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Messages Deleted (2009)
- IMDb page: Messages Deleted (2009)
- Rate: 4.7/10 total 725 votes
- Genre: Mystery | Thriller
- Runtime: Germany:92 min (European Film Market)
- Filming Location: Riverview Hospital, Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
- Director: Rob Cowan
- Stars: Matthew Lillard, Deborah Kara Unger and Gina Holden
- Original Music By: Jim Guttridge
- Soundtrack: Un bel di vedremo
- Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
- Plot Keyword: Screenplay | Revenge | Screenwriter | Teacher | Murder
Writing Credits By:
- Larry Cohen (written by)
Known Trivia
Plot: A screenwriting teacher is forced to live out the plot of a screenplay idea he stole from a student, who now seeks revenge. Full summary » | »
Story: A quivering voice begs to screenwriter, Joel Brandt, to pick up the phone on a message from his answering machine. Thinking it a prank, Joel deletes the message. The caller is found dead. Another caller leaves Joel a message; there is another murder…then another…then another. The killer has Joel's attention, and Joel has the attention of the police. Now the prime suspect in a series of murders, Joel discovers this psychotic killer has targeted him for a reason found within his body of work. Will Joel be able to re-write his ending, or be forced to pay the ultimate price?Written by A. Voghell
FullCast & Crew
Produced By:
- Rob Cowan known as producer
- David Doerksen known as executive producer
- David Doerksen known as producer
- Jim O'Grady known as producer
FullCast & Crew:
- Matthew Lillard known as Joel Brandt
- Deborah Kara Unger known as Det. Lavery
- Gina Holden known as Millie
- Serge Houde known as Det. Breedlove
- Chiara Zanni known as Claire
- Michael Eklund known as Adam Brickles
- Xantha Radley known as Nurse Bev
- Ken Kramer known as Ben Brandt
- Brandon Jay McLaren known as Dude up Front
- Woody Jeffreys known as Patrick
- Ildiko Ferenczi known as Kathy
- Paul Lazenby known as Tractor
- Anna Galvin known as Lisa Kwan
- Biski Gugushe known as Tech – Shrink
- Parm Soor known as Limo Driver
- Ben Cotton known as Ken 'Sarge' Rivers
- David Orth known as Jeremy Potter
- Patrick Gilmore known as Kanter
- Courtney Vye known as Britt
- Brenda McDonald known as Screaming Woman
- Tom Braidwood known as Sailorman
- Ashleigh Gryzko known as Young Woman AD
- Mackenzie Gray known as Director
- Olivia Cheng known as Myrna
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Supporting Department
Makeup Department:- Cindy Barlow known as key makeup artist (as Cindy L. Barlow)
- Kathleen P. Campbell known as first assistant hair stylist
- Nikita Pennock known as first assistant makeup artist
- Pauline L. Tremblay known as key hair stylist
Art Department:
- Cecilia Babyaczuk known as set dresser
- Randal Bachand known as set dresser
- Tom Bonny known as on-set dresser
- Lorne Devine known as set dresser (as Lorne Joseph Devine)
- Peter Eglinton known as carpenter foreman
- Chris Ferreira known as art department production assistant
- Joel Fisher known as set dresser
- Corinna Johnston known as key scenic painter (as Corrine Johnson)
- Meggan Kenefick known as key painter
- Innis McCourty known as lead set dresser
- Lisa Mitchell known as on-set dresser
- Tasha Moth known as props assistant
- Derek Pineo known as assistant props master (as Derek J. Pineo)
- Guy Roland known as graphic artist
- Jerry Staar known as props assistant
- Nevin Swain known as property master
- Chris Thompson known as construction coordinator (as Chris L. Thompson)
- Chelsea Yusep known as assistant set decorator (as Chelsea)
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Company
Production Companies:
- Waterfront Pictures
- Main Street Productions (as Main Street Productions [BC] Inc.)
