Prophecy 1979 DivX-NvadR

Prophecy.1979.DivX-NvadR http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079758/ Prophecy was originally promoted as a straightforward monster movie. Although critics panned the film, largely due to the unconvincing creature and special effects, a number of reviewers cited it as a horror film with a genuine social conscience. Moreover, the ecological details about methyl mercury contamination portrayed in the film are accurate, informative, and far more frightening than the story’s monster. In recent years, Prophecy has gained considerable popularity as an offbeat cult film. I love cheesy b-movies, but must confess that sometimes it is hard to shoulder through the low-grade filmmaking of most. One of the advantages of Prophecy is that it’s quite competently directed and the production (excepting the incredibly fake creatures) is comparable to other similar films of the 70s and early 80s. Prophecy boasts some really lovely scenery (with British Columbia doubling as Maine) and some acting that while not inspired, doesn’t cause one to cringe. You don’t get that often in schlock. The movie opens with Spielbergian flashlight beams in the dark as something hunts a search party and later Maggie makes a grotesque discovery by the river; the she-bear’s deformed offspring are caught in a net, warbling mindlessly. It’s scenes like these that make for nice, shivery, drive-in moments. Prophecy is also not without a twisted sense of humor. Classical music plays over scenes of an injured dog being air-lifted out of an attack site. Armand Assante, as the token Native American, stares stoically, scans the trees for mutant bears and tries to forget the fact he’s Italian. There is a clear turning point in the film. A family of campers settle down for the night , and are awakened by something growling. The daughter and father scream in terror as the meatloaf bear approaches, but its clearly too late for them. The young boy, wrapped up tight in his bright yellow sleeping bag, pulls himself to his feet and begins to hop around the campsite like a big (mutant) banana. The beast turns towards him and swats him into a rock where both the boy and sleeping bag explode into a flurry of feathers. As a kid, the scene was terrifying. As an adult, its an hilarious, off-kilter moment worthy of cheering. After this, the movie turns into a rubber-suit monster fest and never looks back. The bear goes after the cubs and trashes a camp. In a scene that is reminiscent of Jurassic Park, Assante, Foxworth and Shire flee in a truck as the bear lumbers behind, trying to swipe and nudge them off the road. The movie becomes so intent on its obviously ridiculous monster it even forgets about Shires doomed pregnancy, the logging debacle, and everything else. However, Prophecy has an atmosphere to it that helps the whole thing go down. It embraces the roots of a cheesy monster picture, but at some level it still operates on that dark, serious tone of the 70s that gave us movies like Deliverance and Jaws. Its not a scab on the knee of either of those movies, but utilizing that style makes it seem more legitimate. If you are a die-hard horror fan, you definitely need to check it out. Its not going to scare you, or make you reconsider eating the fish in Maine, but its such a spirited failure that it can't help but be entertaining. -------------- SCREENSHOTS ---------------- http://www.postimg.com/33000/photo-32997.jpg http://www.postimg.com/33000/photo-32999.jpg http://www.postimg.com/33000/photo-33000.jpg http://www.postimg.com/34000/photo-33002.jpg http://www.postimg.com/34000/photo-33004.jpg http://www.postimg.com/34000/photo-33005.jpg http://www.postimg.com/34000/photo-33006.jpg http://www.postimg.com/34000/photo-33007.jpg -------------------------------------------- General Format : AVI Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave File size : 700 MiB Duration : 1h 42mn Overall bit rate : 959 Kbps Writing library : VirtualDub-MPEG2 build 24586/release Video Format : MPEG-4 Visual Format settings, BVOP : Yes Format settings, QPel : No Format settings, GMC : No warppoints Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263) Muxing mode : Packed bitstream Codec ID : DX50 Codec ID/Hint : DivX 5 Duration : 1h 42mn Bit rate : 838 Kbps Width : 640 pixels Height : 272 pixels Display aspect ratio : 2.35:1 Frame rate : 23.976 fps Resolution : 24 bits Colorimetry : 4:2:0 Scan type : Progressive Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.201 Stream size : 612 MiB (87%) Writing library : DivX 6.8.4 Audio Format : AC-3 Format/Info : Audio Coding 3 Codec ID : 2000 Duration : 1h 42mn Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 112 Kbps Channel(s) : 2 channels Channel positions : L R Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz Stream size : 81.7 MiB (12%) Alignment : Aligned on interleaves Interleave, duration : 42 ms (1.00 video frame) Interleave, preload duration : 512 ms Source Region One DVD(NTSC) 720 x 480 29.970 fps 2.35:1 Color AC3 Dolby 2CH Stereo 192 Kb/s 48.0 KHz Encode Note All Distributor & Production Logo's Removed due to space constraints. Black borders removed due to bitrate constraints. Aspect 100% correct. Film is 100% complete, no-frills just thrills. (If your player is having problems displaying the correct aspect/resolution then you need to step up to KMPlayer, the only player superior to VLC & Media Player Classic!) NO SUBS --------- CURRENT TORRENT STATS ---------- http://torrent-stats.info/2184/2b121df0.png

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triple_fault (2011-04-28)

Thanks! I remember seeing this in some theatre on Long Island when I was a kid. My cousin and I were about the only ones cracking up to this movie. I think the rest of the people in there were horrified.
Funniest scene: When some guy is in his sleeping bag, the monster shows up, the guy tries to hop away, and the monster smacks him so hard the insides of the sleeping bag start flying all over the place.

reverendjon (2014-06-26)

That is an excellent summary to a fantastic upload, thank you very much!

village1diot (2014-11-02)

I just named my new puppy(who looks like a bear cub) Katahdin, after the mutated bear-creature in this movie. It has always been one of the scariest creatures from my childhood memories.
Thanks for the upload.