Prophecy (1979) - Official Trailer

"Realistic, dramatically acted, and supported with graphic violence, Prophecy is not easily forgotten – [it] stands towering amidst the sub-genre from which it spawned." – Bloody Disgusting

Robert Foxworth (Damien: Omen II) and Talia Shire (Rocky, The Godfather) star as a doctor and his wife who travel to Maine to research the impact of the lumber industry on the local environment. They begin to investigate a succession of mysterious and terrifying events: ecological freaks of nature and a series of bizarre and grisly human deaths. Something unimaginably horrible waits in the woods ... something unwittingly created by man, that will become an uncontrollable, merciless machine of destruction. Veteran director John Frankenheimer (The Island Of Dr. Moreau) presents "a gritty, violent, and deadly film that [packs] a death punch with very vivid, nightmarish special effects ..." (Bloody Disgusting).

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[LH]

I was about 5 years old when I saw this trailer.... it scared the ever living hell out of me.

[AndreNitroX]

A trailer that is compelling, has an awesome narrator, great music. This is a rare example of an awesome trailer that doesn’t give away the entire movie and still makes you want to watch it!

[davidkurtz]

I think this has to be one of the best trailers I've seen, it gives nothing away and is still interesting and grabs your attention.
Most studios nowadays can learn a thing or two from this trailer.

[austinaquino]

Finally, a trailer that doesn't reveal any scenes that would have spoiled the film.

[JENDALL]

I remember all these horror movies of the 70's almost always sold a paperback novel to go with it and they were usually sold in the checkout line at the Supermarket, always with the tag line, "Now a Major Motion PIcture!" I was too young to see these movies, so I would read the novels, my parent's wouldn't buy the novel for me at the Supermarket, but I would get them to buy it for me through the school book orders we would have every few months. I just would tell them, we are having a book order again at school and I need money. The novels were cool and even had a few pictures in the middle of the book from the movie. Funny, to think they sold horror movie novels to elementary school children and I would do book reports on them, which was the reason, we would have the book order sales in the first place. Nobody seemed cared in those days, that you were doing a book report on a gruesome monster slasher horror flick.

[jackepong]

Theres some irony in Katahdin being perceived as the spirit of the forest which across both native americans and other cultures is symbolized by The Bear. And the monster is a deformed version of it.

Its a physical allegory of a symbol of the forest deformed by man in his conquest of development.

The film had a lot of potential and deserves a remake, especially when the novel made the monster much more scary but you also more gruesome.

[sheilawhite]

I went to the cinema with a friend from work to see this movie in 1979 scary it was and the ending was great

[brittanyrothe]

I saw this movie when i was a kid at the Wildey Theater. I was so terrified! It was the scariest movie that i had ever seen.

[allirogorilla]

One of my favorite trailers of all time. Right up there with the teaser for An American Werewolf in London and nightmare on Elm street part 3 (dream warriors.)

[jjwolff]

Watched it and read the book as a kid. I'd love to see a good remake.

[gallery]

Would like to know who narrated this trailer. Such an effective performance.

[asaking]

The trailer was scarier than the actual movie.

[zali]

Sadly the creature itself never lived up to the trailer's hype, being just a 7 foot tall mutant bear and was the weakest part of an otherwise quite good horror movie. So much wasted potential. If it had Rob Bottin's masterful SFX work later to be showcased in The Thing, it would have been a much more memorable environmental creature horror flick.

[theangrypeter]

The blu-ray release of this is so good, the image and sound were great and the interviews were very informative and fun to listen to. After hearing what Katahdin's original design looked like, maybe it was for the best that they went with the mutant bear thing for the monster. I personally think that the puppetry for the monster was great, but the suit was...not so good. I still like Tom Burman's work though, and I cant believe the crap that Rick Baker supposedly (not 100 % on this) pulled on him during the screening of this movie. What an asshole.


I was a little disappointed that were weren't any deleted scenes, as I really want to see Isley's uncut death (Katahdin rips his guts out folks, imagine how "grizzly" that would have been, yikes!) but Scream Factory still did a bang up job on this release!

[maclemaster]

This is awesome watched it as a little kid will never forget it

[StreetFreak]

A trailer a 1000x better than the film.

[Draco]

I both love and hate this movie at the same time. Love it because it’s a great horror movie. Hate it because the creature gave me nightmares.

[knucklesammich]

This trailer scared the ish outta when i was small.

[highwayman]

Haha, I remember this flick. Such a different time.... I was 9 or 10 and mom dropped me off with a few friends to watch it at the theater... Theaters and parents would be blasted these days. I remember it was kinda silly and not too scary.

[firehoney]

Seen this when I was 12 scared me for life.😄