Wednesday 19 October 2011

The Mothman Prophecies

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Year:2002
Country of origin:USA
Director:Mark Pellington
Genre:Creepy paranormal horror
Starring:Richard Gere, David Eigenberg, Bob Tracey
Rating:4/5
IMDB link:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265349/
Tagline:What do you see?
Favourite line:"Near as I can tell, it's an electrical impulse. But whatever it is, it's not coming from human vocal chords."

Richard 'The Gerbil Botherer' Gere plays a succesful journalist who loses his wife to a rare form of cancer. On her deathbed, she draws images of a strange winged demon, mystifying Gere.
Flash forward two years, and Gere finds himself in a town called Point Pleasant, with no memory of how he got there and, stranger still, the realisation that he couldn't physically have made the journey in the time available between the present time and his last memory.
As it turns out, lots of the townsfolk have been seeing strange apparitions, similar in nature to the drawings of his late wife.
What's the connection?
And why has he been drawn to this sleepy town in the middle of nowhere?

Atmospheric and claustrophobic, this borrows heavily from The X Files, both in terms of tone and content.
It's tense throughout, pervading a good sense of menace, and manages to be enigmatic as well as creepy.
It drags a little at times, which is why it doesn't get top marks, but this is still a very good chiller.

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