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Good Scares: Satisfying Jolts
I feel like I saw a different film after all the negative reviews here.Ever since I saw the promos for MESSENGERS I was caught by the basic idea of kids seeing the spirits: Its a common enough motif, but not done in the same way as done in the messengers. <
>I will say up front that whom-ever did the sound design in this made the 5.1 experience the best.I can see why on some level some might not be so happy with the film experience, especially if a large part of the scare lives in the audio. <
>The story line is fine.Nothing outrageously original, but its aimed at a PG13 audience, and so understand the ascerbic reviews against this film with that in mind.I think that Ghost House Productions has a long way to go before it can satisfy a large majority of film goers who clearly like this film, and the demands of the "Horror" fans who possibly cannot be satiated.Just my view, but so far GHOST HOUSE productions seem to be doing a great job.About all I would like to see is an uncut option that ramps up the scares, and I don't mean the double dip uncut that has been done where a movie gets released, then 8 to 12 months later the "Uncut" Version comes out... Uncut should be on the same disc as the Theatrical, or as an alternative to the Theatrical when it goes to DVD ( or whatever format wins). <
>The Bonuses are good, also: Not excessive, but enough to give you extra info in the featurettes. And the commentary has a few words that make me think that an uncut might be on the way... but I am not sure, since they would probably have to reshoot some elements.

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OK Ghost Story
I had high hope for this one, but it disappointed me. Not much of a plot. Dragged out. Things that go bump in the night over and over again. <
>It was OK, but I can't really recommend it. But I'll give it two stars because I have seen a lot worse.

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The Messengers Just Can't Get Their Message Across...
The Messengers quickly set itself up to be a great horror movie. It had a great tagline, a scary trailer, ghosts and things that go bump just at the right sensitive fist-clinching moment. I wanted to see it from day one, and anxiously awaited the DVD. <
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>The movie opens with a black and white intro of a mother and two kids being stalked in their home and killed by "something." The family is oddly somewhat Asian looking, giving the movie a "Grudge" like feel. The movie was developed by the Pang brothers. As the camera pans back, we see large crows on the roof of the big farmhouse, very Hitchcockish. <
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>Enter a troubled family relocating from Chicago to start over after some trouble with their teen daughter. They move into the farmhouse to grow sunflowers, and suddenly the daughter starts sensing things in the house. The infant son giggles at feet dangling out of the ceiling. The scenes of the sunflower farm in bloom with the ominous-looking house in the background and all the crows flying overhead is beautiful. The spooky clicks and bumps, and ghost child robotically crawling on the ceiling sets the mood for a perfect ghost story. However, the message is quickly lost. <
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>The ghosts in the house taunt the infant son, Ben, who isn't afraid at all but can't speak to even get across a message. The ghosts themselves are just there to set up intense scenes that will definitely have your skin crawling, but don't seem to be trying to send messages either. <
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>Your typical horror stand-by characters are soon introduced to leave you wondering who knows what happened, who did it, and who knows the way out. There's a basketball playing boyfriend for the teen daughter who turns out to either know nothing or know only what some childhood ghost stories taught him. There's a banker lurking around the farm pushing another offer for the family to sell the farm and make a profit. And there's an unemployed farmhand in need of work who is hired to help with the sunflowers. <
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>The previous conflict with the teen daughter is an easy blame for the things she is seeing now, and for the parents to not believe her. The giggling son with ghouls behind him, threatening crows looming overhead, and the thick fields of gentle sunflowers outside the big spooky farmhouse all conjure up thoughts of legendary horror movies everyone knows and loves. <
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>But the overall message of the movie is quickly dismissed as an unsolved murder that the daughter solves thanks to a newspaper clipping on the wall of a feed store. There's nothing really left for the viewer to think about afterwards or to puzzle over. It's cheap scary fun that just gets spoon fed to you and all gets wrapped up nicely in the end. <
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>The ghost effects are fun for a quick scare. Rent this one for some cheap thrills and fluffy plot on Halloween sleepovers. But don't expect much on substance. Can't kill the messenger here, they're already dead. And this movie is a dead dud too.