND THIS MOVIE!!
  • crAzySk8TerChiCk
    June 27, 2007
    I LOVE THIS MOVIE.. me and my friend saw it and it wasnt that scary i mean it was awsome and if you didnt like it then o well
  • pbol
    June 25, 2007
    realy scary the dead dudes sounded like paper and were realy creepy and stuff ,and a verry surpising endding
  • princessnatali
    June 14, 2007
    hola esta super tus imagenes sol te digo para que veas tambien te des una vuelta por el mi atte pirincess

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