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This movie is an incoherent mess. After having high hopes from reading about the actual incidents at Point Pleasant in the 60s, I thought that this movie might be good. Unfortunately, anything that might pull the movie out of the boredom- inducing coma that it wallows in for most of its running time is only described by the actors. There are no sightings of Mothman. The film strays from the facts. The non-existant score is made up of one night. There is no variation in the tone of the movie. It maintains the same morbid, depressing, and grey tone throughout.

I would not recommend this movie.

There are many plot points throughout this film that would make great horror or suspense movies in themselves. The gold-digging wife who plans to change the will of her mother-in-law. The guilt a family feels about the death of their daughter. A haunted Irish castle. An axe murderer loose at a family gathering where a will is being discussed. The trusted family doctor who is, in fact, a puppetmaster, making the family hold onto a tragic past. Unfortunately, none of these intriguing plot points are milked to their fullest advantage. Literally, Coppola has five movies in one...but none of them are finished. When John dies and Louise covers up the death, that's the last we hear about it. This could have been used later. Etc. etc. Instead, we get a mish mash of plot points with bad acting and bad dialogue that are important but never revisited and used to weave a cohesive plot.