As I said I'm familiarized with the Mothman lore, as well as the insanely underrated Mothman Prophecies film from 2002. Going into this I was extremely weary because of the low amount of ratings/reviews and the fact it was a SyFy channel movie. I still couldn't resist delving into something to do with Mothman even with a 3.4/10 rating. The film is absolutely ridiculous in so many different ways, but it's nowhere near a 3/10 rating.
While it completely goes in a different ludicrous direction than the greatly eerie 2002 film and many of the eyewitness accounts over the years, they give it enough of a backstory to keep you somewhat intrigued. A main problem I did have with it is that the Prophetic part of the Mothman is completely non existent and they replace it with a revenge slasher type cliche. Maybe that was to get a cheap appeal factor for their target audience but it came off extremely illogical. There are times it feels like a full blown slasher/horror and the eeriness/atmosphere isn't around.
What I did enjoy though were a couple of the main characters especially the main protagonist played by the incredibly gorgeous Jewel Staite, and the old blind man that had a history with this version of Mothman. They were able to give some interesting moments to their cliche written characters. Otherwise the acting was truly dreadful.
I'll also mention what is probably the most divisive thing about this film, which was the SyFy caliber CGI for the Mothman...The amount of absolutely hilariously bad/yet sometimes ambitious concepts they attempted to give a visual to the infamous creature was almost perplexing. Some ideas were actually relatively cool but some looked just plain laughable. I do admire they tried to give viewers something we could see, but the cgi was so inferior most couldn't take it seriously I'd imagine.
Overall this is basically a slasher revenge take on the Mothman with some very low quality moments. The entertainment factor is still remaining and that somehow salvaged it for me from being a complete loss. It can be enjoyable but at the same time incredibly bad.
While it completely goes in a different ludicrous direction than the greatly eerie 2002 film and many of the eyewitness accounts over the years, they give it enough of a backstory to keep you somewhat intrigued. A main problem I did have with it is that the Prophetic part of the Mothman is completely non existent and they replace it with a revenge slasher type cliche. Maybe that was to get a cheap appeal factor for their target audience but it came off extremely illogical. There are times it feels like a full blown slasher/horror and the eeriness/atmosphere isn't around.
What I did enjoy though were a couple of the main characters especially the main protagonist played by the incredibly gorgeous Jewel Staite, and the old blind man that had a history with this version of Mothman. They were able to give some interesting moments to their cliche written characters. Otherwise the acting was truly dreadful.
I'll also mention what is probably the most divisive thing about this film, which was the SyFy caliber CGI for the Mothman...The amount of absolutely hilariously bad/yet sometimes ambitious concepts they attempted to give a visual to the infamous creature was almost perplexing. Some ideas were actually relatively cool but some looked just plain laughable. I do admire they tried to give viewers something we could see, but the cgi was so inferior most couldn't take it seriously I'd imagine.
Overall this is basically a slasher revenge take on the Mothman with some very low quality moments. The entertainment factor is still remaining and that somehow salvaged it for me from being a complete loss. It can be enjoyable but at the same time incredibly bad.