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Need help in remembering this film, please!

posted 20 years ago by jse4672
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I remember a mini-series (I think, possibly a one-shot TV movie) that aired in the late 80's or early 90's about a woman who realizes she has been abducted by aliens. I am not sure if the film I remember is "Intruders" or not. The only specific details I can remember are the woman has a sudden bloody nose at a store of some kind,a seizure after seeing a painting of a devil-like creature, she is bothered in the middle of the night by yellow flashing lights that she believes belongs to a street crew or some type of maintenance crew but later remembers (through hypnosis) the lights belong to the E.T.'s, very dark figures walk through her walls toward her bed that she later identifies as aliens, and I believe things happened to her every night at the same time(3:45am?). I am 23 years old now and seeing as how these memories are at least 10 years old they are certainly fuzzy. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Whatever this film is it scared me for a whole summer.

[–] smackajacka 20 years ago

Hey, is it me or is it ironic how u wrote this on Friday 13th?

Anyway, to answer your question, yes, every detail u remember is about Intruders and they are certainly accurate for someone remembering it 10 years back. I myself was about 7/8 when I watched Intruders on cable here in the UK for the first time and I remembered almost exactly the same scenes you did and in great detail! I take it you mustve been about 10 or 11 when u watched it? This film scared me for like a whole few months and whenever I read about UFOs after that period in my life, the memories of it would come flooding back. One of my friends too recalls a certain scene very accurately (the one where the woman is woken up at night by lights and sees the maintenance crew). Im beginning to think it mustve had a deep scarring impact on us kids for us to remember it in that much detail and even more bizarre, we only remember those particular scenes and not much else. Anyway, I hoped this helped.

(H)Astila Vista Baby

[–] jse4672 20 years ago

Thanks for the help. It's good to hear
i am not the only one who was scared by, or even remembers, this film. I just found the DVD on Amazon and I'm mulling over a purchase, but I don't want to ruin my memories by realizing the movie is a turd. I'll flip a coin.

Thanks again!

[–] twist_x 19 years ago

I know this is an old post, but have you seen the DVD available anywhere else? I can't find it on amazon and I'm in Zone 1 as far as DVDs go and can't find a copy on ebay :S

[–] Alien9901 17 years ago

This movie scared me to death as a child, especially watching it after seeing a real UFO.

[–] manitou-full-moon 20 years ago

I remember the same series back from 1993. Gave me nightmares as a kid. I cannot remember much about it, but it has been reissued on DVD by Paramount Home Entertainment, so it could be worth checking out.

[–] smackajacka 20 years ago

hey manitou-full-moon, are u in the UK? Did u see Intruders on cable as well at that time?

(H)Astila Vista Baby

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[–] SpikeSpiegel25 18 years ago

ill agree with everyone else. that this series scared the living hell out of me when i was younger. a generation of kids scared at Intruders. {sigh} having a relapse of watchin it now.

..been dazed and confused for so long..

[–] JefferyLeininger 18 years ago

probably one of, if not the most, scariest movies I've ever seen. when it was aired on cable back in 1992 I was 14 and had a very difficult time sleeping, being alone, in the dark, etc. after watching. i used to get nosebleeds as a kid and after seeing the nosebleed segments of the movie i was just sickened! I just watched it again for the first time in 14 years, now 28, and was still very frightened....how about the hypnotherapy session where she remembers the first abduction experience...kid leading the two young girls up the path in the woods to the ufo...oh my gosh! that was just terrifying. i've been recommending this on horror message board to everyone looking for a very scary movie, but it's pretty obscure. got it on vhs at 'eide's' in Pittsburgh for 4 or 5 bucks or something like that. if anyone knows the names of other movies like this one send them out...peace.

[–] the_pc_police 18 years ago

That UFO model was cool.

I wish I had it.

[–] tagster 18 years ago

Another movie like this is 'Communion' with Christopher Walken. It's similiar in that Walken plays a writer who starts to remember alien abductions...it's also based on a true story (book by the same name). There's a scene where Walken wakes up in the night and sees a 'grey' peeking around the dresser in his bedroom that always scares the bejesus outta me!

...and nobody beats The Riz!

[–] btvsbt 18 years ago

Oh my god. I remember the exact scene too. lol I was about....7-10 when I saw the movie on tv one night. I was never into ufo's or aliens, but I saw that movie and to this day all I can remember about it is what you guys have mentioned above; the woman waking up and thinking a construction crew is outside her home, but they're aliens, and they come through the walls. And if memory serves me right, the scene ends with her screaming/hiding under the kitchen table as they approach her? That's all I remember about this movie! It totally freaked me out and to this day aliens [grey's] scare me. lol But I still bought it on DVD! haha

[–] BladePuppet 18 years ago

I realize that this is a very old thread, but I'm posting in hopes of someone who is able to help reading it. Does anyone at all know where I can find a dvd of this if I live in the US? I am really wanting to watch it now! I remember very vaguely that it scared the shhhhhh!!!! outta me in only the first scene! I very hazily remember two little girls walking in daylight in the woods or something and all of a sudden there was a shot of an alien turning their head very fast towards the camera, and they had red hair. I was instantly terrified and my dad had to turn it off. That's the only part I ever saw, but since then I've always wanted to see the whole thing. Is this memory accurate at all?

