Why Was Mothman Watchman Sent To The Crazy House?
I wondered that myself while watching that movie. An excellent movie, in my opinion by the way…
Question asked on Yahoo Answers: Why was the Mothman Watcher sent to the asylym?
Beware; for some reason the link doesn’t work, or it didn’t for me; I got an alert that Yahoo removed the question due to “community guidelines.” So here’s what came through in my alerts:
It’s not clear in the film but here’s what I found on wiki :
“During the ’50s, as Mason later mentions, the House UnAmerican Activities Committee forced all active costumed vigilantes to reveal themselves to one of their representatives. Due to left-wing friends that Mothman had cultivated while a student, his clearance was considerably more difficult than his companions. He was eventually cleared, but Mason describes the investigations as both lengthy and ruthless.
Mason speculates that the pressure of this meeting may have prompted his future drinking problem, but Laurence Schexnayder points out that the stem of his harder drinking was after the death of Dollar Bill. After a long bout of drinking, Mothman had a complete mental breakdown, and in 1962 he was admitted into a mental institution that Rorschach reveals is in Maine. “
New Mothman Movie to Air on SyFy
A Mothman movie is to air on the SyFy channel April 24th. Here’s the blurb:
Jewel Staite (Firefly, Stargate Atlantis) stars in Mothman, premiering Saturday, April 24, at 9PM (ET/PT). In the movie, the legendary West Virginia monster returns to exact revenge on five childhood friends who covered up an accidental killing. Produced by Brad Krevoy and Reuben Liber. Directed by Sheldon Wilson. Written by Sonny Lee and Patrick Walsh. Source: Sci Fi Talk Official Blog.
I hope it’ll be better than the awful Jersey Devil movie they aired a year or so ago. As much as I love Lou Diamond Phillips, the movie couldn’t transcend the enjoyable B movie vibe. I didn’t expect it to be good good, just, not… bad. Mainly it was the ending that got to me; as if all the producers and the director just gave up and tried to finish the movie off so they all go home.
Anyway, of course I’ll be watching Mothman!
Frank Feschino’s Flatwoods Monster on Monster Quest
No doubt uber-skeptic Joe Nickell will be on the program and tell us that the Flatwoods Monster was just an owl.
“Mothman” Crop Circle
From last year, but an interesting find. . .
