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This weekend, Point Pleasant will host the first Mothman Festival in its downtown with rides for children, props from last year's hit movie "The Mothman Prophecies"

"Hit movie?" Like heck it was a hit!

According to the Internet Movie Database, Mothman was a flop, opening in January 2002 (not 2001) with an $11 million weekend. That was only good enough for third behind pop star Mandy Moore's A Walk To Remember and a whiz-bang remake of The Count of Monte Cristo.

By the end of March 2002, word of mouth had killed Mothman, and it was yanked from US theaters after a paltry $49,000 weekend brought the gross to only $35 million domestically. The film's budget was $42 million.

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Put wings on Hillary Clinton and Janet Reno and let them fly around flaring their nostrils in the sequel. That would be scarier than The Exorcist or The Blair Witch.