I know Kung Fu.

[–] tullock 18 years ago

Lots of copies on E Bay.

[–] ross_beamish 18 years ago

It's so funny most people posting on here saw it when they were young kids. I saw it when I was about 12, just about the time I saw 'Fire in the Sky' and it scared the *beep* out of me. That scene when one of the characters follows the little girl to the lake in the forrest, and she turns around and is a half alien nearly made me crap my pants.

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[–] BladePuppet 18 years ago

I think that movie was called Roswell or Roswell coverup. I actually have that taped from T.V. It made me a little less scared of Aliens, because the alien went on an adventure with them. He called himself DOS after the program. Look up Roswell on here, I'm sure you'll find it.

I know Kung Fu.

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[–] Ssilverhaze 17 years ago

Ohmygod!!! this is my first post on IMDB just for this movie and JUST for this topic, i too remember this movie and ONLY the scene with the maintenance crew! scared the hell out of me to when i was like 12-13 lol, finally found this movie!

[–] filterfan86-1 17 years ago

I remmeber seeing it when I was a kid back in '92 and being scared sh*tless when I saw the little girls in the woods scene*shudders*. Anyway I rented the movie again 5 years later and was entertained and intrigued by the movie because I was older and understood it more. Yall may find this movie in old video stores or at a flea market. They may have it on dvd some where but you may have to order it online. I would'nt mind seeing it again myself.

My mom's been *beep* a dead guy for 30 years. I call him dad. _Clerks

[–] Beremith 17 years ago

Hehe sounds familiar. I remember that it scared the *beep* out of me and my brothers when were kids.

[–] filterfan86-1 17 years ago

Im glad im not alone cause that scene and the alien poking its head behind the door in communion made me afraid of aliens for years.

My mom's been *beep* a dead guy for 30 years. I call him dad. _Clerks

[–] zeta1983-1 17 years ago

You can watch it here- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMKRrgHvyOs&feature=PlayList&p=B36CB3209B5EC4C9&index=17 if you don't mind Spanish subtitles and the words DocLottaLove at the top. I had seen the second half of this in 1998 but missed the first half. They never repeated it either so it was good to see the full movie, subtitles aside ;).

[–] glassrose385 16 years ago

I was remembering this movie earlier today. The first time I watched it I was 7 and scared me especially the girls in the woods scenes. I remember in the late 90's Lifetime aired it and it wasn't as scary as the first time I saw it.

[–] Apogee_ 16 years ago

Haha, man. I've been reading all the other posts. Seems like a whole generation of kids have been traumatized by this movie. I saw this movie on TV when I was about 7 or 8. I vividly remember the scenes with the woman calling to complain about the "construction crew," the part where she cooks an egg and has a flashback where she sees the eye of an alien, the scene where she gets nosebleed in the supermarket and later on where the doctor pulls a computer chip out of her nose. I remember pretending not to be disturbed by it (otherwise my parents wouldn't have allowed me to keep watching), but it scared the HELL out of me and it freaked me out for years. I think the only other movie that had such an impact on me as a kid has to be "Stephen King's It," a made-for-television miniseries.

[–] smackajacka 16 years ago

I'm amazed as to why everybody, myself included, only seem to remember specific scenes in great detail...the 2 girls chasing the 'boy' in the woods who stands with a UFO in front of him and that HORRIBLY SCARY face when he turns around, the maintenance crew at night, the nose bleed scene and the doc pulling the chip out....I cannot beleive my dad even let me watch something like that with him at the age of 7!! Just out of curiosity, does anyone remember the ending where the woman is shown her 'child' aboard the spacecraft? That seems to stick out in my mind quite well.

(H)Astila Vista Baby

[–] kitchenaut-1 15 years ago

This film scared me as a 13-year-old. I just thought it was going to a sci-fi film, and had no idea about alien abductions. I had a shock!

I was actually quite scared to be up late and of the dark for sometime after this film, and the scenes people mentioned here do stick in the mind, because they are always cut to very quickly. The creatures appearing through the wall messed me up for nights on end, hahaha!

[–] grapplernz 15 years ago

I especially remember the scene of the little girl that gets lead into the forest by the waving child.