The Messenger (2015 horror film)
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| Directed by | David Blair |
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| Written by | Andrew Kirk |
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| Music by | Ian Livingstone |
| Cinematography | Ian Moss |
| Edited by | Ulrike Münch |
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| Distributed by | Metrodome Distribution |
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101 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
The Messenger is a 2015 British supernatural mystery horror film directed by David Blair, written by Andrew Kirk and starring Robert Sheehan and Lily Cole.
After his father's death, a suicide by hanging, young Jack is shown to gain the ability to see and talk with souls who have not "gone into the light." As Jack grows older, these souls ask him to become their 'Messenger' and relay their final words upon those still living, usually ending badly; more often than naught Jack's words, though honest, cause more misery and result in him getting kicked out funerals or beaten up. Jack states time and time again that he isn't doing it out of the good of his heart, but just in an effort to get rid of the souls haunting him, of which can't be done until the task is completed.
It's shown through countless, intermediate flashbacks that, as a child, Jack had been in and out of psychiatric clinics and hospitals all through adulthood, and as of present time, has been skimping out of his prescribed medication. This, along the fact that he constantly drinks, has his current soul companion, a high profile reporter by the name of Mark, lacking in assurance that his message to his recently widowed wife, Sarah, won't be genuinely received. Mark then disclosing that he was jumped on his way home by hooded figures and killed, staged to look like a successful suicide. He convinces Jack to reach out to his wife and tell her goodbye, while also revealing the fact that he knows about the baby growing inside her; this causes Sarah to become distressed, as the baby isn't Mark's. Jack, frustrated at how he's made it worse, is taken into custody in response to Sarah's call to the police when he first arrived.
Jack is taken to see a psychiatrist and is made to retell his story, eventually discovering thathis father hadn't killed himself because of his mother, but that he was projecting his own bitterness and hatred for her. Seconds after he accepts help, Mark returns and insists that Jack help Sarah, who was attempting suicide by overdose. Jack initially refused but relents when it becomes too much, eventually screaming hysterically for everyone to send help. He's sedated and taken away, though in the end, Jack's warnings stood true and the emergency responded saved Sarah's life. Though the psychiatrist refutes the idea that his powers are real, saying that it's his mind trying to cope with his father's violent death, both the constable and Jack's sister, Emma, begin to believe it. Afterwards Emma brings Jack a crystallized bug globe, a memento of their father, and Jack finally moves on from his father's death, crying and accepting help.
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