
John Klein (Richard Gere) is involved in a car accident with his wife, but while he is unharmed, his wife mentions a moth-shaped creature appearing. After her death, John begins to investigate the secrets behind this mentioned Mothman. It takes him to the small town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, where he discovers a connection with the same problem. Here he meets Connie Mills (Laura Linney), while he continues to unravel the mystery of what the Mothman really is.... (Full plot summary below)
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John Klein (Richard Gere) is involved in a car accident with his wife, but while he is unharmed, his wife mentions a moth-shaped creature appearing. After her death, John begins to investigate the secrets behind this mentioned Mothman. It takes him to the small town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, where he discovers a connection with the same problem. Here he meets Connie Mills (Laura Linney), while he continues to unravel the mystery of what the Mothman really is.
Leave your thoughts about The Mothman Prophecies.
| Washington PostMichael O'SullivanOne truly, madly, deeply satisfying creep-out. |
| Film BlatherEugene NovikovImpeccably constructed and almost impossibly stylized |
| Kalamazoo GazetteJames Sanfordkeeps us unsettled and intrigued through suggestion and surprise instead of relying on gruesome images or cheap shock effects. |
| The Film YapNick RogersThe stylish bleakness keeps you off-balance with unreliable narration and an unforgettable conclusion. The more it accelerates rant-and-rave paranoia, the greater it gets - a campfire-ready chiller whose subconscious embers glow long after it's over. |
| Boulder WeeklyThomas DelapaFew recent movies have such portentous and eerie nocturnal scenes ...Don't let this one fly away-it's a real wing-dinger. |
| AboutFilm.comCarlo CavagnaThe climactic events are so well realized that you may forget all about the original conflict, just like the movie does |
| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekA total muddle which will prove as frustrating to audiences as 'Vanilla Sky'...paradoxically, both formulaic and incoherent. |
| Chicago ReaderLisa AlspectorThis is the scariest movie I've ever seen. |
| New York ObserverRex ReedEven with your eyebrows raised and your tongue planted firmly in cheek, the whole thing gets under your skin in ways that creep you out. |
| Flick FilosopherMaryAnn JohansonGere lets his jutting square-jawness and blinking dumbfoundment stand in for Klein's supposed grief-stricken anguish and In Search Of... befuddlement. |