Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

This is the worst thing ever made by anyone. It makes absolutely no sense, it has a tone that is all over the place, it confuses audience and irritates the viewers by relentlessly trying to create a sense of mood, which never leads to anything in terms of drama or plot. It's just mood. And then my mood turns to agitated, then angry. I couldn't watch this nonsense until the end.But here is what makes things a lot worse: it is a butchery of the actual story it was based on. How on earth do you take a true story about a monster that stalks people at night and turn it into a dull, low-energy moody pile of **** where the highlight of the story are these nonsensical phone calls? How do you turn this incredible true story into something so boring? Why was the story changed? It just boggles the mind. I think whoever wrote this is mentally ill.Zero stars for this. I hate this film with a passion. My blood pressure jumps when I just think of this monstrosity of a film.

This is a tough one. I personally found the story really intriguing and even though it did not go in the expected direction, I really enjoyed the story, which was original and smart and interesting.Still, the film lost me. The shorts were badly dine, the cuts strange, there were"special effects" (the colour changed from time to time), and that all made it impossible to watch.who would show an intriguing scene from the monster's perspective? i most certainly would not, and they should not have done it here, repeatedly.It was sad to see how a brilliant script can be turned into an unwatchable film.So even though I would love to give this one a 10 - a 4 seems fair to me. I really hope that they will do a remake, for I believe that this could be one of the big horror films, if it only were done differently.

I don't quite class it as horror, but more of a supernatural mystery thriller. Fascinating that this thing is based on real life reports. It gives it more of the creepy factor. That aside, it's just a really good nail-biter.It was very atmospheric. Great cinematography. I think the premise could have made for a great TV show. There's such a Twin Peakish, Lostish, feeling about it, tho not the weirdness. I like that people were reporting strange going ons and they were taken seriously.Richard Gere, Laura Linney, and Will Patton played their roles perfectly. I recommend for people that like Twin Peaks, Lost, and X-Files, and are looking for something with that similar type of mysterious feeling.

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.