The Messengers (2007) Poster

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Certification

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MPAA Rated PG-13 for mature thematic material, disturbing violence and terror
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • A slight sex reference is made when a husband tells his wife that he's been reading the farmer-sutra.

Violence & Gore

  • We see a frightened woman packing her suitcase and instructing her son to hide under a bed, and someone grabs and throws her hard against a wall (we see a blood smear on the wall)
  • A teenage girl is thrown over a stair railing, crashes on the floor below and then dragged into a basement (we hear her screaming and see her scratching the floor with her fingernails as she is dragged).
  • A man with a pitchfork stabs a man (offscreen) in the back, then strikes a woman hard in the face with a shovel (she falls to the ground), and raises the pitchfork over a teenage girl, but she kicks him away.
  • A man is attacked by several large crows that peck and claw at him.
  • Many large crows surround a farm, they circle in the air and attack a man on the ground, we hear pecking and yelling, and we see the man motionless with blood on his face and shirt.
  • A teenage boy is hit in the face with a shovel.

Profanity

  • 3 scatological terms, 2 anatomical terms, 8 mild obscenities, 3 religious exclamations.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • A teenage girl explains that she was drunk driving and got into an accident.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Some jump scares throughout.
  • There are several frightening scenes of ghosts attacking people. These ghosts are deformed with expressions of terror on their faces.
  • A scene that features an unseen person attacking and killing members of a family is intense and suspenseful.

Spoilers

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Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Is implied that a man killed his family, including his little son.

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