THE MESSENGERS(2007)

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Plot

At the movie's beginning, a frightened woman is with her son, telling him that he has to be strong and that everything is going to be okay. She hears something coming towards the door and makes her son hide under the bed. The door bursts open and an unseen figure throws the woman against the wall. The son, terrified, runs out of the room and into his sister, who is also scared. She grabs him and runs down the stairs. The boy hides under a table, but his sister is caught and dragged away, down into the cellar. The boy runs into the kitchen and hides in a cabinet, but he is soon found and pulled out.

Five years later, a new family is moving into the house from the city, hoping to start a sunflower farm. The main character, the daughter in the family, Jess Solomon (Kristen Stewart), is upset about having to move away from her friends. Previous to the events in movie, she had been driving drunk with her younger brother, Ben, a toddler at the time. In her intoxicated state, she caused an accident and since then Ben has been mute. However, her brother sees things the other people cannot the ghosts of the family killed in the movie's opening scenes. To round out the characters, Jess' father, Roy, hires a man by the name of John Burwell to work on the farm.

Ominous events gradually build: First, the house always seems to have crows flying around it; some crows even attack Roy. Then, Jess has an encounter with one of the ghosts, the mother, in the cellar. She calls 911 and the authorities come, only to find a terrified Jess. The police dismiss it as a false alarm and Jess' parents do not believe her either. While Ben saw what happened, being very young and mute he cannot confirm her story. Only Bobby, a teenage boy from town whom Jess befriends, supports her.

Jess and Ben have more encounters with the ghosts haunting the house and Jess acquires some scars and bruises from one of them. Her parents think that her wounds are self-inflicted because she wants to leave the house, her life there being so much different from her old one, and will not believe her that ghosts are haunting it. Because her parents don't believe her tensions rise and Jess becomes determined to fix things.

Jess later finds out more details about the Rollins family. According to the locals, the family had lived in the house but left suddenly. However, Jess sees a picture of them, with John in it. It turns out the man who killed the past owners of the house in a fit of madness is actually John, who was the head of the Rollins family. Jess takes Bobby to the house to tell her family before something happens. Back at home, Jess's mother, Denise, is putting Ben to sleep when she notices the blood spot on the wall is coming back even though she has already cleaned it. Turns out, this is the spot where the mother was thrown against the wall, and suddenly Denise sees the spirit of the mother coming out of the wall, right where the blood spot is. She then packs suitcases and starts putting them on the porch. This upsets John, who is having flashbacks of his wife Mary trying to leave him in the same way after he is attacked by a huge murder of crows. He runs to the house and attack Denise. Denise grabs Ben and runs into the cellar to hide. Bobby and Jess arrive and Jess, calls for her mother and father. John surprises them from behind and knocks out Bobby. Jess runs into the cellar and bolts the door. While John is looking for something to get into the cellar, Jess runs down to her mother to try and help her. She further barricades the door and blocks all the windows and breaks the lightbulbs so they can stay hidden. John gets into the cellar and looks around for Jess and Denise and Ben. Roy comes home and, following the noise, makes his way into the cellar. Jess calls out to him in warning but, again, John surprises him and stabs him in the back. Denise hides Ben in a box and attacks John but he knocks Denise out with a shovel. He nearly stabs Jess until she rolls away. The three spirits then appear, sucking John into the cellar floor. He makes one last grab at Jess but she is saved by her family.

At the end of the film things return to normal. The crows stop attacking people, the ghosts stop appearing, and Ben starts talking.