Prophecy (1979)
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25% of critics liked it
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39% of users liked it
(3,642 ratings)
This schlock horror classic from the 1970s is a product of the career ebb experienced by director John Frankenheimer. Robert Foxworth stars as Dr. Robert Verne, an inner-city physician renowned for his compassion and fairness. So he's asked by the EPA to mediate a dispute between Native American… More This schlock horror classic from the 1970s is a product of the career ebb experienced by director John Frankenheimer. Robert Foxworth stars as Dr. Robert Verne, an inner-city physician renowned for his compassion and fairness. So he's asked by the EPA to mediate a dispute between Native American tribes and a polluting paper mill in isolated northern Maine. Accompanied by his pregnant wife Maggie (Talia Shire), a classical musician, Robert journeys to the deep woods, where he meets the tribal leader, John Hawks (Armand Assante) and a representative of the mill, Mr. Isley (Richard Dysart). It turns out that the mill is indeed poisoning the local water supply with mercury, causing illness among tribe members and some mutated local wildlife. The Native Americans and the paper mill point fingers at each other for a rash of recent disappearances in the area, but Robert believes that something more ominous is responsible when he observes a huge salmon eat a duck. He's proved right when he encounters an enormous, mutated grizzly bear with a taste for human flesh. Unfortunately for Robert and Maggie, he has taken one of the creature's cubs back to camp, leading an angry mother bear to his tent flap. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi
- Directed By
- John Frankenheimer
- Written By
- David Seltzer
- Genres
- Science Fiction & Fantasy, Horror
- In Theaters
- Jun 15, 1979 Wide
- On DVD
- Jan 8, 2002
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures
Critic Reviews
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Neil Cohen, Echo Magazine
Truly a guilty pleasure! When your radioactive grizzly bear looks like someone poured a strawberry sundae on its head, you know you're in for a good time!
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Staci Layne Wilson, StaciWilson.com
I predicted this flick would be so bad it's good. I was wrong.
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Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Remarkably undistinguished
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Walter Chaw, Film Freak Central
Prophecy fails so miserably that it reaches depths generally reserved for William Shatner records and Nora Ephron screenplays. Watch it with a friend.
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James Kendrick, Q Network Film Desk
a dim-witted creature-feature that takes itself far too seriously
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Cast
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Talia Shire
as Maggie
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Robert Foxworth
as Rob
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Armand Assante
as Hawks
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Richard Dysart
as Isley
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Victoria Racimo
as Ramona
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Tom McFadden
as Pilot
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George Clutesi
as M'Rai
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Mia Bendixsen
as Girl
- Jim Burk
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Burke Byrnes
as Father
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Evans Evans
as Cellist
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Charles H. Gray
as Sheriff
- Graham Jarvis
- Lon Katzman
- Steve Shemayne
- Bob Terhune
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Johnny Timko
as Boy
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Everett Creach
as Kelso