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United StatesLanguageEnglishBudget$16 millionBox office$55 millionThe Messengers is a 2007 Canadian-American directed by, and produced. It stars, Carter Kolbeck. The film is about an ominous darkness that invades a seemingly serene sunflower farm in, and the Solomon family—the owners of the farm—who are torn apart by suspicion, mayhem, and.The film was released on February 2, 2007, and the was released on June 5, 2007. Filming took place in the near the small community of, Canada. The graphic novel adaptation was published in January 2007 by, written by, and illustrated.
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The prequel, was released in 2009. Contents.Plot A terrified mother and her young son are packing to flee when an unseen attacker kills the whole family.Five years later, the Solomon family from Chicago moves into the house, near a small town in. Roy Solomon hopes to start a sunflower farm.
Everyone has issues. Their teenage daughter, Jess, is unhappy about moving, their son Ben has been traumatized ever since a car accident when Jess drove while drunk with him as a toddler, and crashed the car.
Seriously injured, Ben endures extensive treatment, recovering only to be. Her parents, Roy and Denise, don't trust their irresponsible daughter, and are broke from all the medical expenses. Roy believes moving to the farm will help heal the family.Ominous events begin to occur. Flocks of crows are constantly swarming the home. Some attack Roy but are driven off by a drifter named John Burwell, whom Roy hires as a farmhand. Ben can see ghosts of the mother and the children. In the night, Jess sees Ben walking into the barn, and follows him.
When the doors slam shut, Jess flees to the house but steps into a quicksand-type mud pit, sinking until she is up to her neck, clawing to get free. She wakes thinking it was a dream, until lifting her blanket confirms that it was real.Jess goes into town with Bobby to investigate the house's background. She discovers that the previous family left suddenly five years ago.
Jess has her doubts and guesses something terrible happened to them. At a local store, she sees a newspaper clipping of the family, revealing the father to be none other than her dad's new farmhand. Burwell is actually John Rollins, the man who, in a fit of madness, murdered his entire family (as shown at the beginning of the film).
Shocked, Jess and Bobby rush back home to warn her family.Denise is in the basement when John attacks her. She attempts to run upstairs but John grabs her ankle as Bobby and Jess arrive, only for John to knock Bobby out. Jess runs into the cellar finding Denise and Ben.
Denise is sorry for not believing her about the ghosts. John, believing them to be his own family, stabs Roy when he turns up. After a struggle with Jess, John drags her down to the basement into the mud with him. As she goes under, an injured Roy grabs her hand and with Denise's help, pulls her out.Alerted by Bobby, police and paramedics arrive shortly after. As her dad is put in the ambulance, he apologizes to Jess.
Awhile after, everything returns to normal and their happiness is restored: the crows no longer attack, ghosts stop appearing, and Ben starts talking again.Cast. as Jessica 'Jess' Solomon. as Roy Solomon. as Denise Solomon. as John Burwell/John Rollins.
Evan and Theodore Turner as Ben Solomon. as Colby Price. as Plume. as Bobby. as Michael Rollins.
as Police Officer. as Lindsay Rollins. Shirley McQueen as Mary Rollins. Kieria Robinson as Katy TurnerProduction. This section does not any. Unsourced material may be challenged and.Find sources: – ( May 2017) Ravens were used in the movie, not crows, however the characters say 'crows' in the film.
The production team could not obtain trained crows required for certain scenes.The film began life as an original script called The Scarecrow. It was originally written as a psychological thriller as opposed to a more supernatural horror film. It was about a family on a farm suffering from financial problems and bad weather seasons. When the patriarch puts up a strange out in the field, things start to change.
But then people start to get killed, and the main character suspects the scarecrow. By the end, the main character is revealed actually to have caused the killings himself.The script was sold to.
Director signed on to the film, and put a supernatural flair into the story. Revolution then brought in to rewrite the script.
'What I pitched was 'the horror version of,' said Farmer, 'and what they wanted was ' on a farm.' ' Revolution then sold it to Ghost House Pictures, who then took it and hired Mark Wheaton to rewrite it. None of the original script survived through the rewrites, besides the farm setting, and character names.The original Scarecrow script was finally used as the basis for the,.Reception Box office The Messengers placed first in box office receipts for the weekend of February 2–4, 2007. In its first weekend of release, the film grossed $14.7 million. The film grossed $55 million overall. Critical response On, the film has an approval rating of 12% based on 84 reviews and an average rating of 3.7/10. The site's critical consensus reads, ' The Messengers is an atmospheric but derivative rip-off of countless other horror movies.'
On, the film has a score of 34 out of 100 based on 16 critics, indicating 'generally unfavorable reviews'. Audiences polled by gave the film an average grade of 'C–' on an A+ to F scale.Film critic Nigel Floyd wrote in, 'many of the images feel over-familiar, and the shocks a mite too forced.' IGN Movies wrote in its review, 'It's The Grudge on a farm,' and concluded, 'The problem with The Messengers is that it simply doesn't offer up much of anything new.' Lou Lumenick wrote in the that the films was 'nicely photographed but slow-moving, dull, and utterly predictable.'
Scott Tobias of wrote that the film was 'technically proficient enough to deliver the requisite jolts, but haunts the film as surely as its pasty-faced, hitch-stepped ghoulies, and it's hard to shake the impression that we've seen this movie before.' Writing for the site Reel Views, James Berardinelli wrote that ' The Messengers borrows so heavily from (other horror movies) that it has no room left for anything of its own. Prequel A prequel titled was released on July 21, 2009. The Rollins Family are the film's main characters.
It stars and Australian actress.Book A comic version of the film was published by in January 2007.See also.References.