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.

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   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


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