The Mothman Prophecies
2002
***
Director: Mark Pellington
Cast: Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Will Patton, Debra Messing, Alan Bates, Lucinda Jenney, David Eigenberg, Bob Tracey
A Washington Post reporter is drawn into a small town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia by a series of supernatural events, similar to those that preceded his wife's death. This slow-burning mystery features a no-nonsense protagonist, who is less intrigued by what is happening and more intrigued by why it's happening. This thriller starts in a gripping manner, but once the sightings become frequent and the Mothman begins to make regular phone calls, the story starts to lose its mystique and get a bit silly. To make matters worse, the film claims to be based on real events in the late 1960s. Richard Hatem scripted from John Keel's 1975 book.
