Sunday, October 18, 2009

The Messengers Feb 2007

The movie starts off with an unseen person or entity killing a woman trying to flee with her son and daughter many years ago. Fast forward to present day the Soloman family moves into the farmhouse looking for a fresh start from where they were, including legal troubles from their daughter drunk driving and the toddler who is suffering psychological effects from the resulting accident leaving him unable or unwilling to speak. The son can see the spirits of the before mentioned murdered family still haunting the farmhouse. The husband and father tries to get a sunflower seed crop off the ground with crows circling around. They hire a wandering man looking for work to live and help them out with the crop.
The spirits begin to make themselves known to the older daughter and begin to physically attack and scare her. The parents think she's gone loco until things begin to esculate to the point where mom sees it too. It turns out the hired help was the killer of the first family. It was his own family and he was keeping his wife from taking the children and running with them.
It's a pretty good movie many scenes which makes the eyes open wide and the heart thump wildly.
The wife/mom is played by Penelope Miller. The dad is done by Dylan McDermott. Jess the teenage girl is played by Kristen Stewart.

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