Questioned by a suspicious local Lieutenant (James Garner), Walton gradually remembers disturbing events that apparently occurred aboard the UFO.Ī quiet, slow-paced film, Fire In The Sky is more interested in the emotional effects of Walton’s experiences than the details of his abduction. Walton is found five days later, traumatised and naked. His co-workers, rather selfishly, drive off and leave him. When Walton steps out of his truck to take a closer look at a UFO, he’s struck by a blinding beam of light. Sweeney), Fire In The Sky opens in November 1975, with Walton and his fellow workers (who include Robert Patrick and Hancock director Peter Berg) returning home from a day’s work in the forest. Where Communion treated its character’s experiences ambiguously, allowing the audience to draw its own conclusions, director Robert Lieberman’s Fire In The Sky treats its events as absolute fact.īased on the experiences of Arizona logger Travis Walton (played here by D. He spends much of the film wearing weird hats, mumbling to himself and complaining about paintings that “attack without provocation.” It’s surprising, in fact, that aliens would choose such a terrifying man to abduct. While critics treated Communion with disdain in the late 80s, it’s nevertheless worth watching for Walken’s eccentric, semi-improvised acting. Do the dreadful puppet effects serve to underline the delusional nature of the author’s apparent recollections, or are they merely a reflection of the film’s low production values? Rubbery aliens notwithstanding, Communion has occasional moments of genuine unease, and if nothing else, the film underlines how frightening such encounters must be to those who experience them. Seeking the help of a psychiatrist, he recalls, while under hypnosis, his abduction at the pale hands of aliens.Ĭommunion is an odd, often surreal film, and the nature of Strieber’s encounters are frequently ambiguous. Returning from a weekend stay at his woodland cabin, Strieber is haunted by memories of strange lights and grey faces in windows. Memorable for its once groundbreaking CG depiction of a shiny flying ship, Flight Of The Navigator is a fun sci-fi romp (particularly if you were a nine-year-old boy in the 80s), despite the fact that its breezy second half can’t match up to the intriguing set-up of the first.Ĭhristopher Walken turns in an extraordinary, bizarre performance as author Whitley Strieber, in this adaptation of the writer’s apparently real account of extraterrestrial visitation. This being a Disney film, Flight Of The Navigator is high on cute aliens and low on disturbing experiments, and the latter half of the movie is essentially an excuse for its young hero to go for a joyride in a shiny alien spacecraft (which, incidentally, bears more than a passing resemblance to the ship in Hammer’s classic 1969 movie Quatermass And The Pit).
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A quick brain scan reveals that his brain is crammed full of star maps, placed there by his alien abductors, and that his lost eight years were the result of a faster than light journey to the distant planet, Phaelon. 12-year-old David (Joey Cramer) is knocked unconscious and wakes up to discover that eight years have passed.
A kind of junior Close Encounters, Flight Of The Navigator was Disney’s family-friendly rendering of an alien abduction story.
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