I think it would be nice if someone did a more current remake of this movie.
The visuals this movie creates are nothing like what I imagined while reading the book. The book was genuinely scary, where this movie is disjointed and almost silly. Christopher Walken was not a good choice to play Whitney Strieber. He's too quirky or too odd to generate much sympathy.
I don't recall if the book was this trippy. What I mean by that is Strieber's recollection and later hypnotically-induced memories are so scatter shot. It is really tough to stay with this. I thought Lindsay Crouse was good as Mrs. Strieber. She really grounded things and was the real voice of reason through the craziness.
The alien creations are very disappointing and the special effects are all bright lights and fog.
Well maybe this movie would of been awesome if I saw it back when it first came out. Unfortunately the costumes looked like something you can buy at a Halloween shop, not to mention that they threw in these random silly scenes that completely kills the seriousness that the movie was trying to go for. Now on the other hand Christopher Walken was awesome.
It's a bit of a confusing mess, dipping into some effective scary science fiction, then all of a sudden switching gears to stark science fact in dealing with the fallout on a human mind and his world around him after an abduction. It's all presented in a hazy dreamlike world that blurs the line of fantasy and reality. I imagine it's much like the experience one would have from being abducted.
Started off good. First half I thought this movie was a little underrated. Then it becomes a really tedious and tacky movie. What a shame. Walken was sometimes fantastic and then sometimes appeared to play the role in a way that didn't make sense or was the wrong choice.
Even for an 80s movie this was a bad b-movie, horrible at every aspect, couldn't go past 30 minutes
Shout by CarloBlockedParent2020-10-03T20:07:09Z
The only thing I had in mind while watching this was:"This is what untreated mental illness looks like."