1995 • dir Gregory Widen w/Elias Koteas, Virginia Madsen, Christopher Walken, Eric Stoltz, Adam Goldberg, Amanda Plummer, Viggo Mortensen • 98 min • 35mm
Bombastic, excessive, and absurd, THE PROPHECY follows a lapsed Catholic LAPD detective (Koteas) as he tries to make sense of the fact that an actual honest-to-God angel has appeared in his living room to warn him about an impending cataclysm. Accused of being “hard to swallow” and “too loopy” upon its release – as if a film about angels bringing the civil war in Heaven to Earth could be anything other than over the top – Gregory Widen’s film has since become a cult classic.
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The Prophecy
Double Feature with THE RAPTURE (7:00)
1995 • dir Gregory Widen w/Elias Koteas, Virginia Madsen, Christopher Walken, Eric Stoltz, Adam Goldberg, Amanda Plummer, Viggo Mortensen • 98 min • 35mm
Bombastic, excessive, and absurd, THE PROPHECY follows a lapsed Catholic LAPD detective (Koteas) as he tries to make sense of the fact that an actual honest-to-God angel has appeared in his living room to warn him about an impending cataclysm. Accused of being “hard to swallow” and “too loopy” upon its release – as if a film about angels bringing the civil war in Heaven to Earth could be anything other than over the top – Gregory Widen’s film has since become a cult classic.