THE MESSENGERS

Year: 2007
USA: Sony Pictures Releasing
UK: Momentum Pictures
UK DVD: Momentum Pictures
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Dylan McDermott, Penelope Ann Miller, John Corbett, Evan Turner, Theodore Turner, William B Davis, Brent Briscoe, Dustin Milligan, Jodelle Ferland, Michael Daingerfield, Tatiana Maslany, Shirley McQueen, Anna Hagan, Blaine Hart, Graham Bell, Kaitlyn McMillan, Peter Scoula
Directors: Danny Pang, Oxide Pang
Country: USA
USA & UK: 90 mins
USA Rated: PG-13 for mature thematic material, disturbing violence and terror
UK certificate: 15 contains strong horror and moderate violence
USA Release Date: 2 February 2007
UK Release Date: 6 April 2007
UK DVD Release Date: 13 August 2007


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Synopsis

There is evidence to suggest that children are highly susceptible to paranormal phenomenon.
They can see what adults cannot.
They believe what adults deny.
And they are trying to warn us.

In THE MESSENGERS, a thriller starring Kristen Stewart as Jess, Dylan McDermott and Penelope Ann Miller as Jess’ parents Roy and Denise Solomon and John Corbett as field hand John Burwell, the Solomon family has left the fast paced life of Chicago for the secluded world of a North Dakota farm. Amidst the peaceful sway of the farm’s field of sunflowers, Jess, 16, soon realizes how terrifying seclusion can be when she and her brother Ben, 3, begin seeing ominous apparitions invisible to everyone else. When those spirits become violent, Jess’ sanity is questioned - a double jeopardy for the tormented teen. Her troublesome past comes face to face with the past of those who once lived in the house, a perilous confrontation that leaves her believability in question with those she desperately tries to warn before it is too late. Nothing is what it seems on the Solomon farm and the harbingers of doom are gravely underestimated.

Brothers Danny and Oxide Pang direct their first American feature film and English language debut, They have turned the ghost genre inside out with THE MESSENGERS and it was their real life brush with the paranormal that influenced their enhancement of the story from page to screen.

DVD EXTRAS

Trailer
Dolby Digital 5.1
40 mins Making of
30 mins of webisodes