The Movie: The Messengers, directed by Oxide Pang Chun and Danny Pang
Recommendation: Nobody.
Reason: I saw the commercials and was really struck by one section-the teenage girl being snatched back through a doorway by greyed hands.
I like horror movies. I really do. My wall is heavily seeded towards that end, ranging from The Descent to Scream to...eurgh...Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation. So I sometimes get excited by new concepts and interesting visuals, which the previews of The Messengers certainly included-the child's legs appearing as a bedspread billows upwards was quite eyecatching. I usually forget that movies with interesting visuals tend to sort of suck in the story and horror department.
As it turns out, this movie was filmed in my province. Credit should be given, I couldn't tell, but then again North Dakota and Saskatchewan do look a little alike. Wish I had known this was happening. I might have been able to stop it. The Messengers isn't a bad movie so much as it is damn boring. Seriously boring. The 'shocks' are telegraphed horribly and the 'scary' never comes. It's basically Cold Creek Manner without Stephen Dorff's innate ability to create utter crap.
Apparently it hit #1 in between Epic Movie and Norbit, which just goes to show that the stupid ran high for three weeks in February. Don't bother seeing The Messengers. There are better things to do with your time. Watch The Changeling. I've heard it's good.
-136/365 down, 229/365 to go
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