worth seeing for one scene.
Just watch for when he walks downstairs and looks around the living room. One of the spookiest shots in sci-fi/or Horror movies ever.Creepy.
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That scene where he wakes up and the alien's head sticks halfway out from the corner is so friggin scary its crazy. That image made me stay awake for a year, I was so scared I would be abducted by aliens - LOL.
Overall I think it is an underated film.
They even parodied that scene in South Park in the first episode. The grey alien peeks around cartmen's door in the same way as the alien in communion.
shareAm i the only one who wasnt scared by this movie??
Maybe its cause i never saw it as a teenager or kid. The movie wasnt even out then! lol I first saw it just about a month ago or so. And i certainly wasnt scared. Not to say it wasnt creepy...i just wasnt scared .
Aliens dont scare me i guess. And you all shouldnt be scared of them..
The book is really good, detailed and chilling. My fear of aliens has resurfaced when I started reading the book just a few days ago. Im kind of embarrassed cause when I was a kid this movie scared me and now im afraid again as an adult because of the book.lol
My mom's been *beep*' a dead guy for 30 years. I call him dad. _Clerks
I think this scene really grabs you if you've ever had the experience of being awake in the wee small hours and terrified that there is something under the bed, in the cupboard, coming down the hall, etc etc. Many of us have had this experience as children, and some (me included) would confess to still having it from time to time as adults.
So when Christopher Walken, as an adult, asks "Is that someone there?" and the answer for once isn't "of course not" but a definite yes, it confirms deeply-held suspicions that there is something out there to get us, and it's not pretty. It's the big, frightening, indefatigable unknown that has come up from the depths to finally stare us in the face. It's not really the fact that it's an alien, it's more about it being something that is coming with its own unknown horrible plans for you, something that can't be reasoned or bargained with.
I always thought that Monsters Inc. walked a fine line for similar reasons, but perhaps I'm overdoing it now ;)
This scene gave me half my nightmares as a kid . . .
The other half were generated by that wolf thing in the Neverending Story.
Interestingly, Streiber was a horror writer befoe he wrote Communion:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitley_Strieber
How bizzare! This is the scene that gets me and my mate as well. Its so creepy. I would doubt on any other horror movie board you'd find any discussion like this of a scene. I was 10 when it came out. Still to this day, that shot epitomises fear.
Is there somebody there?
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Hey thanks KindOfBlue68! Good to have a more sensible perspective on it.
Ironic too - I didn't see The Exorcist until I was about 30 and I thought it was pure daftness. It was as though someone made a "What would be really shocking?" list and went about ticking off the boxes, but then I saw it as an adult in broad daylight with the full (disappointed) expectation of being outraged.
I guess it all comes down to how impressionable you're feeling when you see a film.
I'm glad I didnt know about this movie as a kid. I remember that my friend's mom had the book on her bookshelf, and that picture (combined with the synopsis) freaked me out. I had heard alien abduction stories since I was a tot, so they always creeped me out. The movie may have scarred me for life if I had seen it. Now I'm going to watch the movie, just to see what I think as an adult. Walken rules anyway.
I must keep reminding myself of this.
Here is an article about this very thread....
http://www.kindertrauma.com/?p=1539
You hit that on the money in your article.
I witnessed this as a child and was no stranger to horror. I seen so many horror movies by the time I was ten it was not even funny. Literaly nothing was blocked from my vision.
I can honestly say that this scene was the most traumatic scene upon my life in the history of cinema.
It haunts me to this day. I still often wake at night thinking about this.
By far this movie was the scariest movie I ever seen in my life. *beep* like texas chainsaw or exorcist or Nightmare on Elm Street have nothing on this.
May I concur with the majority of posters on this thread; The scene in question sent shivers up my spine (and still does to this day!)
What made it most effective for me was the actual delivery; director Mora could have course have gone the obvious route with a 'jump' scene but instead opted for incredible subtlety (the sequence being deliberately slow and the alien was only half revealed)
Truly one of the creepiest moments in cinematic history.
Cinematic perfection...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05nWByyD1kw
Count me in too, folks. I am 43 this year, and that scene scared the dickens out of me when I first saw the movie.
Not word up---just WORD.
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When that stupid alien face peered around the corner, my childhood sleep was ruined. What makes it worse for me as kid was someone had claimed that this was true. I'm glad I'm not the only kid that was scarred for life.
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The alien peeking behind the cabinet gave me nightmares for days.
I finally got a chance to rent this movie again as an adult of 30. I wasn't expecting the scene so early on. When I caught a glimpse of that alien, my heart stopped.
I haven't had such a fearful reaction to an image since... well, since watching this movie as a child. It's the be-all and end-all of frightening imagery.
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