YMMV / Prophecy

• Anvilicious: Possibly the preachiest monster movie ever made. Not only the Green Aesop about pollution but abortion, urban squalor, Indian rights and corporate greed are all invoked at various points.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: A certain pair; Mr. Stone and Mr. Parker, must have seen this film because Katahdin looks very familiar to Manbearpig. Or maybe it has an animated cousin.
• Narm:
  • The exploding sleeping bag!
  • Likewise, the sudden attacks by various mercury-crazed animals earlier in the film (most notably the fireplace raccoon) are more likely to provoke guffaws than terror.
  • The overblown creepy music when we first see the paper mill almost sounds like a parody.
• Nausea Fuel: Katahdin was so absolutely revolting it had people puking in the theaters.
• Retroactive Recognition: The late Kevin Peter Hall, later to be better known as the Predator and Harry was inside the Katahdin suit.
• So Bad, It's Good: In his book about the horror genre, Danse Macabre, Stephen King cited this film as a prime example of an enjoyably bad movie (he admitted to watching it three times).
• Special Effects Failure: Katahdin looks good in certain closeups and distant shots. More direct shots, however, are about as convincing as a Power Rangers monster.

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