Communion

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Product Details

Director : Philippe Mora
Actor : Christopher Walken, Lindsay Crouse, Frances Sternhagen, Andreas Katsulas, Terri Hanauer
Format : Import, NTSC
Binding : VHS Tape
EAN : 9780780621251
Product Group : Video
Release Date : 1998-09-01
UPC : 794043462337

ASIN : 0780621255

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Editorial Reviews

From Amazon.com

Was author Whitley Strieber telling the truth about extraterrestrial visitations in his bestselling book, Communion? Perhaps no one can really prove or disprove it, making the enigma of Strieber himself more interesting than his allegations. That's precisely the angle taken by this film adaptation, in which Christopher Walken's richly eccentric performance becomes a fascinating portrait of something more important than rumors of alien abduction--that is, human resistance and surrender to transformation. The script does an end run around the deductive process and research Strieber employed in his book to substantiate his claims. Instead, the story concentrates on the impact of those experiences on Strieber's own psyche: the disbelief, the repressed memories, the mounting helplessness and futility as the years go by.

Walken makes it all terribly compelling, from his childlike compliance to the diminutive aliens who turn up in his home at night to an unexpected story climax in which Strieber demystifies the little buggers on his own surprisingly comic terms. The supporting cast is terrific, including Lindsay Crouse as Strieber's concerned wife, Frances Sternhagen as a doctor, and Joel Carlson as Strieber's son. This is not an offering that panders to today's alleged abductees, but rather a study of a sole survivor who finds his peace on his own terms. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews

WORST MOVIE EVER MADE! (2004-06-24)

I wasted my money, even though it was like 10 dollars, but still I feel so robbed. I'm an amateur film maker, and this movie has absolutely nothing going for it. I thought it was going to be the next "Intruders", or "Fire in the Sky", especially with Walken in it. Not only did this movie kill Walken's image in my mind, It also showed me how non creative some people are in this world, and that they think and some how do seem to make it. THIS MOVIE IS HIRINDOUSLY HORRIBLE FROM EVERY ANGLE YOU CAN IMAGINE. NEVER BUY!!!!!! NEVER WATCH!!!!!, AT BEST THIS IS A SMOKE UP MOVIE TO LAGUH AT. EVEN THAT IS PUSHING THE LIMITS. Any ALIEN BELIEVER OUT THERE THE SLIGHTEST will be embarrassed, and will wont to hunt down the pretentious director, with no IMAGINATION even with a low budget. WOW is all I can say, it really seems like a dream how bad it turned out...god man. This movie will take away any credibility from any real abduction or UFO case known to man. The real Whitley Strieber where ever he may be has to hate this director with a passion unknown to mankind. WE NEED TO BURN ALL COPIES! And by the way I'm a 110% STRONG believer in Aliens, this movie just pissed me off.

WALKEN ABDUCTED BY ALIENS (2004-01-24)

Great moody film with the excellent Christopher Walken being abducted by aliens. Supposedly based on true events (yeah right) but Walken as always is very intense and watchable.Most people who have read the book do not like this film, but I found the book un-readable, and gave up half-way through.

WATCHERS and Watching ........ (2003-11-17)

DREADFUL DVD AND SOUND ....[shame!] BUT AN ABSOLUTELY 'MUST HAVE'.

WALKEN IS SUPERB AS THE MULTIFRACTURED HERO .....quite a tour-de-force and this one is very very chilling since you're [the watcher] never quite sure whether we're in Kansas or not. Last year's "Signs" brushes along similar lines - except this one is invasive ...... did they or didn't they ... and are they here or not????

DYNAMITE CAST includes the special Lindsay Crouse as Spouse, and Frances Sternhagen as the very perplexed psyc.

"Dreamcatcher" is another clone ... but this one [if it can] makes more sense.

WELL WORTH HAVING ..... those chilly New York night time shots and that cabin [sister dwelling to Amityville .......]

NOW, just click your Alien ....... there's no place like .....?

{Nicholas Roeg's "Don't Look Now" makes a terif. double-bill - something different, but also very creepy ~ then there's "The Comfort of Strangers" ..... another Walken triumph!]

Horrendous Letdown (2003-09-16)

It truly mystifies me how there could possibly be any good review of this film. I read the book, became engrossed in it for days, and enjoyed it immensely. It kept me thinking for a full year afterwards. If you've had a similar experience with the book, be prepared for absolute and total disappointment with the film. It will entirely pollute that part of your mind that the book developes so delicately and will leave you feeling deeply frustrated and disappointed. Worse still though, if you see the film before reading the book, you will be driven from the subject entirely, too repulsed to give the book a chance, not to mention the topic in general. The 'visitors' themselves represent a new low in film effects, and appear to be, at best, discount inflatable puppets motivated by discarded animatronics. In total, I feel an urgent sense that this film does a terrible disservice to Whitley Streiber, shifting the story of his experience from a place of thoughtful contemplation into the realm of the comically yet absolutely disregardable. Trust me, stay away, unless you enjoy pressing the fastforward button on your remote with desperate intensity.

A MAN PLAGUED BY ENDOGENOUS DMT DIMENSIONAL ENTITIES? (2003-06-24)

A TRUELY CREEPY film starring the wonderful Christopher Walken.

But after reading the book DMT: THE SPIRIT MOLECULE by Dr. Rick Strassman, maybe Mr. Strieber whose autobiographical story this is, is a man plagued by an endogenous (occurring within) chemical produced by the pineal gland called DMT (dimethyltryptamine). South American shamans and healers drink this in the form of a brew called AYAHUASCA. Known celebrities such as Sting and Paul Simon have imbibed in this ceremonial hallucinogen. Some, but not all, of the people who have ingested this chemical report very real experiences of fairies, elves and alien entities who often probe, work, and sometimes heal the participant. The theory is that the glands of people who experience alien abduction, are overproducing the chemical DMT. However, almost all of these participants believe that they were experiencing these alien entities and probes in a VERY REAL hyper-dimension that co-exists side by side with ours. AND that these entities are REAL. Which makes this film all the more intriguing!!

Is Whitley Strieber hallucinating or is he really tapping into another dimension? I tend to believe the latter.

READ WHITLEY STRIEBER'S BOOK ALONG WITH DMT: THE SPIRIT MOLECULE BY RICK STRASSMAN, M.D. (available here at Amazon.com)

THEN BEND YOUR MIND WITH THIS GREAT FILM AND DECIDE FOR YOURSELF.

YOU CAN'T BEAT THE PRICE!!

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