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Prophecy (1979)
Rate:
4
Viewed:
11/04, 7/09
7/09:
A lot of people think of The Prophecy as the horror movie with Christopher Walken,
but there was an environmental picture from the 70's with Armand Asante about an ursine monster that's bred through
mutated genes because of the toxic waste dump.
The last time I saw Prophecy, I remember it as a tale of two halves. My opinion still holds today. The first
is better because of the investigation which should've been expanded to give the film an interesting angle to
operate with.
What worked is the simultaneous conflicts: the mistreatment of the American Indians, the methylmercury poisoning case, the
effect it had on the doctor's wife (I don't think the fetus will be affected due to minimal fish consumption while
others ate fish and animals for a long time), and the mutants spawned by the environmental disaster.
At this point, Prophecy was on its way to be better than the usual sci-fi crap as seen from the 50's and on SyFy.
However, the momentum dissipates as soon as the monster takes over. From there on, the film falls apart,
and the weak, contrived, and unsatisfactory ending is one of the worst I've seen.
All in all, Prophecy had a lot of promise to begin with, but it's been turned into junk.