A reporter is drawn to a small West Virginia town to investigate a series of strange events, including psychic visions and the appearance of bizarre entities.A reporter is drawn to a small West Virginia town to investigate a series of strange events, including psychic visions and the appearance of bizarre entities.A reporter is drawn to a small West Virginia town to investigate a series of strange events, including psychic visions and the appearance of bizarre entities.
- Awards
- 1 win & 2 nominations
Zachary Mott
- Otto
- (as Billy Mott)
- Director
- Writers
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- TriviaThis movie is based on actual events that occurred between November 1966 and December 1967 in Point Pleasant, West Virginia.
- GoofsWhen John Klein rips the telephone from the wall and throws it, we hear the sound of a telephone with a bell hitting the floor, yet the phone is a modern digital cordless phone.
- Quotes
John Klein: I think we can assume that these entities are more advanced than us. Why don't they just come right out and tell us what's on their minds?
Alexander Leek: You're more advanced than a cockroach, have you ever tried explaining yourself to one of them?
- Crazy creditsSoundtrack listing, song Half Light, which plays over the credits. The movie credits for this song say, "Additional Lyrics by Indrid Cold," the Mothman character of the movie. Toward the end of the song, there is a muffled, whispering voice, similar to one of the prophetic voice heard at various times in the movie. The voice continues just past the end of the song and to the end of the credits, but the words are indiscernible.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Search for the Mothman (2002)
Featured review
THIS is cinema !!!
One common thread seemingly shared by all those who did not like this movie, aside from the fact their brains never developed beyond puberty, is their total incapacity to verbalise WHY they didn't like it or what aspects they believed should have been bettered, not to mention, HOW they personally would have gone about this reformation themselves? It is of little consequence I suppose - cerebral implosion has always interested me as a physiological condition. That this great film has inspired a universal rating of only 6.6 bears testament to my belief that today's viewing audience are, for the most part cretins - or getting there! I realise also that these comments most likely condemn this review never to be published, since the IMDb frowns heavily (and funnily enough I agree with this policy) on the slating of other IMDb reviewers. This particular film however incites my anger towards these negative and terminally limited people, like no other I can recall!
Together with RED CORNER, AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN, PRETTY WOMAN and PRIMAL FEAR (not necessarily in that order), THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES is up there with Gere's best work. It's up there with ANYONE'S best work! In essence a brilliant movie length episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE, it was always going to be a failure to those expecting MOTH MAN to be leaping out of the screen with slavering maw (the cretins better look that one up!), rancid breath and flesh-stripping claws. This is no "action" movie as one cranially displaced reviewer complained. It is a film that you must work WITH, listen TO and build upon! Mark Pellington directed his guts out with this one and he has produced an unequivocal winner, vastly superior in my view to even ARLINGTON ROAD which though interesting was a bit "iffy" towards the conclusion I thought.
The briefest of plot outlines follows. Gere is a reporter for the Washington Post. He is very much in love with his wife. Following an auto run-in, she is hospitalised and diagnosed with a rare form of brain tumor. Before she dies she leaves several extremely strange sketches of "something" on a notepad. Gere later finds himself on a road to Pleasant County having no idea how he got there (and wishing to divulge nothing further) comes across many uniquely odd and supernatural turns. He is convinced some terrible tragedy will strike the township. Does it? Is he one step short of a psycho ward? Is this the greatest suspense movie of all time? Maybe you had better watch it!
Will Patton gives an absolutely riveting support performance but there again - EVERYONE here is just about out of their tree. Cinematography, script, production values are ALL just superb. Despite what others may say, there is not one boring moment in this film if you have ANY awareness at all! The conclusion (and let's forget the minority who think they "saw it coming" - THEY DIDN'T) is so well done. both emotionally and effect wise, it lifts the film so far above others of its ilk its not funny! Blows THE SIXTH SENSE, THE OTHERS etc out of the water.
If you're reading this Richard, thanks for a superb and thoughtful performance, for me personally, it was the film of the decade!
Together with RED CORNER, AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN, PRETTY WOMAN and PRIMAL FEAR (not necessarily in that order), THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES is up there with Gere's best work. It's up there with ANYONE'S best work! In essence a brilliant movie length episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE, it was always going to be a failure to those expecting MOTH MAN to be leaping out of the screen with slavering maw (the cretins better look that one up!), rancid breath and flesh-stripping claws. This is no "action" movie as one cranially displaced reviewer complained. It is a film that you must work WITH, listen TO and build upon! Mark Pellington directed his guts out with this one and he has produced an unequivocal winner, vastly superior in my view to even ARLINGTON ROAD which though interesting was a bit "iffy" towards the conclusion I thought.
The briefest of plot outlines follows. Gere is a reporter for the Washington Post. He is very much in love with his wife. Following an auto run-in, she is hospitalised and diagnosed with a rare form of brain tumor. Before she dies she leaves several extremely strange sketches of "something" on a notepad. Gere later finds himself on a road to Pleasant County having no idea how he got there (and wishing to divulge nothing further) comes across many uniquely odd and supernatural turns. He is convinced some terrible tragedy will strike the township. Does it? Is he one step short of a psycho ward? Is this the greatest suspense movie of all time? Maybe you had better watch it!
Will Patton gives an absolutely riveting support performance but there again - EVERYONE here is just about out of their tree. Cinematography, script, production values are ALL just superb. Despite what others may say, there is not one boring moment in this film if you have ANY awareness at all! The conclusion (and let's forget the minority who think they "saw it coming" - THEY DIDN'T) is so well done. both emotionally and effect wise, it lifts the film so far above others of its ilk its not funny! Blows THE SIXTH SENSE, THE OTHERS etc out of the water.
If you're reading this Richard, thanks for a superb and thoughtful performance, for me personally, it was the film of the decade!
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- uds3
- May 31, 2002
Details
Box office
- Budget
- $32,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $35,746,370
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $11,208,851
- Jan 27, 2002
- Gross worldwide
- $55,305,279
- Runtime1 hour 59 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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