Prophecy is a 1979 horror film directed by John Frankenheimer and written by David Seltzer. It stars Robert Foxworth, Talia Shire and Armand Assante. Not to be confused with the 1995 film The Prophecy, this is an ecological fable about the evils of industrial pollution. A novelization of the film, written by Seltzer as well, was also published, with the tagline "A Novel of Unrelenting Terror". Tracking two lost lumberjacks through the night, a rescue team nearly follows a hound over a cliff. Two men rappel down to retrieve the fallen hound, but they are killed. The third, hearing screams down... below, rappels down to investigate, where he finds his team mates dead, killed by a mysterious creature. Dr. Robert Verne is fed up with dealing with the squalor of city tenements. He does not feel he is making a difference. He accepts a job from the Environmental Protection Agency to write a report on a logging operation near Androscoggin River in Maine. The loggers are in a dispute with the local American Indian "Opies" , the original people. Dr. Verne's wife Maggie accompanies him on the trip.
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| Release date: | June 15, 1979 |
| Directed by: | John Frankenheimer |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 102 Minutes |
| Music by: | Leonard Rosenman |
| Estimated budget: | $12,000,000 |
| Genre: | Science Fiction |