Product: Communion (1989)
Rating: 4.0
Extremely scary
Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind is totally child's play compared to the movie adaptation of Whitley Strieber's communion, as far as scary UFO movies are concerned. Simply because Close Encounters was totally fictional, and Communion is allegedly not, based on Whitley Strieber's alien abduction right after the Christmas holiday in 1985. Apparently before the book Communion hit the market, Strieber was a struggling author (my mother, while being an avid reader, never heard of the guy until Communion). I have never been so creeped out in my life until I watched Communion. In fact I was having such a difficult time sleeping because this movie was allegedly not fiction. I was actually scared that I might get abducted myself. No horror film, no slasher flick, nothing that I have seen comes even close to being as creepy as Communion. I have not read the book, although I have heard Whitley Strieber speak of his alien encounters like on Art Bell's radio program. If you like movies based on supposed real life alien abductions like The UFO Incident (about Betty & Barney Hill's abduction) or Fire in the Sky (about Travis Walton's abduction), you're sure to like this one.