Laura Linney as Connie
Debra Messing as Mary Klein
Will Patton as Gordon Smallwood
David Eigenberg as Ed
Director is Mark Pellington
Review Date is June 19, 2002
Thriller/Horror/Suspense-John Klein is a well-respected journalist who is looking for a house with his half-his-age wife Mary. The two are obviously in love. After, however, buying a huge house, they get into a car accident and Mary dies. John is then on his way to interview a governor, but gets "lost" along the way and ends up in little Point Pleasent, West Virginia. He is greeted by a shotgun-wielding man named Gordon Smallwood, who claims that he knocked on his door the last three nights. He then calls cop Connie to come and help him with John. Connie says that these strange happenings have been happening all over the small town. Now John must discover these "sightings" while slowly decending into madness.
7/10-A ghost story that doesn't know the meaning of the word "ending". I know that many horror movies don't have clear endings, but I still would have appreciated it if Mark put in a real solution to the Mothman. The creeps were fantastic, but Mark tried to copy an M. Night Shamaylan (Sixth Sense) by having red and glass signify the Mothman (both which have been used in the Sixth Sense and Unbreakable). This was my first Gere movie, and I hope it's my last. Richard Gere was such a bad actor. Maybe he's more suited to romantic comedies. On a positive note, it kept you in rapt attention for two hours and never let go.
Rated PG-13 for scares and language.