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Best movie ever!

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Jess (played by the annoying Twilight actress), recently got drunk and nearly killed her little brother Ben in a car crash. Both kids turned out okay physically, but Jess has extreme guilt and Ben can't speak a single word anymore. The family moves out to rural North Dakota (Saskatchewan) to make money growing sunflowers. Only Jess and Ben can detect that the decrepit house has a dark past, and might be haunted by the spirits of a family brutally slaughtered there years ago.The Messengers has eerie soundtrack that really fits the scenery; speaking of scenery it's great horror material, especially the rotten old basement and manure pit where the dead family was buried after the murder. The acting was okay (aside from Kristen Stewart, she was just another emo teenage girl).The cons far outweigh the pros. For one thing there are a ton of plot holes. Who was the creepy real-estate guy who kept showing up like a ghost, what was his purpose? Why was there a manure pit in the basement!? Ewww! How come when Jess was suspected of self-harm she was just casually released from the hospital as if she had a paper cut? How does a car accident cause a kid to be unable to speak?I don't know if anyone else noticed, but The Messengers seems to mimic the 1980 horror/slasher film The Shining. The Messengers spawned a 2009 remake called Scarecrow, which was pretty pathetic.I'm not saying this is a bad film, but there are several things to improve on. Change Jess' actress, give Mr. Real-Estate Agent guy a purpose and maybe think more where the scenery is placed... I lived in a farmhouse and never did we keep a manure heap in our basement...It was SO COOL to see Canadian actor William B. Davis play the minor role of the creepy real-estate agent, he played the role of the Cigarette Smoking Man on The X - Files, the CSM was my idol as a kid.

I tried hard not to let my aversion to Kristen Stewart influence my opinion of The Messengers, honestly I did, but her whole demeanour is simply too irritating to ignore (my dislike is also not helped by the fact that the actress starred in those horrible Twilight flicks where the undead sparkle and fall in lurve!).Still, even if I didn't have issues with the star, I doubt I would have enjoyed this film very much: the script is a mess of clichés, plot holes and sheer stupidity (invite a straggle-haired, shotgun-toting drifter into your home at your own peril) and the treatment by directors Danny and Oxide Pang proves far from original, the pair merely replicating elements from a whole host of Asian supernatural horrors (including their own The Eye and The Eye 2).I'm sick and tired of creepy figures crawling awkwardly in the shadows; a horrible apparition gliding across a room no longer makes my skin crawl; mysterious stains appearing on walls are not scary; and a loud sound as something passes unexpectedly in front of the camera just annoys me. Oh, and I don't like Kristen Stewart. I think that just about covers it

This is the best ghost movie i think i have ever seen. The special effects were very good if not great. I get really tired of reading reviews of very good movies that are almost always bad. So i thought i would write a review of a very good movie for a chance. If you like ghost movies, this one is the best i have ever seen. I usually do not like ghost movies, i cannot ever be scared of one, but this one has a very different take and the ending explains the entire movie. The cast is excellent, the special effects are very good and the plot is good as well. A little slow at first, but as the movie goes along, the better it gets. This is a movie well worth seeing.

Desperate for a new beginning to their lives, the Soloman family move to a deserted area in North Dakota. The farmhouse that they move into holds some deadly secrets. The family who used to live there mysteriously disappeared one day five years prior. Sixteen year old Jess and her three year old brother begin to see things around the house, ghastly things. Unfortunately for Jess, her parents won't believe her. There is an interesting twist to it all as we discover who or what killed the family years ago. Will Jess and her family survive supernatural threats as well as human?The Messengers gives us two genre's in one. We see Jess deal with the forces from beyond the grave (the ghosts on the Rollins family who died there) as well as the one responsible for murdering the family five years prior. So it feels a lot like Amityville Horror meets Halloween. Unfortunately, The Messengers doesn't provide many scares at all. There are some creepy moments with the "ghosts" creeping up around the family, but nothing overly frightening. The identity of who killed the family was not shocking, it's pretty easy to guess it early on. Acting was good enough from Kristen Stewart (pre-Twilight days) and Penelope Ann Miller.The plot of 'The Messengers' sounds good enough, but at the core of it all is just an average horror movie. It's not very scary, there isn't much (if any) gore, and it doesn't succeed in keeping my interest for long. It felt like a PG-13 movie, which is what it was. I'm going to have to watch the sequel they made, which apparently is a prequel to this one. Hopefully it will be better.5/10