The Messengers | DVD | Widescreen

An ominous darkness invades a seemingly serene sunflower farm in North Dakota, and the Solomon family is torn apart by suspicion, mayhem and murder.

   A terrified mother and her young son are packing a suitcase. She hears something outside the door and makes her son hide under the bed. The door bursts open and an unseen force throws the mother against the wall, killing her. The son flees and runs into his terrified sister. The boy hides, but his sister is caught and pushed over a banister, then dragged to the cellar. The hiding boy is eventually found by the attacker. Five years later, the Solomon family from Chicago moves into the house, near a small town in North Dakota. Roy Solomon is planning to start a sunflower farm. The teenage daughter, Jess, is upset about moving away from her friends. Some time ago, Jess had driven drunk with her younger brother, Ben, a toddler at the time. She crashed the car, seriously injuring Ben. He recovered from his injuries but does not speak. Her parents, Roy and Denise, have a hard time trusting her and they are broke because of the expenses for Ben's treatment. Roy believes moving to the farm will help heal the family. Ominous events begin to occur. The house always has crows flying around it. Some attack Roy; but they're driven off by a drifter named John Burwell, whom Roy hires as a farmhand. Ben sees ghosts of the mother and the children, though they do not seem to frighten him. Jess is also aware of their presence but does not see them until they try to drag her to the cellar. She calls the police, but they find nothing, further raising tensions between Jess and her parents. Ben witnessed the attack but, still a mute toddler, is unable to confirm her story. Only Bobby, a boy from town whom Jess befriends, supports her. Jess and Ben have more encounters with the ghosts. Jess becomes determined to prove her claims and goes into town with Bobby to learn more. She discovers that the Rollins family, the house's previous owners, left suddenly five years ago. Jess believes that they didn't move, and that something terrible happened to them.