In Point Pleasant, WV a prank on a friend goes fatally wrong and a group of teens figure the smart move is to cover up their responsibility in the poor kid’s death. 10 years later, one of those teenagers has become a journalist and her boss sends her back to her hometown to cover the 10th annual Mothman Festival (if you’re not familiar, it’s about the only thing Point Pleasant is famous for. Well, that and a tragic bridge accident but the two things go hand in hand). Faster than you can say “I know what you did nine summers ago” the journalist is back in town and strange things start going down. Katherine’s old flame looks to reignite that fire that was snuffed out when... you know, they accidentally murdered a kid and then lied about it but the romantic shenanigans are put on hold when the winged cryptid kills the fuck out of the guilty goobers. The thing pops up in reflective surfaces (a reflection of guilt... so deep!) and its victims end up very dead. A local loon has some answers thanks to him being one of the only survivors of a mothman encounter and spills that the old fly-guy is an evil spirit summoned by a Native American because of course it is. Jewel Staite is always welcome in this house and makes our hero very easy to root for. The monster is not the best quality digital creation but it does get a lot of screen time and I’m all for that. Nothing special but it does get goofy as it winds down.
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