Other Companies:
- Edible Planet Catering caterers (as Edible Planet)
- Heenan Blaikie Lawyers legal counsel: for Waterfront Pictures Inc. (as Heenan Blaikie LLP)
- Technicolor Vancouver digital intermediate by (as Technicolor Creative Services, Vancouver)
- Post Modern Sound sound services provided by
- Alienware the producers wish to thank for their assistance
- Blackberry the producers wish to thank for their assistance (as BlackBerry)
- Pepsi the producers wish to thank for their assistance
- Final Draft the producers wish to thank for their assistance
- Domino's Pizza the producers wish to thank for their assistance (as Dominos)
- New York Fries the producers wish to thank for their assistance
- Hostess Frito Lay the producers wish to thank for their assistance (as Frito Lay)
- Hostess Frito Lay the producers wish to thank for their assistance (as Hostess)
- Mag Instruments the producers wish to thank for their assistance (as Maglite)
- Creative Screenwriting Magazine the producers wish to thank for their assistance
- Daily Variety the producers wish to thank for their assistance
- Apple the producers wish to thank for their assistance
- Media Capital Group interim financing by (as Media Capital MCG)
- Province of British Columbia Film Incentive BC with the participation of
- Government of Canada – Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit Program with the participation of
- Clairmont Camera cameras by (as Clairmont)
- Kodak Canada motion picture film (as Kodak)
- William F. White International acknowledgment
- DGC acknowledgment
- Screen Actors Guild (SAG) acknowledgment
- Union of B.C. Performers acknowledgment (as UBCP)
- Association of Canadian Film Craftspeople (ACFC) acknowledgment (as ACFC West)
- Writers Guild of Canada acknowledgment
- I.A.T.S.E. Local 669 acknowledgment
- Line 21 Media Services Ltd. closed captioning (uncredited)
- Line 21 Media Services Ltd. combined dialogue, continuity & spotting list (uncredited)
- NovaStar Digital ADR (uncredited)
- Ronnie Yeskel Casting casting (uncredited)
Distributors:
- Phoenicia Pictures (2009) (Lebanon) (all media) (Middle East)
- Playarte Pictures (2012) (Brazil) (DVD)
- Tanweer Films (2009) (India) (all media)
- Waterfront Entertainment (2008) (worldwide) (all media)
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Other Stuff
Visual Effects by:- Jay Harada known as opticals
- Ann-Marie Blommaert known as visual effects producer (uncredited)
- Jeremy Price known as visual effects artist (uncredited)
- Guy Roland known as special photography (uncredited)
- Matt Yeoman known as digital compositor (uncredited)
Release Date:
- Germany 6 February 2009 (European Film Market)
- UK 27 September 2010 (DVD premiere)
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Filmography links and data courtesy of The Internet Movie Database
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30 Mar 2012, 1:01 pm
Good to see Lillard in a horror movie again, shame it's this one. By nomeans a terrible movie, it's not great either. It starts with enoughpromise that you keep watching, hoping it will keep it up.
Unfortunately, it doesn't. It gets sillier and sillier until the easilyforeseeable ending. As the title says, it suffers from the 'spiralinginto mediocrity' syndrome, something many movies today seem to have. Awriter had an interesting opener and premise, but had NO idea how toconclude it on the same level.
I'd give it a 6, but only because i'm a fan of low budgetthrillers/horror movies. If you're not into the genre, you'd probablybe better off skipping this one…
30 Mar 2012, 1:01 pm
"Messages Deleted" is hyped by the fact that it is from the same writeras "Phone Booth" and "Cellular". Do not expect the same quality,because "Messages Deleted" has certainly it's flaws. The two leadingactors both had their greatest success in the mid 90's: Matthew Lillardin "Scream" (1996) and Deborah Kara Unger in "The Game" (1997). Bothwere in ten movies or so since than, but none of them were really bighits, except for the "Scooby Doo" movies (Lillard). In general, theacting is OK but not great, a little unconvincing at times. The storyis by-the-numbers at very far fetched. It gets more unbelievable by theminute and it is strange that the main character does not suspect thetwo friends around him for even a minute. Elements from "BasicInstinct" and "Secret Window" are put in the story but the result isfar from exciting or suspenseful. The surprise ending won't be a realsurprise for most people. Not an awfully bad movie, just very averageand somewhat unsatisfying. Could have been so much better..
30 Mar 2012, 1:01 pm
Joel Brandt (Matthew Lillard) is an efficient screen writing professorin the university but has never succeeded as a screenwriter. WhenBrandt receives a weird phone call asking for help, he believes that itis a prank of his best friend Adam Brickles (Michael Eklund) and hedeletes the message. When he is having a conversation with hisgirlfriend Claire (Chiara Zanni) on the sidewalk of a bar, the body ofthe caller falls off a building in front of them on the sidewalk.Brandt tells to the Detective Lavery (Deborah Kara Unger) and DetectiveBreedlove (Serge Houde) that are in charge of the investigation aboutthe call that he had received and he becomes a suspect.
When he receives another mysterious call from a woman also calling forhelp in his answering machine, he goes to the location and finds thatshe is dead. Brandt becomes the prime-suspect of Detectives Lavery andBreedlove when they find that the message was deleted from hisanswering machine. When Brandt discovers that the killer is followingthe only screenplay that he had sold to the cinema industry, "SenselessKilling", he tries to guess the next move of the serial-killer.
