Carriers

Carriers

Credits
Title:	Carriers
Directed by:	Alex Pastor; David Pastor
Written by:	Alex Pastor; David Pastor
Produced by:	Anthony Bregman; Ray Angelic; Stefanie Azpiazu
Music by:	Peter Nashel
Cinematography:	Benoît Debie
Edited by:	Craig McKay
Production
Production:	Paramount Vantage Likely Story This Is That Productions
Distributors:	Paramount Pictures Hollywood Pictures
Released:	August 18th, 2009
Rating:	PG-13
Running time:	84 min.
Country:	USA
Language:	English
Gross:	$5,805,279
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Carriers is an American independent film of the psychological thriller genre with an emphasis on the global pandemic subgenre of horror. It was written and directed by Alex and David Pastor. It was presented through Paramount Vantage and produced by Likely Story in association with This Is That Productions. It was first screened in Germany at Fantasy Filmfest on August 18th, 2009. It opened to limited theatrical release in the United States and Canada on September 4th, 2009.

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Cast[]

Actor

Role

Danny

Brian

Bobby

Kate

Frank

Jodie

Preacher voice

Doctor

Survivalist

Survivalist

Survivalist

Tom

Rose

Passenger

Laura Merkin voice

Notes & Trivia[]

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The tagline to this film is "The rules are simple. You break them, you die..."
There are a total of fifteen credited cast members in this film. Nine of them are male cast members, leaving six female cast members. Thirteen cast members make on-screen appearances, with two cast members providing their voice only.
Principal filming on Carriers began on August 7th, 2006. The movie was filmed in parts of Santa Fe, New Mexico and Port Aransas, Texas.
The original German release of the film has a substantial amount of profanity, thus necessitating an R rating. The language was trimmed for the North American release to secure a PG-13 rating, which allows only overt use of the word "Fuck".
Carriers grossed $20,804 at the box office over its domestic opening. While not seemingly impressive, this is based on sales from one evening at only 100 theaters, averaging $208.00 per theater. It opened at #36 at the box office. It was beat by The Final Destination, which was entering its second week, and by Rob Zombie's Halloween II, which was also in its second week.
Carriers was released on Blu-ray by Hollywood Pictures on October 5th, 2010.
Actor Christopher Meloni, who plays Frank, is credited as Chris Meloni in this film.
Actor Tim D. Janis, who plays a survivalist, is credited as Tim Janis in this film.
Actors Brighid Fleming and Sequoyah Adams-Rice make uncredited appearances in this film as sick children.
Stefanie Azpiazu primarily works as an assistant to Anthony Bregman. This is her first film work where she is credited as an associate producer.
On the Internet Movie Database, Carriers has a Starmeter rating of 6.0 out of 10 based on more than 50,000 user votes. In the United States, the unweighted mean is 6.0, which makes up 30.6% of the total voting pool with 15,000 user votes.
On Rotten Tomatoes, Carriers has a Tomatometer rating of 64% based on 39 posted critic reviews. It has 28 positive reviews and 11 negative reviews. The film has an audience score of 39% based on more than 50,000 verified user ratings, averaging 3 out of 5.
On Letterboxd, this film has a weighted score of 2.70 out of 5 based on 14,290 user votes.
Shortly after the release of this film, actor Chris Pine would go on to star in J.J. Abrams reboot of Star Trek in the role of Captain James T. Kirk. Because of his increased notability as an actor, Pine received top billing on home video releases of Carriers.
Actor Christopher Meloni is best known for playing the role of police detective Elliot Stabler on Law & Order: SVU and Law & Order: Organized Crime. He is also known for playing vampire Roman Zimojic in season five of True Blood.
Actress Kiernan Shipka will go on to play Sabrina Spellman in The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, as well as Jamie Hughes in the 2023 film Totally Killer.

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