The Messengers is a 2007 horror film directed by the Pang Brothers and produced by Sam Raimi. It stars Graham Bell, John Corbett, William B. Davis, Dylan McDermott, Penelope Ann Miller, and Kristen Stewart. The plot of the film is about an ominous darkness that invades a seemingly serene sunflower farm in North Dakota, and the Solomon family is torn apart by suspicion, mayhem, and murder.
Although the setting of the film is in North Dakota, filming actually took place in the Qu'Appelle Valley near the small community of Abernethy, Saskatchewan.
The graphic novel adaptation will be published in January 2007 by Dark Horse Comics, written by Jason Hall and illustrated by Kelley Jones.
Promotion
To promote "The Messengers," Sony Pictures has included in its dossier of digital-marketing tools a ringtone only young consumers can hear.
"Ultrasonic ringtones -- ringtones that are audible to teenagers but not adults -- are a featured aspect of the film's promotional campaign, which is geared toward a teen audience and inspired by the movie's story line about a young female protagonist insisting she hears voices that her parents cannot hear."
Also, AIM has advertised the movie, by making a screen name for the main character Jess that is Jess2Feb07, that ties in with the movie realease date. AIM users can add her to their buddy list and IM her, then she will give them her phone number to talk to with them while she goes to the basement to check it for noises.
The Phone number is: 800-899-9619
1. SYNOPSYS
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.
2. NOTHING
IS WHAT IT SEEMS ON THE SOLOMON FARM
What goes bump in the night happens by day. Tranquility is the haven for terror.
And the harbingers of doom are gravely underestimated.
3. THE
HAUNTED MIND…
Psychotherapy and mythic story telling share a common metaphor – utilizing
the haunted house to replicate the haunted mind. Some rooms are too painful
to enter, some inner demons buried deep in the basement of the subconscious,
too terrifying to explore.
4. PUSHIING
UP SUNFLOWERS…
Always sunny, very calm, the sunflowers just kind of sway
in this serenity, oblivious to the menace of the crows or
the chaos of the past that is literally surfacing out of
the ground they are growing in…it’s just creepy…an
awesome contradiction between the setting and the action of this movie. – Kristen
Stewart.
5. DON’’T
SHOOT THE MESSENGER…
'The crows are like a signal, a kind of warning but they cannot speak. So they
must try to communicate through their actions,' says Oxide Pang. 'They are
a messenger to the living.'
6. THE
SCARIING POIINT…
“It’s rugged. It’s dirty. It is dark and sharp-looking. There
are no soft edges. It is like everything on the farm – hard, like the scythes
and the sickles and the old dead tractor.” This is how Stewart sees Jess’ new
home and new world.
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