So much average

Good concept, poorly executed.

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Swimming in a West Virginia river, six mature-looking teenagers tease (Jared's) younger brother Alex Hardee (as Jamie). They tell him the scary story of the legendary "Mothman" monster. During a strange water game, the cast pulls each other's legs down in the water. Somebody suffers a mishap and the swimmers, led by Jewel Staite (as Katharine Grant), decide to make the death seem like an accident. It already was an accident, and their repeated head-bashing only makes it look worse. However, nobody seems to notice. The kid's not dead, either; you can see him breathing. Maybe that's why the resuscitation attempt was so half-hearted...Ten years later, Ms. Staite returns to town. A Washington DC reporter, she has been assigned to write a story on the legendary "Mothman" monster of Point Pleasant...Staite meets the old gang after almost killing one of them in another accident. Quickly, supernatural stuff begins to happen. Probably, the monster is out to punish the cast for making an accidental drowning look like an accident. There is also a parallel incident involving blind resident Jerry Leggio (as Frank Waverly). The leading man is Connor Fox (as Derek Carpenter). The cast is attractive and the special effects are serviceable. Director Sheldon Wilson uses the red eye symbolism well and keeps the cameras steady. Unfortunately, as we get more of the Mothman and the murders, it looks sillier. The story never really makes any sense.*** Mothman (4/24/10) ~ Sheldon Wilson ~ Jewel Staite, Connor Fox, Matty Ferraro, Jerry Leggio

Where do I even begin, I should have wrote down all of my complaints, now I have to remember all of them. Netflix is the king of crappy horror films, you can watch them all and not have to pay for their suck-age. This film is awful, it's TV movie bad, oh wait.So it starts off with some dumb-ass kids doing what they do best. The guys are douche-bags and the women are.... just there. So then the "dudes" start bullying some guys brother and eventually kill him. This is where the similarities with other horror films come into play. The "dude" leader makes a plan to get their worthless redneck lives out of hot water. Lets make it an accident, so lets all cave the dead brothers head in, yeah that will look like an accident. And the funny part is, the dead guys older brother just goes along with it, wow I wish he was my brother, get piccolo. The girl with the weird eyes from firefly is now our main character.What follows is an atrocious waste of an hour and 20 minutes. The plot is inconsistent, the characters can't act. The cgi moth-man looks like crap. It lacks any suspense or mystery, or even scares. I could easily remake this into a much better film, because I or any true horror fan knows what to do and how to do it. There are plenty of stupid things that don't make sense. Like how did that guy with the shotgun survive when we can clearly hear him being ripped apart. Or how the hell did Katherine and that guy get out of the cage, they could just lift it up, so stupid. And why did the moth-man attack some random lady on the Farris wheel, I thought he only killed murderers. Technically the moth-man is the hero, he delivers justice when no one else cared to.Anyway, this film sucked. Even if you like bad movies, I don't recommend it.

Yes, the usual elements- an actress from a popular SciFi show teams up with a poorly rendered CGI monster, hilarity ensues.So ten years ago, some kids accidentally drown someone's little brother, and then bash in his head with a rock so it looks like an accident. (Hint- No one is going to think it was an "accident" if you bash his head in 7 times!) So ten years after getting out of the little hick town of Point Pleasant (which is known for nothing other than the "real life" Mothman sightings in the 1960's) Firefly's Jewel Staite returns to write a story about her home town. This allows the monster to come out of hibernation, even though it could have picked off the other six conspirators at any time.So what you have are a bunch of E-listers getting picked off while Jewell tries to figure out the problem. Most of it is just filler and you have those sudden breaks for commercials.I give this a little better than I give most of these because I like Jewell Staite so much. Too bad they couldn't give her something interesting to do.

Just finished watching SyFy's Mothman and got to say I wasn't expecting much. In all honesty I was only really interested because it had Jewel Straite in it! I was pleasantly surprised.There are numerous reasons when watching this to shake your head or role your eyes. The attempt at CPR in the first 10 minutes is an absolute joke, the first act is a knock off of 'I know what you did last summer'. And please tell me, if they were going to hide the way Jamie died and say he died diving into shallow water, why did they take turns hitting the body in the head with a rock?!!! Did he do it 6 times? But things really improve as the movie progresses. The mirror breaking when Katherine (Jewels character) looks into it and says 'You look as bad as I feel' shows real skill for the director in timing, I wasn't expecting it and it drew me into the movie. The characters are believable and likable (except for Jared who I thought was retarded) and the actors did a decent job, especially Jewel.There continues to be stupid elements and scenes such as naming the native American who became the Mothman Chief Cornstalk, and the shotgun that Jewel uses near the end when she shots the Mothman about 10 times without reloading, but they were forgivable. The CGI was very poor and is probably the biggest let down. If the production had put more money into the CGI, cleaned up the script the movie would have been good enough for theatrical release (I mean if Killers can get a theatrical release...Overall I give it a 7.