The Messengers (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Messengers |
| Original title | The Messengers |
| Country of production | USA , Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Oxide Pang , Danny Pang |
| script |
Stuart Beattie , Todd Farmer, Mark Wheaton |
| production |
Sam Raimi , William Sherak , Jason Shuman , Robert G. Tapert |
| music | Joseph LoDuca |
| camera | David Geddes |
| cut |
John Axelrad , Armen Minasian , Tim Mirkovich |
| occupation | |
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The Messengers is an American-Canadian horror film by the Hong Kong brothers Oxide and Danny Pang from 2007 .
action
At the beginning of the plot, the murder of a woman and her children by an unknown perpetrator in an American country house is shown. Five years later, the unemployed Roy Solomon moves with his family from the city of Chicago to the country, because he expects a lot from the sunflower farm he has bought. His daughter Jess is not very enthusiastic and does not feel understood by her parents. Her little brother Ben is the only one she feels close to, especially since she believes she is guilty of his not speaking anymore. She had caused a car accident while drunk that traumatized Ben . But then strange things happen in the old house; the mysterious cellar door cannot be opened in this way.
Jess tries to find out more about the old house. She learns that her brother can see mysterious figures - the messengers. Things seem scary to her mother in the house too, B. a stain on the wall that keeps reappearing. However, when Jess is attacked by one of the messengers she previously chased, her parents believe she harmed herself to get attention. After a while, however, her mother also sees a messenger. John Burwell, the helper on the farm, is attacked by ravens. In a panic, he has the vision that his wife wants to leave him. At this point the viewer learns that John Burwell's real name is John Rollins, the man who five years earlier had killed his wife and children in the house because they wanted to leave him. In his madness, John attacks Jess' mother, who eventually flees from him into the basement. Jess, who met a friend in town, sees a photo of the wanted murderer John Rollins in a newspaper and recognizes him as her father's helper. Deeply worried, she drives back to the farm, accompanied by her friend. This is knocked down there by John, while Jess escapes to her mother and brother in the basement. In the basement she smashes all the lamps so that John doesn't discover her.
Suddenly the unsuspecting family man Roy appears. He too is seriously injured by John. John discovers Jess, he addresses her by the name of his daughter Lindsay, who was murdered by him, and wants to stab her. But at that moment the floor opens and the Messengers - his dead family - pull John down to them. John's hand emerges from the hole and pulls Jess by one leg. But the injured Roy intervenes at the last moment and pulls together with his wife Jess out of the hole in the ground. John disappears.
Now finally the parents believe their daughter. The messengers, however, are now giving the house its peace, since they have now got what they wanted - revenge on their murderer.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films describes The Messengers as “a dull horror and ghost film that is equally predictable in the drawing of the family and in the escalation of ghost terror. Even if the renunciation of blood and violence is positive, in this case the harmlessness is too much. "
Commercial win
The film grossed around $ 55 million worldwide, with a production cost of 16 million.
additional
- There is a comic version that was published by Dark Horse Comics .
- In 2009, the film Messengers 2: The Scarecrow was released as a direct-to-video production. In its plot, it precedes the plot of The Messengers (so-called prequel ). The story of the Rollins family is discussed. Norman Reedus and Claire Holt play the leading roles.
Web links
- The Messengers in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for The Messengers . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2007 (PDF; test number: 110 584 K).
- ^ The Messengers in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed December 18, 2008
- ↑ Box office (Engl.)