A good movie about what can happen when dangerous waste enters the water supply. Rob( Robert Foxworth), is a doctor who is asked to go to Maine over a land dispute. A dispute that involves the lumber mill; and the Indians.As soon as he is asked, Rob brings his wife Maggie(Talia Shire). Once there they meet the lumber yard owner Isley( Richard Dysart). Isley is very hardheaded; and hates the locals. He blames everything that has gone wrong on them, such as violence, murder; and disorderly conduct. He chalks it up as the typical Indian. The Indians don't like him because he is destroying their land by taking the lumber; and using it for his paper/lumber mill. The locals just want to preserve the beauty; and not destroy it. John Hawks(Armand Assante) and Ramona(Victoria Racimo) are the head villagers. The two begin to work closely with Rob and Maggie, once trust is gained. Hawks and Ramona tell Rob and Maggie horrible stories about deformities, still births, and deaths that have occurred.What has turned out to be a land dispute turns into an investigation on a rash of illnesses plaguing the village.When Maggie and Rob meet( Muri) Maggie's grandfather; he explains more about the area. He tells them that it is the Garden of Eden, where everything grows big. Maggie says she heard of another legend of Kadardin. After hearing this Rob is suspicious of the mill using chemicals in the water. They take a trip to the lumber mill; and talk to Isley. Once there Isley gives them a tour and shows them the different stages of making paper.Rob asks Isley if they use chemicals in the processes. Isley claims no harmful chemicals are used only chlorine. Isley tell him he can test the water if he wants. After leaving Rob still has doubts, especially after seeing a huge salmon, a tadpole 10x it's size, and a raccoon that suffered from rabies. Then when he notices the silvery dry liquid on Maggie's shoe it begins to make since. Rob now knows what is causing deformities. It is Mercury the people, animals, trees all have some Methyl Mercury poisoning in them.The abnormalities, in the animals, peoples behavior changing and the creature that stalks the woods. It is all a sign of Methyl mercury poisoning. The creature that is responsible for deaths and disappearances is a deformed creature due to the tainted water. Rob, Maggie, John, Ramona and Isley will eventually stop the creature. Along the way some discoveries are sad, and some will perish. The most troubling is that Isley knew what was going on and still used it due in part to it being cheap. Near the end Rob and Maggie do make it out alive, but the movie has a twist. As the plane leaves a new mutation appears; and a new cycle of terror begins.I gave this film a 7/10, because it had a great plot. I remember seeing this along with Friday the 13th back in Dayton, Oh. when I was 8. I was with my folks and it creeped me out. The two movies scared me because I did go camping every year. The ending of Prophecy was a big shocker, because I didn't expect it. If the monster at the end looked like the monster through out the movie this film would be a solid 8. It is somewhat dated, but still creepy. I agree Robert Foxworth does resemble Robert Reed when he sported that perm back in the day, LOL. For any horror/ suspense fan that misses great horror films, look no further than this thriller. It has it all from beginning to end.THX, Kris L. CocKayne

The idealistic Dr. Robert Verner (Robert Foxworth) is invited by his friend Vic to travel to the Maine with his wife Maggie (Talia Shire) working for the Environmental Protection Agency to prepare a report about the dispute between Indians "Opies" (meaning the original people) and the lumberjacks. Maggie is pregnant but she has not told to Robert since he does not want to have children. Robert and Maggie are welcomed by the director of the paper mill Bethel Isely (Richard Dysart) that drives them to their cabin in the woods. However they find an Indian blockage of the road and witness a conflict between the leader of the Opies John Hawks (Armand Assante) and Isely and his men.On the next morning, Robert goes fishing and he sees a huge salmon in the river. Then they meet with John Hawk and his wife Ramona (Victoria Racimo) and they tell that their people are ill and most of their babies are born with deformation. They also hear about the legendary Katahdin and visit the Garden of Eden of the Opies, where Robert finds weird plants with roots on the surface and a huge tadpole. Robert continues to investigate and discovers that the industry is using methyl mercury in the process that is causing the mutagen in the environment. "Prophecy" is a movie directed by John Frankenheimer with a lame ecological journey to the Garden of Eden of the original people. The politically correct idea of showing the pollution of a paper industry is one of the worst movies of this director. There is one specific scene that is ridiculous, when the boy that is camping is thrown to a tree. The conclusion is also terrible. My vote is four.Title (Brazil): Not Available

Saddles somewhere between Snowbeast (1977) with Clint Walker and Intruder Within (1981) with Chad Everett came this offering, tho those were TV movies and this one was in the theatres. Nevertheless, they were all movies in which half the film was over before something happened, then you were lucky if you got a good view of the monster (before anyone saw the zipper on the rubber costume, of course). Prophecy to me, for some reason, has stand out scenes (the sleeping bag and I think this is the movie where the old Indian didn't realize his cigarette was burning his hand, which truth be told, can happen to anyone who has excessive drug use, but the insinuation was he was mutated and oblivious to pain, due to the poisoning chemicals as well). Yet the title always made the movie lost in all the other titles of a similar vein; The Legacy, The Truancy, The Dichotomy, The Buoyancy, The Sweltering, The Relinquishing, The Compilation, etc. Yes, Legacy is a real movie (don't know about the others. I was just trying to make them up as I went along) Legacy and Prophecy were the big two to me, but I have always managed to remember Legacy. Prophecy, I forget the title, the stars. In the end, it was like watching Stephen King's It. It's a giant monster spider. So that's it. Prophecy was the mutated bear movie. Pretty much what it should have been called. More people may have seen this movie, but like me, they don't recall what it was called.

The number of oddball directorial touches in this lame-brained thriller is mind boggling. Health official Robert Foxworth and cellist wife Talia Shire move to the Maine woods to help mediate trouble between a paper mill and the local Indian tribe. Foxworth soon realizes that mutant animals are afoot thanks to mercury poisoning (courtesy of the mill, of course). The primary monster looks like a large, bloody sausage and sounds like a distressed sheep! An awful B-movie in the guise of an A-movie with the great John Frankenheimer at the helm. Frankenheimer, director of classics like THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, SEVEN DAYS IN MAY and SECONDS, really mis-steps here. Each scene ends and begins in a dissolve, there's no suspense to be had, the acting is atrocious and the music by Leonard Rosenman is so heavy handed, it's unbearable. Foxworth seems to be giving it his all and Shire, with very little dialog, seems lost. A dull eco-horror story that is laughable instead of scary.