Synopsis
Reporter John Klein is plunged into a world of impossible terror and unthinkable chaos when fate draws him to a sleepy West Virginia town whose residents are being visited by a great winged shape that sows hideous nightmares and fevered visions.
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Cast
- Richard GereJohn Klein
- Laura LinneyConnie Mills
- Will PattonGordon Smallwood
- Debra MessingMary Klein
- David EigenbergEd Fleischman
- Alan BatesAlexander Leek
- Lucinda JenneyDenise Smallwood
- Nesbitt BlaisdellChief Josh Jarrett
- Bill LaingIndrid Cold
- Dan CallahanC.J.
Recommendations
- 90
Chicago Reader
This is the scariest movie I've ever seen. - 90
Washington Post
One truly, madly, deeply satisfying creep-out. - 80
Film Threat
An entertaining and chilling film that will make you question what you believe about myths and the supernatural. - 75
USA Today
Compellingly watchable horror-spectacle. - 63
New York Post
As the plot loses steam, director Mark Pellington (whose paranoid thriller "Arlington Road" was one of the worst movies of 1999) tends to rely on cheap tricks to maintain suspense, although the final catastrophe is very nicely done. - 60
TV Guide Magazine
The creepy set pieces are repetitive and the payoff is rather unsatisfying, even though the prophecies do eventually pan out. - 58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
It would have made for a cool fictional thriller, but The Mothman Prophecies' attempt to stick to true-life roots paralyzes it from being satisfying. It gives you the tingles all right, but they won't follow you out of the theater. - 50
Portland Oregonian
Despite moments of atmospheric tension and a core of compelling mystery, the film feels remote, cold and, oddly, obvious.
