Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Movie review: Fire in the sky


My third review on alien abduction flicks - can't get enough of them. This is actually one of my favorite movies on the topic due to several reasons which I'll carefully explain - let's begin, shall we?
Fire in the Sky  is a 1993 movie about six friends cutting wood in the forests of Arizona. As you might have guessed, the movie doesn't stop there - the loggers witness unusual red lights in the sky and investigate the issue. It turns out they have just made first contact with extra-terrestrials, which results in one of the men being beamed into the hostile spaceship.
As his friends return to the town, they face several problems explaining what exactly happened - mostly because the police believes the whole alien abduction story is less plausible than the suspicion that they just murdered their co-worker...who wouldn't?
It's quite unusual for a movie about alien abductions to focus this much not on who's been abducted but who witnessed it and has to deal with their lack of credibility. In this case, it works quite well: The group gets into some serious trouble, and just as every hope seems to be lost, their abducted friend suddenly returns to earth with some nasty stories to tell.
Would this face lie to you if it said "I come in peace"?

Fire in the sky actually mixes two stories, one for each side on the incident. At first, you get to see the loggers struggle with everyone calling them murderers, while the second half of the movie tells the story of what happened in the alien spaceship. There's a huge contrast between those two stories: While the part about murder suspicions is more of a drama, the spaceship part shows drastical images of gruesome experiments conducted on human beings - some of which are quite graphic.
The nicest thing about all this is that the movie stays believable the whole time - you can relate to all the characters and there's not much of a happy time to be had on the spaceship; all of the protagonists act and react reasonable and realistic.
In conclusion, I'm fairly satisfied with this film. It delivers many creepy moments and the depiction of the alien spacecraft will simply send a chill down your spine - what more could you want?
Me hiding under my blanket after watching this film

16 comments:

  1. Do you know where abouts on where to find it nowadays?

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  2. The first time I name the movie in this article provides an amazon link (if you hover your mouse over "Fire in the sky"). It's a pretty cheap DVD nowadays.

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  3. You got to love those old sci-fi movies... :)

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  4. The thing is, if an alien species from another galaxy DID reach us, it's pretty much guaranteed that they are many many lightyears ahead of us technology-wise

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  5. It's nearly as old as me.But back in old days, they used to have much more imagination than today, you know, those all vampire movies with gay princes...

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  6. Good find, will see if it is on Netflix.

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  7. Great find and great review, will have to give this a watch!
    Following.

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  8. Looks nice.
    It shall have to remain in queue until I've seen quite a lot of other movies though

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  9. Everyone is giving positive reviews but... isnt this scary? :o

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  10. Bought it, now just need to see it.

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  11. love alien movies, i need to check this one out hope its on netflix.

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  12. Seems like it could be a good movie, I'll have to watch it sometime.

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