The Messengers

I was going to write more about "Bad Family" but turns out I went to the movie this week and wanted to write about "The Messengers" instead. However I will continue to write more on"Bad Family" in the future.

"The Messengers" first surprised me by being one of the many works done by my favorite horror directors, The Pang Brothers. I've been a great fan of their movie (although I haven't see a lot of them) ever since I saw "The Eye" and whoever haven't seen it I recommend it! Back to "The Messengers" (which I wasn't suppose to see due to religious purpose but went anyway) . . .

"The Messengers" starts off in a black and white scene with this woman and her son who seem extremely frighten. I think the reason for this scene is to confuse the viewer and to make them think of it as a true horror. As for the black and white picture, I suppose there is something that get to us when we hear those haunted music being play and there is no color other then black and white. I think the two colors alone works to make a feeling of fear and also to make viewer know that it was something like a flashback of some sort or something that had already happen.

This movie also involved a lot of crows. As horror lovers we all should know that whenever you see a crow or a black cat in a horror movie it's a sigh that something bad was going to happen. This movie uses extremely large crows. I guess the size of the crows makes a person fears them. I haven't seen a crow for ages now so I can't really say now big they really are, but in the movie they look above average size crows.

I liked how everything was happening but the ending . . . I did NOT like the ending much. To me the ending was stupid, it messed up the whole movie and not to mention made the "horror" movie "un-horror." Why? Well, you should go see for yourself why. The movie to me was very disappointing. Not one of the Pang's best work. It could have been better if the ending was different.