Review – Eyes of the Mothman

Though normally I'm a sucker for urban legends, cryptozoology and the like, even way back when I first read about the Mothman my reaction was, "A dude with giant moth wings? That's just stupid." This documentary did little to change my opinion. The first 40 minutes don't even talk about the monster at all, instead exhausting the history of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, and the surrounding countryside. And even when they finally do get down to the title menace, it's, well, a dude with giant moth wings. This would have been a merely a mediocre production with some genuinely awful grammar (not just the interviewees but the narration as well) if not for the Silver Bridge collapse. That these yahoos are willing to tie their silly little monster game to the tragic deaths of dozens of people is just pathetic. See if desperate