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Fire in the Sky (1993)

 
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 17, 2019 1:39 pm    Post subject: Fire in the Sky (1993) Reply with quote

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Tales of alien abduction — in books and films — were popular during the seventies, because that's when all these cases seemed to be happening. These have taken on the aspect of sci-fi versions of urban legends, including all the lurid stuff about aliens experimenting on their captives, such as the infamous rectal probe.

So, this film is a very late entry in the field, about a supposed abduction in 1975. The victim is one of a small group of loggers, real-life guy Walton (D.B. Sweeney). They see what looks like an alien ship hovering above them on one of their regular trips to the woods to do some work.

Walton makes the error in judgment by walking out of their truck and behaving as if he's entranced by the ship's lights. When it looks like something zaps him, the others take off in the truck. His best friend (Robert Patrick) decides to go back minutes later, but Walton is gone from the spot. The other loggers are played by Henry Thomas (E.T.), Peter Berg and Craig Sheffer.


_________Fire In The Sky Alien Abduction Scene


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Walton remains missing for 5 days. Of course, the law (represented mainly by James Garner) is involved almost immediately and the obvious conclusion by most is that Walton met with foul play at the hand of one or more of the group of loggers who were there.

However, Walton turns up alive, though dehydrated and missing his clothes and some of his sanity. We find out what happened to him via flashbacks in his own mind, of the interior of the alien ship, where the aliens conducted their experiments on him — sticking him with needles and who-knows-what.

Though his reappearance does reinforce the stories of his buddies, it doesn't explain why he was left alive, since the flashback also shows other victims of the aliens as being dead.

The incident also creates a chasm between most of the loggers, permanently dividing them over who did the wrong thing.

To me, as shown, Walton brought this on himself and the others understandably panicked. Sweeney looks dumbfounded throughout the film, before & after, but maybe he was ideal for the part, because that's the way he usually is.

Of course, the entire incident can still be a fabrication, though it is disclosed that the group passed another lie-detector test years later. In most obvious ways, the film is a throwback to seventies sci-fi cinema.

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 03, 2020 5:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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IMDB has one very interesting trivia items for this production. Very Happy
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~ The abduction portrayed in the movie actually had nothing to do with Walton's account.

After being struck by the light, Walton remembers waking up on a table surrounded by three aliens, whom he described thusly: "Their bald heads were disproportionately large for their puny bodies. They had bulging, oversized craniums, a small jaw structure, and an underdeveloped appearance to their features that was almost infantile. Their thin-lipped mouths were narrow; I never saw them open.

Lying close to their heads on either side were tiny crinkled lobes of ears. Their miniature rounded noses had small oval nostrils. The only facial feature that didn't appear underdeveloped were those incredible eyes! Those glistening orbs had brown irises twice the size of those of a normal human eye's, nearly an inch in diameter! The iris was so large that even parts of the pupils were hidden by the lids, giving the eyes a certain catlike appearance.

There was very little of the white part of the eye showing. They had no lashes and no eyebrows."

According to Walton's account, he leaped up from the table, grabbed an instrument on a nearby table, wielded it as a weapon, and swung it at the aliens. They filed out of the room.

Walton walked into a room with a high backed chair in the middle and took a seat. Upon operating a set of controls, he deduced that he was in some sort of observatory.

Suddenly, a man in a blue suit with a glass helmet came through a doorway. When Walton spoke to him, he didn't respond, he merely guided Walton through the doorway.

The wordless man lead Walton through a doorway, out of a saucer-like object, into a hangar filled with other saucers, down a hallway, and into a room that featured three more humans.

Walton's questions continued to go unanswered as they motioned for him to lie down on the table. One of the 'humans' — a woman — placed a mask over his face and he immediately passed out.

All of this was consciously recollected by Walton, and when undergoing hypnotic regression soon after the incident, he revealed no further information,=, and hw stated that he felt as though delving any deeper would kill him.


Note from me: The man's story, as described above, is actually impressive — not like the totally wacky yarns we often get from backwoods rednecks who describe the colorful uniforms of their abductors and the sight-seeing trips around the solar system they were taken on! Rolling Eyes

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 03, 2020 9:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A short film on first contact...And anal probing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpKjuDm1P0c

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 03, 2020 10:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tracy Torme wrote the screenplay for "Fire in the Sky."

His screenplay for the film was nominated for the 1993 Saturn Award.

Tracy created the sf television series "Sliders" (1995~2000) along with Robert K. Weiss.

Tracy also wrote for "Saturday Night Live," "Star Trek: The Next Generation," "The Outer Limits" (1995~2002), "Odyssey 5," and "Carnivale."

Tracy also wrote "Intruders" which was a 1992 four-hour CBS miniseries about alien abduction.
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