This 2002 supernatural thriller is based on the true events
of a 1967 disaster that struck a small town in West Virginia. It wasn’t a film I’d ever
heard of and had read nothing of it before seeing it. The DVD was leant to me
by a friend at work. I have serious problems with the idea, plot, direction and
acting but my enjoyment increased the longer I stuck with it. Despite finding
little pleasure for most of the two hours, by the end I was satisfied that I’d
seen a fairly gripping and occasionally interesting thriller.
Two years after his wife’s death, newspaper columnist John
Klein (Richard Gere) is driving south from Washington
DC to Richmond,
Virginia when his car breaks
down. To his shock he discovers that he has broken down far west of where he
thought he was and is in fact on the West Virginia
– Ohio border, in the small town of Mount Pleasant. The town
is home to some unexplained apparitions and premonitions which mirror those
that plagued his wife in the hours before her death. People even begin drawing
pictures that look like her own and when the predictions begin to come true,
Klein attempts to track down the strange Mothman who is spotted all over town.
