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• 1 hr 46 mins
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The Prophet has arrived in the ultimate playing ground... Los Angeles. It has taken an innocent childhood game and twisted it into a deadly match of wits, where the only prize is survival. Moving from city to city, The Prophet lures unsuspecting contestants into solving the riddles it supplies. If the contestants are wrong, somebody dies... somebody famous.

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The prophet's game.

Directed by David Worth

A serial killer is playing a deadly game...

Moving from city to city, The Prophet lures unsuspecting contestants into solving the riddles it supplies. If the contestants are wrong, somebody dies and somebody is famous.

Dennis Hopper Stephanie Zimbalist Robert Yocum Joe Penny Greg Lauren Shannon Whirry Sondra Locke Darin Cooper Thorsten Kaye Don Swayze Margaret Blye Meilani Paul Patrick Thomas Robert Ginty Michael Dorn Skye McCole Bartusiak Geoffrey Lewis Marcia Moran Taylor Momsen Andrew Ducote

Director Director

David Worth

Producers Producers

Bob Myers Donise Hardy Robert Yocum Yael Stroh Willi Bär

Writer Writer

Carol Chrest

Casting Casting

Linda Berger

Editor Editor

Steve Swersky

Cinematography Cinematography

Assistant director asst. director.

Cara McCastlain Fisher

Executive Producer Exec. Producer

Rainer Bienger

Lighting Lighting

Henry Coccetti

Production Design Production Design

George Costello

Art Direction Art Direction

Maria Caso Don Maskovich

Set Decoration Set Decoration

Sarah Sprawls

Special Effects Special Effects

Josh Hakian

Stunts Stunts

Paul E. Short Bob Bragg Patrick J. Statham Bret Davidson Mary Albee Cole S. McKay Gina Angela Ritchie

Costume Design Costume Design

Ann Gray Lambert

Makeup Makeup

Sheri Knight

Hairstyling Hairstyling

Moonstone Entertainment Cinerenta Prophet's Productions

Germany USA

Releases by Date

06 jun 2000, 06 jun 2020, 18 jul 2001, 21 nov 2012, releases by country.

• Theatrical 16
• Theatrical R

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Review by Tinkerbuff ★★½

This is phenomenally bad but you really should check it out. Every scene is the worst form of the scene it can be. Dennis Hopper displays a phoned in performance that can only be topped by his role in 24. All the characters are wild caricatures of cliche roles. During the knife stabbings, the music is ripped straight from Psycho and it sounds like someone is squeezing jello next to the microphone. The twists and turns aren't so much clever as much as the movie is incoherent. It's like an assault of babbling nonsense from all fronts.

You really gotta see this one

Review by The_Fox ★★ 2

“I just wonder what he’s gonna cut up next.”

There are hundreds, if not thousands of movies that I would love to have in pristine quality on UHD. And they put a mediocre DTV production on UHD. Fate is really ridiculing me…

Review by Steven Millan ★★★

Despite his success with the film SPEED,Dennis Hopper(BLUE VELVET,HOOSIERS) spend the latter years of his career(from the late 90s to the mid 00s/2000s) acting in a large array of Straight-To-VHS video/DVD films.with this David Worth(KICKBOXER[1989],LADY DRAGON) directed thriller being one of them as it has Hopper as a retired cop who is brought back into the game of police work when he is recruited by a local police chief(Joe Penny[S.O.B.,BITTERSWEET]) to aid the police in investigating a series of grisly killings that are committed by a shadowy killer known as the Prophet,who is enacting a childhood game that their father(Don Sawyze[EACH BABES FROM BEYOND,DEATH RING]) was strongly against(and violently lashed out against) as Hopper's adult daughter was one of the…

Review by movieman96 ★★½

Not my cup of tea of movie.

Retired Detective Vincent swan, receives a post card, with the words "i want to play a game". this then Sets Swan on a mission to understand the riddles the killer is giving the victims of the Game they are playing. I found this not to be my cup of tea of film as the story felt like the scream films were the person has to play a game on the phone and if not answered right, the person on the phone would be murdered, and also did not like the reveal of the killer as i would have prefferd a bit more back story to how the killer knew Swan. Over all it wasn't my cup of tea of film, also much prefer Hopper in Easy rider and the speed film then this film.

2.5 out of 10

No Rewatch in Future.

Review by PetersMovyLogs ★★

This is pretty "bad" in many ways but I had a great time watching it! This definitely could be a candidate for a Vinegar Syndrome release 😉 There are so many odd choices made with dialog, situations, shots, etc that it made it quite fun to keep watching to see it unfold.

I guess I have to rate it low since it's so bad, but I will hit the Like button since I was entertained and had a good time watching it 😉👍

I saw the cast list on this one and then saw who the director is and I had to turn this on! 👍

Random thoughts and notes below:

Did they use the screeching from Psycho for the…

Review by Stratus ★★ 1

ok idk why i watched that.... i was high tho so i had a very enjoyable time. the guy playing lewis gave such an inspired performance it was sad how quickly he was gone

Review by Joe Randazzo ★★★½

Another solid post Se7en direct to video thriller. This one has an excellent cast, and is an interesting mystery (even if it is predictable and obvious).

Video source: The Prophet’s Game DVD

Review by Sitheis ★½

3.8 I’m drained

Review by Paul Carstairs ★

I like Commander Worf.

Review by SweeneyTom ★★

My second exposure to the Straight To DVD Dennis Hopper Era and I don't like it. Generic concept with really nothing to it beyond a name being involved in it, and it sucks because the name is why I wanted to give this a try

Review by G ★★★

Dennis Hopper plays an aging detective chasing the serial killer who murdered his daughter. Really wild early 2000’s stuff. For some reason all the wounds are gray? Even the fresh ones? Shannon Whirry’s boobs were blurred out too, so maybe I just watched a weird copy. The crossword expert is whack.

Review by JaxLikes2Relax ★★★

I didn’t know Don Swayze was a person until I watched this movie.

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Written by wuchak on june 7, 2022.

Dennis Hopper as a retired detective tracking down a serial killer with Stephanie Zimbalist

Dennis Hopper stars as Vincent Swan, a retired detective from Seattle who is asked to fly to Los Angeles to help solve a new rash of murders similar to a case he supposedly solved a dozen years earlier. Stephanie Zimbalist co-stars as "Al," a frustrated officer assigned to keep an eye on Swan while the hardboiled chief of detectives conducts the investigation (Joe Penny). Robert Yocum, Shannon Whirry, Greg Lauren, Michael Dorn and Sondra Locke are also on hand.

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