I've only written a couple of reviews in the 8 or so years I've been using IMDb. So, to me it means something. It also shows that it takes quite an event to make me want to write a review.One of my biggest pet peeves is lying. I don't like it when people do it to me; and it's even worse for some reason, when a filmmaker uses an event or book title to get me to see a movie. That's what happened here. The director thought it was a good idea to take events that happened in the 60's, and make them happen in the 2000's. Why? Who knows? Personally, I think it's laziness. But I can overlook that. The time period in which things happen means next to nothing to me. The changing of facts, including the text at the very end of the film "no definitive cause was ever found for..." - seriously? - like it somehow adds any weight to your movie to lie about an event that anyone can easily look up? Check out the article "silver bridge collapse" on Wikipedia. It's right there in the first couple of sentences. Think about that lie, for a moment. It's a flat-out lie about something that you can easily fact-check. The Mothman Prophesies was a book written by someone who was there, as it was happening in 1968-9. Regardless if the author's words were 100% gospel, there weren't people alive at the time raising a ruckus about how he misquoted them or misrepresented events. Which means for the most part, he was telling it like it was. The movie is almost the complete opposite. Other than the names of people and locations, there is almost nothing brought over from the book to the movie.So, is it a good movie? Kind of. But not really. Maybe if you're a 12 year old who will think everything is true when the movie says "based on actual events". But for me, just as a suspense-thriller or whatever you want to call it, this one was just OK. The plot was formulaic, the action scenes were flash-chaos-shakycam, and there were some stupid continuity errors like a modern phone with bell ringer, or characters wearing gloves and not wearing gloves in the same scene. Just sloppy. Which in the end makes one think - were there lawyers figuring out how much from the book they would have to include, to be able to give the movie the same name? Just meh. Glad I didn't pay to go see it.

1962 Paranormal researchers-writers; Ivan T. Sanderson, Gray Barker, James W. Mosley, John Keel claim: St Albans Charleston West Virginia 1960 played host to resident child (Richard) the Indian-Nation would term Shadow Eyes. He went onto become one of the most prominent child em-path's ever studied by Doctors within Parapsychology Science. 1967 the boy was one of the first to under under go conversion Electric Current Therapy. The child turned paranormal science upon its ear, sending many Doctors back to the drawing board." Alex Tanous, one of many who tested the child soon became entranced, and continued his studies on the child. To read more on this story, or too receive a copy of the 1950's Original Mothman death-list and the entire story concerning the Mothman Shadow Eyes Connection. Feel free to email. [email protected] Thank you.

Most people have probably never heard of the Mothman, which will make "The Mothman Prophecies" eerier. The Mothman was a figure that appeared to some people in West Virginia in the 1960s and predicted disasters. John Keel wrote a book about the sightings.The movie is a fictionalized account, with Richard Gere as a newspaper columnist investigating the sightings. Some of the scenes came across as silly, but I liked the phone calls, and especially the climax. Laura Linney once again proves herself a fine actress, playing a cop helping Gere's character investigate. A downside is that Alan Bates doesn't get enough screen time. As for the Mothman himself, we might never know what exactly he was or where he came from.No, it's not the best thriller. Mark Pellington had a better entry in this genre with "Arlington Road". But it's worth seeing. I now hope to read Keel's book. Most importantly, the climax should be a call to repair our infrastructure.

There is only one movie I can honestly give a 10 out of 10 for the simple reason there will never be any other movie like it, no matter how they try to; and that movie is 2001 - A Space Odissey.There are however some well deserved 9's, and "The Mothman Prophecies" is one of them (IMHO).Here are my reasons for my score:The acting is top notch. - The Sound Track is as eerie as the movie it self (Kudos to Tomandandy) - The story {though loosely based on a book covering "real events") is gripping and well developed. - The photography is quite excellent and makes full use of darkness and "half-light". - The dialogs are meaningful and some of them will stick in your head. - Nothing in this movie happens without a reason and everything is interconnected either through the main characters and/or surroundings; which makes the whole movie a tight universe of moving parts. - The actors are perfect for their roles. - It's a rather interesting mix of Film-Noir, Suspense and Thriller (and this is achieved masterfully). But I would not consider it as a horror movie. Not per se at least. I must have watched this Gem of a movie at least some 20 times. I took quite a joy renting it over and over again in order to revisit it's eeriness and have a go at the Sound Track, until I bought a copy. The only other movie I ever did that with was "Jacob's Ladder", also a Masterpiece. They are two different "beasts", but so worth it.My most sincere congratulations to all the people involved in the making of this movie.