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Seven teenagers -- Katharine (Jewel Staite), Derek (Connor Fox), Mindy (Susie Abromeit), Jared (Michael Aills), Casey (Matty Ferraro), Richard (T.W. Leshner), and Sally (Jess Sylvia) -- in Point Pleasant, West Virginia accidentally drown Jared's little brother Jamie (Alex Hardee) while playing 'the-Mothman-is-gonna-get-you.' They decide to cover up the death by bashing in his head and telling everyone that he hit his head while diving. Ten years later, during the annual Mothman Festival, the teens (now grown up) find themselves being murdered one-by-one by the revengeful Mothman.

Mothman is a made-for-SyfyTV movie written by Patrick Walsh and Sonny Lee.

No. Mothman is a separate story from The Mothman Prophecies (2002) (2002).

Yes. Point Pleasant, West Virginia, a small town on the left bank of the Ohio River (which forms the boundary between West Virginia and Ohio) is credited as 'the home of the Mothman'. Back in December 1967, the Silver suspension bridge, connecting Point Pleasant with Gallipolis, Ohio, collapsed, killing 46 people. During the year previous to the bridge's collapse, several residents reported seeing large, winged creatures with glowing red eyes in and around the Point Pleasant area. According to the legend, the Mothman is seen as a harbinger of imminent disaster and is variously explained away as an alien, an angel, or a demon. Skeptics typically suggest that it was faulty perception, mass illusions, or just plain hoax. Debunkers have come up with low-flying planes, a large barn owl, a strayed sandhill crane, a mutated bird of some sort, and flashlights suspended from helium balloons The Mothman has even been linked with Native American stories about legendary Thunderbirds (large birds that could easily swoop down and carry away a man).

Although it's suggested that the area around Point Pleasant has long been considered by Native Americans to be inhabited by an evil spirit, the origin of Mothman in this film is credited to Chief Cornstalk, an 18th century Shawnee Indian who opposed white settlements along the Ohio River. According to the film, he was tortured by the white men. Before he died, however, he called up the evil spirit and transformed into the Mothman. The men cut him up and placed his body parts in a coffin lined with mirrors, making it so that Mothman can only cross over into the living world through reflective surfaces.

Frank Waverly provides a possible explanation for that. Waverly tells Katharine that there is no leaving Point Pleasant once the Mothman 'has you in his sights.' The best assumption is that Katharine left Point Pleasant soon enough after Jamie's death that the Mothman hadn't yet gotten her 'in his sights.'

As the mayor is addressing the Festival crowd, Mothman flies overhead, and pandemonium breaks out. A woman is knocked from her seat on the Ferris wheel, and the police start firing at Mothman. The mayor dives for cover, and Frank Waverly takes the podium, blaming the whole town for covering up his little brother's death. Just as he calls for blood to be spilled in order for the town to be forgiven, Mothman kills him. Katharine, Derek, and Casey drive up in their pickup. Derek begins firing on Mothman while Katharine runs around yelling, 'No...no...go home', and Casey takes refuge in a policecar. The mayor picks up a gun and begins shooting at Mothman, but it attacks and kills him. Casey barrels the policecar into Mothman, but Mothman breaks the windshield and kills Casey. Katharine fires a rifle at Mothman and blows up the car. Mothman still keeps coming. Remembering how he squealed when she jabbed him with the bone knife in Frank's basement, Katharine goes after Mothman with the knife. She succeeds in stabbing him in the chest, after which he disintegrates, releasing a cloud of black moths with a big red spot on their wings. In the final scene, Katharine visits Derek in the hospital. She kisses him...twice. After the second kiss, her eyes begin to glow red. Derek backs up against the headboard, yelling, 'Stay away from me!' Black moths start flying all around him.