Stay Away From This Movie!!

United States
February 2, 2007 1:45pm CST
Just got back from watching "The Messengers". What a truly awful movie..stay away at all costs. If you've seen the trailer, you've seen all the decent bits (and those were few and far between). Yet another disappointment for horror movie fans.
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17 responses
• Canada
2 Feb 07
Thanks for the heads-up on this one, inked4life! I don't "do" horror movies (as I'm a certified "big baby" LOL) but my sister loves them and she was just mentioning "The Messengers" this morning. Mind you, I think she said she was going to wait and see it as a rental -- perhaps, in that case, it won't be such a big loss.
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• United States
2 Feb 07
waiting for rental may be the best idea as I have a feeling there will be a directors cut of this one...it looked to me like the studios wanted it kept fairly light so the teenage crowd could go see it.
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@brimia (6581)
• United States
2 Feb 07
Really? It looked good from the commercials. I'm glad you posted this because I was planning on going to see it. BTW, why was it so bad?
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• United States
2 Feb 07
I thought the trailer was great too and had actually read an article about it in Rue Morgue (a horror magazine), and it sounded really interesting. It's like a really watered down version of The Grudge (very similar plotline too) and the scenes with the ghosts are ALL shown in the trailer...about 2 minutes of screentime total
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@Ravenladyj (22904)
• United States
2 Feb 07
AW NO WAY!!! man that so sucks! I thought that it was goin to be a good one (finally...we're definately due for a good horror flick thats for sure)....What a drag..
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@Fishmomma (11377)
• United States
2 Feb 07
Thanks for the warning. Its so costly to see a movie these days that I don't want to see a bad movie. The trailers sure have looked good.
@sweetmia (454)
• Philippines
3 Feb 07
its that bad huh? the trailer was very inviting, i was not planning to see this but that's only because i dont watch horror movies.. too scary for me..
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@LittleMel (8742)
• Canada
2 Feb 07
Oh really? I wasn't going to watch it I think it's some kind of ghost story. Might as well I bouth the new Omen. thanks for posting anyway
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• United States
2 Feb 07
thanks for posting!! i was planning to buy it
@jamz82 (1860)
• Italy
6 Feb 07
I don't know that movie, maybe I won't see it there are so much cool movies out I wanna see. I've something like more than 20 horror movie to see in dvd.
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• United States
8 Feb 07
omg. i was hoping it would be a good movie. i heard it wasn't bad from another user, but that person also liked amityville horror. i hated that movie and she said it was like that movie. too bad. thanks for the heads up.
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@crazynurse (7482)
• United States
3 Feb 07
That's too bad. I am glad you alerted us, as my teens and I wanted to go see this movie. We are not into the watered down junk, we want the type of horror flick that causes soiled 'drawers,' profuse sweating, racing hearts, dilated pupils and a propencity to looking over one's shoulders for the next few weeks!
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• United States
5 Feb 07
* holds side from too much laughter* You are just too much.
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• United States
4 Feb 07
the last time I had that feeling, I had just ate some bad mexican food at a Days Inn in Alabama.
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• Indonesia
6 Feb 07
yup I saw it last day so awful......
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@cheerldr (594)
• Philippines
6 Feb 07
Oh, thanks for that. I had plans of watching that movie this week, but since you warned us, I wont watch it anymore.
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• United States
3 Feb 07
i wasnt planning to watch it.. but d trailer seemed interesting. but yea thanks for reminding us. maybe i'll just take a look wen d dvd comes out and rent it.
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@lisa101 (1362)
• United States
9 Feb 07
Thanks for letting us know. I try to stay on top of the horror movies but hear lately i have slacked a bit and i appreciate you keeping me updated.
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@Keryden (240)
• United States
10 Feb 07
thanks for the heads up man, I was just about to stop posting and watch it. Guess I'll make some other plans.I heard from other people it was uber crappy too.
• United States
10 Feb 07
if you're looking for a decent new horror movie to watch, try renting "Altered"...it's a low budget alien flick with lots of good gore and a decent storyline. Made by the same guy that directed Blair Witch
@arunr175 (1678)
• India
12 Aug 12
The Messengers - The Messengers, starring Dylan McDermott, Penelope Ann Miller and Kristen Stewart
I have never read about The Messengers before this, thanks for posting about this worse horror movie, I will be avoiding it if I cam across this movie. But in imdb.com it has a good review, seems kind of interesting ....
• Philippines
13 Aug 12
I watched it. It is horrible indeed. But the girl there kinda looks like the bella from twilight. Is she the one in messengers? haha