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This movie is really good and terrifying at times.

Supposedly no one wanted to believe this woman about this Moth looking creature in this town.

It's possibly true, but because science can't prove it, they make the lady...
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This movie is really good and terrifying at times.

Supposedly no one wanted to believe this woman about this Moth looking creature in this town.

It's possibly true, but because science can't prove it, they make the lady seem as if she's crazy.

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Posted jun 12, 2008 2:17 pm pt

• [+] Chicago Reader
  
  90
  This is the scariest movie I've ever seen.

  by Lisa Alspector | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  90
  One truly, madly, deeply satisfying creep-out.

  by Michael O'Sullivan | Read Full Review »
• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  83
  It's made with deftly unsettling genre flair.

  by Owen Gleiberman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Film Threat
  
  80
  An entertaining and chilling film that will make you question what you believe about myths and the supernatural.

  by Gareth Von Kallenbach | Read Full Review »
• [+] LA Weekly
  
  80
  Pellington's sharp, fastball compositions and nerve-splintering cutting style are of a piece with such intelligence, devilishly mixing shock with optimism.

  by F. X. Feeney | Read Full Review »
• [+] Newsweek
  
  80
  Using shadows and strikingly designed sounds, Pellington skillfully creates an atmosphere of otherworldly, invisible menace. Gere and Linney, both solid, dance around the edges of a romance.

  by David Ansen | Read Full Review »
• [+] Miami Herald
  
  75
  Better than its trailers indicate. Forget the seemingly silly Chapstick moment: Any film that sends a cold shock to your system is doing something right.

  by Connie Ogle | Read Full Review »
• [+] ReelViews
  
  75
  Like a time-travel movie, but without the time travel, The Mothman Prophecies delights in playing with cause-and-effect relationships.

  by James Berardinelli | Read Full Review »
• [+] USA Today
  
  75
  Compellingly watchable horror-spectacle.

  by Mike Clark | Read Full Review »
• [+] Charlotte Observer
  
  75
  By the end, an end that has a little too much melodrama to it, we can only shake our heads in wonder.

  by Lawrence Toppman | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Post
  
  63
  As the plot loses steam, director Mark Pellington (whose paranoid thriller "Arlington Road" was one of the worst movies of 1999) tends to rely on cheap tricks to maintain suspense, although the final catastrophe is very nicely done.

  by Jonathan Foreman | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  60
  The creepy set pieces are repetitive and the payoff is rather unsatisfying, even though the prophecies do eventually pan out.

  by Maitland McDonagh | Read Full Review »
• [+] Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  
  58
  It would have made for a cool fictional thriller, but The Mothman Prophecies' attempt to stick to true-life roots paralyzes it from being satisfying. It gives you the tingles all right, but they won't follow you out of the theater.

  by Ellen A. Kim | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
  50
  Director Mark Pellington hardly lets a moment pass without suggesting some bad vibes creeping onto the edges of the screen, but he's let down by Richard Hatem's script, based on John A. Keel's book, which delivers an ounce when it promised a gallon.

  by Robert Koehler | Read Full Review »
• [+] Portland Oregonian
  
  50
  Despite moments of atmospheric tension and a core of compelling mystery, the film feels remote, cold and, oddly, obvious.

  by Shawn Levy | Read Full Review »