
Roy grabs her hand and with Denise's help, pulls her out.Īlerted by Bobby, police and paramedics arrive shortly after. John grabs Jesse's leg and begins pulling her in. John struggles to come up out of the mud as his dead family pulls him under. After a struggle with Jess, she knocks John into the mud yelling, "we are not your family". He goes into the cellar where John stabs him in the back with a pitch fork. Roy gets home to find Bobby knocked out, asking him where are they. Jess makes it pitch black in the cellar as John knocks the door open, telling his family, "you are not leaving me". Denise is sorry for not believing her about the ghosts. Jess runs to the cellar finding Denise and Ben. Bobby and Jess arrive looking for her mom and Ben when they get attacked by something unseen. She runs into the cellar with Ben and slams the door. He asks her "where are you going, Mary?", thinking she's his wife and attacks her. All of John's memories come rushing back and he sees Denise rushing to leave. Shocked, Jess and Bobby rush back home to warn her family. Burwell is actually John Rollins, the man who, in a fit of madness, murdered his entire family (as shown at the beginning of the film). At a local store, she sees a newspaper clipping of the family, revealing the father to be none other than her dad's new farmhand.

Jess goes into town with Bobby to investigate the house's background. While Denise puts Ben to bed she sees a lady coming out of the wall. Bobby picks her up and they ride into town.īack at the house, a huge murder of crows circle the barn and fly at John attacking him. She goes to the hospital and her parents think she is inflicting her own wounds. She asks him what is wrong and gasps at the eerie sight of him. Jess sees the little boy crying in the corner. Jess says "what do you want from me" as someone crawls across the floor behind her. Jess sees a woman in the sunflower field. Ben can see ghosts of the mother and the children. Some attack Roy but are driven off by a drifter named John Burwell, whom Roy hires as a farmhand. Murders of crows are constantly swarming the home. Roy believes moving to the farm will help heal the family.

Their parents, Roy and Denise, don't trust their irresponsible daughter, and are broke from all the medical expenses. Seriously injured, Ben endures extensive treatment, recovering only to be mute.

Everyone has issues: their teenage daughter, Jess, is unhappy about moving, their son Ben has been traumatized ever since a car accident when Jess drove while drunk with him as a toddler, and crashed the car. Roy Solomon hopes to start a sunflower farm. The prequel, Messengers 2: The Scarecrow, was released in 2009.Ī terrified mother and her young son are packing to flee when an unseen attacker kills the whole family.įive years later, the Solomon family from Chicago moves into the house, near a small town in North Dakota. The graphic novel adaptation was published in January 2007 by Dark Horse Comics, written by Jason Hall, and illustrated by Kelley Jones. Filming took place in the Qu'Appelle Valley near the small community of Abernethy, Saskatchewan, Canada. The film was released on February 2, 2007, and the DVD was released on June 5, 2007. The film is about an ominous darkness that invades a seemingly serene sunflower farm in North Dakota, and the Solomon family-the owners of the farm-who are torn apart by suspicion, mayhem, and murder. Davis, Dylan McDermott, Carter Kolbeck and Penelope Ann Miller. It stars Kristen Stewart, John Corbett, William B. The Messengers is a 2007 supernatural horror film directed by the Pang Brothers, and produced by Sam Raimi.