"Messages Deleted" is a senseless, annoying and absurd thriller about ascreenwriter that is informed about murders that are following ascreenplay that he had written stolen the idea from another screenplay.
Joel Brandt is irritating, hysterical, clumsy and imbecile, and takesall the possible wrong attitudes along the story. The plot is based ondeleted messages in times when it is possible to have traceability ofphone calls, technical means to retrieve a deleted message andsurveillance (bugging) a phone number. The stupid open conclusion isnever clear but the worst is the use of the word "cliché" along thestory. The writer had the intention of making a cult-movie butunfortunately he has totally failed. My vote is one (awful).
Title (Brazil): "Mensagens Deletadas" ("Deleted Messages")
30 Mar 2012, 1:01 pm
I had very low expectations going into this movie. It has absolutely nomarketing or buzz factor (hence I am the first to review it on IMDb)and Matthew Lillard seems to be beyond his prime. Although the plotseemed very original and intriguing. After watching the film, I mustadmit I am hungry for more. The ideas are unique and the the story isbeyond catchy. Without giving away spoilers, the story reminded me oflooking at a photograph within a photograph. At first glance it seemstoo abstract to be realistic but once you uncover the idea behind ityou are left memorized. Lillard gave a stunning performance beyond whatI thought he was capable of. It's not just a slasher horror, yet anintense mystery thriller that could have twisted in any way, shape orform towards the end. After everything unraveled I found myself wantingto watch it again to full grasp the plot in a new light. Here we have aprime example of true film screen magic where it does not take ahundred plus million dollar budget or an A-list actor/actress in orderto entertain. I give this movie a strong recommendation for anyone whoappreciates it's respected genre and the art of film in general.
30 Mar 2012, 1:01 pm
Intriguing premise that takes a while to introduce itself to theviewer, once it does you find yourself interested to the point ofstaying in the room, however this soon changes as you begin to unravelthe plot roughly 50 minutes before any of the characters become evenclose. It is another one of those 'thrillers' that does not thrill, theones where the characters make inhuman, illogical decisions that areridiculous to the point of shouting at the screen. On the moretechnical side, I found the camera angles annoying and distractingduring several scenes at the beginning (as if the camera man is playingaround with techniques they've only just picked up), it involves lotsof people walking through the shot in front of characters in dialogueand bizarre instruments that automatically stop producing sound whennot in shot. In summary this movie is infuriating with few redeemingfeatures. It tries to be clever but fails miserably. Not worthwatching.
30 Mar 2012, 1:01 pm
If the movie was released sometime between the moment everyone have acellphone in the 90's and the beginning of police forensics like in the"CSI" TV Series, I would have certainly enjoy this movie.
Movie started good, until the first murder. Detectives are there, butthere's no forensics work at all to find out clues about the suspects,no fingerprints verification, no phone records verification, justsuspicions and coincidence that Joel appeared on the 2nd crime scene,and listening to the message on Claire's answering machine: "That's ourguy! Release the suspect!"
I mean, c'mon, he's a professor at University, he should know betterabout all the common errors which leads to getting caught, but he justdo everything for evidence to lead to him, despite above mentionedsloppy detective work.
Also, after the 2nd murder, why didn't he activate the function toforward all his calls to his cellphone? When a stranger is in a hurryto go to the airport but reluctantly give you a half-way lift for 100$,WHY would you trust that person to wait for you, regardless how muchyou give him?
Something that ticked me off, back at Millie's place, it is mentionedthe original script was reflecting reality, and page 76, it is what'shappening now. But Joel wasn't a bit curious to read further in orderto figure out what's gonna happen next and find ways to avoideverything bad in the script.
Avoid this movie, unless you're bored and have nothing else to watchbut a light crime movie like this one. I originally give it a 1 out of10, but I'll give a 2 instead for Gina Holden and Chiara Zanni.
30 Mar 2012, 1:01 pm
What do you get if you cross several average actors,a 'witty'self-aware, self deprecating script and a bag full ofclichés,acknowledged as being clichés by the script,making them superclichés?
Robbed of an hour and a half,that's what.
I've seen some bad films and often you can take the good from them andbe pretty content.This film in no way offers anything even remotelyclose to redemption…..actually that's not entirely fair,it does.Itends.
This movie should be used in a court of law to substantiate andcomplete the argument for euthanasia.
Sticking to the old adage about ending positively I did take somethingfrom this film……I learnt never to go anywhere near any futureproject with anyones name attached from these credits.
One star is the minimum I'm able to give this,but it's a little likesaying that Hitler was just a bit naughty.