Messenger of Death

Messenger of Death (1988) is a Charles Bronson crime thriller you can watch online on iFILM. Directed by J. Lee Thompson, it follows a Denver newspaperman digging into the slaughter of a Mormon family on a remote Colorado ranch.

Reporter Garret Smith expects a tragic headline and finds something far uglier. Women and children were gunned down at close range, and the killing looks deliberate, not random. As Smith chases the story, the trail leads into a fractured fundamentalist sect and a long, poisonous feud between two branches of the same family. Someone wants him to stop asking.

This was the fifth and final pairing of Bronson and Thompson, and it hands the star an unusual part: no vigilante pistol, just a stubborn newsman with a notebook and too many questions. A solid, slow-burn mystery for fans of grim late-1980s procedurals. Stream Messenger of Death online on iFILM.