PROPHECY (Eureka Classics) New & Exclusive Trailer

Robert Foxworth and Talia Shire 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.

A graphically violent piece of environmental horror from director John Frankenheimer, PROPHECY comes to Blu-ray for the first time ever in the UK.

SPECIAL BLU-RAY EDITION CONTAINS:

Limited Edition O-Card Slipcase featuring new artwork by Darren Wheeling [First Print Run of 2000 copies only] | 1080p presentation on Blu-ray from a High Definition transfer | Optional English SDH Subtitles | New feature length audio commentary by Richard Harland Smith | New feature length audio commentary by film writers Lee Gambin & Emma Westwood | New interview with screenwriter David Seltzer | New interview with mime artist Tom McLoughlin | Original Theatrical Trailer | PLUS: A LIMITED EDITION Collector’s Booklet featuring new writing by Craig Ian Mann; and an archival interview [First Print Run of 2000 copies only]

[deanladue]

Great trailer! 👍👍 I am hopeful that there will be some scenes that I think have been missing since the original '79 theatrical release. One can only hope.

[tonymerrell]

I watched this a long time ago and it's still burned into my brain as "never go in woods". Didn't help that I later joined the Army and seemed to always get stuck on watch-duty at the absolute-ass-crack-of-night, by myself, and had to walk around the perimeter. I was so scared, I could hear my bones sliding past each other, and this shit still gives me the creeps. 😅

[RandolfPatton]

I'm torn on this movie because where it fails in terms of creature effects, pacing, script, editing and mise-en-scene and directorial choices, it really delivers with a great premise, stunning and atmospheric cinematography, a real sense of isolation, tension and dread throughout (except where it's ruined by bad camerawork and clunky practical effects), some believable performances, (especially Richard Dysart in the pulp mill scene) some decent creature design, and a spectacular forest setting. Evergreen forest locations are underused in cinema and this one was shot by the legendary Harry Stradling Jr. and captures the unsettling beauty of the woods better than any film I've seen. The Leonard Rosenman score was tv movie quality and forgettable, but not outright camp. This could have been "Alien" or "The Thing in the deep forest but I still enjoy it.

[ek]

Out there, is a mindless, merciless creature of destruction... Don't move. Don't breathe. Or else, she will find you.

Prophecy qualifies on several odd fronts at once: It’s simultaneously a “nature attacks” rip-off in the vein of Jaws (1975) or Grizzly (1976), and also a would-be environmental passion piece, wrapped up in the guise of an exploitation horror movie. Oh, and it also wants to be Alien (1979). Suffice it to say, it’s a bizarre, messy mixed bag, but one that stands out for the oddity of its monster, a mutated, hind-leg-walking bear that was transformed by the industrial waste produced by a paper mill. Watching today, it might almost remind viewers of Steven Spielberg’s The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), as the monstrous mutant bears (yes there are actually FOUR of them: two cubs (one dead, the other alive), Katahdin, (the main antagonist, also the mother), and her mate, which we don't see until the final scene of the movie before the credits) assumes the role of the T-Rex pair, vengeful and desperate to recover its threatened offspring from the EPA agents investigating the crisis. Prophecy feels a bit ponderous, and painfully a product of its late ’70s origin, but don’t pass it by without appreciating one of the most unintentionally hilarious death scenes in the history of monster cinema*. Absolutely worth a click.