Fire in the Sky (1993)

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• familiar s

  
  Allegedly based on true story, this one's fairly watchable.

• Anthony L

  
  A must for UFO/B-movie fans and anyone who wants to believe!

• Curtis L

  
  Pretty slow for a while, but once the guy starts to recall his abduction, the awesome fx commence. Pretty twisted, I'm sad it didn't comprise the entire movie.

• Tim S

  
  Scares the hell out of me, even to this day.

• Dean M

  
  Unbelievable! This is based on a true story, most of the film is banal in the extreme, only coming to life in the terrifying sequence where I find out what really happened to a logger claims to have been kidnapped by a flying saucer. Believe it or not!

• Lafe F

  
  An ordinary man is abducted by aliens and violated. When he returns home, nobody believes his tale. He is traumatized for life. Disturbing. Raw. Ouch! Well-done but hard to watch.

• xGary X

  
  Alien abduction story presented in documentary style that will appeal to fans of The X-Files. Like me.

• Steve B

  
  Not as good on subsequent viewings as I remember it being.

• Sam E

  
  Fire in the Sky was really well-done and is probably one of the best alien movies I've ever seen. The entire flashback of Walton's on-board experience was great and the fact that it wasn't totally unrealistic only made it that much creepier.

• Joseph E

  
  Fire in The sky is a 1993 film based om the book under the same title by a man named Travis Walton. He was a logger suspossedly abducted by a glowing orange light(Or in lament terms ufo) in the mid 1970's in Snowflake, Arizona near the white mountians. I liked how it started… More
  Fire in The sky is a 1993 film based om the book under the same title by a man named Travis Walton. He was a logger suspossedly abducted by a glowing orange light(Or in lament terms ufo) in the mid 1970's in Snowflake, Arizona near the white mountians. I liked how it started out. The guys driving thier truck, racing down the road in shock. they go to a bar trying to think of a way to tell the authorities what happened. Eventually they all are sitting down getting ready to try to explain what happened to the police. It then switches to the morning before. It starts out with getting thier job started early so they can get alot more down so they do not lose thier contract. Like any Sheriff, of course he doesn't believe them.He thibks they murdered him. He thibks thier story is frick'n bullsh*t! Now of course everyone would. Aliens? The bad thing is for them, they passed a lie detector test. Well actualy two of them. Well the movie keeps switching back and forth between the previous day, the day after, and the day they found him. Also the time aboard the ship, that Travis belives he was on. After the light hits Travis and throws him on the ground they think he is dead. They flee thinking the glowing orange light is coming after them. When Mike returns he can't find him.(the others waited on the highway farther back) They put out a search party, but there was no luck in finding Travis. He doesn't even show up until about a week later. Severly emaciated and naked. he is shakened, and scared sh*tless. Walton is also very, very thirsty(We'll get back to that) Most of the people thought it was Dallis He was mean and had a record. he messed around with Travis alot. He didn't stick around at that point in real life because of that. they thought it would be all pinned on him. he was even hessitent to take a lie detector at first. Robert Patrick(Ironicly a future X-Files star) was good as Travis's best friend Mike. He was edgy, and was very frustrated. His best friend may or may have been killed, or even abducted Every one is even blaming him and the other loggers. To top it all off his wife is b*tching and complaining about the bills and house, and what the people have been saying around town. Suddenly Mike get's a collect call. From who he thinks is Travis. It was from a gas station telephone. His wife , one of his logging buddies, and Travis's older brother go looking for him. Whent they find him jhe is really out of it. scared to death. he is hurting, and desperately needs somne water. it looks as if he had been starved and gone for a long time. more than just a week. Travis Walton (played by the undserrated and phenomeonal D.B. Sweeney) starts having flashbacks of the time aboard the ship as he is being loaded in the ambulence(atleast during the movie that is when it is happening to him). He starts freaking out. He starts seeing the ship and the extraterestrials carting him down a long wierd set of hallways. When mike trys talking to him in the hospital room, he is like a non-respondant mute. Travis feels that if they had never left, none of this would of happened. He wouldn't of had to undergo that traumatizing experince. Now of course everyone says that scene on the ufo is a nightnmar inducing scene. A scene done by Industrial light and Magic, that is one of the finest scenes ever to grace the movie screen. Now I would sure be damn lieng if I didn't agree. It is by far one of the most horrifying scenes in any movie ever. You may think some of the X-Files stuff was good, and really visually awesome. This isn't no episode of The X-Files(Yes, I loved that show) This was beyond that. That scene was so extreme I think it is really well done. It scared me a bit . No I am not kidding. That is a scene from a movie I will never forget. Never. The movie ended on a sentimental note. I couldn't say it was much of an ending, but I could say it was a good film excluding that. I'm guessing that even if it started out with a bang, and ended with a whisper, it didn't matter. The whole movie in between was really good. True Fact:In February 1993, Cyrus Gilson re-administered another polygraph to Mike Rogers,Travis Walton, and Allan Dallis whose earlier test proved inconclusive. This time they all passed. "While most Alien films waste time on the main threshold of Aliens and ufo's, Fire in The Sky mainly focuses on the five guys and what happend while Travis was missing, rather then just on Travis and his abduction, leaving it to just one major scene that will for burn in the mind forever, and terrify the hearts of people everywhere." I liked this film, and I reccomend it to any Sci-Fi fan. Also, if you have been looking for that perfect Alien, and/or abduction movie, then this film is it. The only saddening fact is well, it's based on a true story. Wether it is true or false is still hard to deciede. Plus with everyone passing polygraphs, it's hard to know for sure if they aren't telling the truth. Oh, and good news guys! They just added this film for instant streaming on netflix. Enjoy it in HD!

• Chad R

  
  Liked it as a kid when I thought it was actually real...I guess it is based on a true story but the actual true story is... Spoilers ahead... That the lazy ass guys said " I'm a lumber Jack and it's ok. I work all night and I sleep all day...". Or something like… More
  Liked it as a kid when I thought it was actually real...I guess it is based on a true story but the actual true story is... Spoilers ahead... That the lazy ass guys said " I'm a lumber Jack and it's ok. I work all night and I sleep all day...". Or something like that...anyway these idiots thought it would be cool to play a trick on their buds and take a few days off. It all got blown out of proportion and they decided to stick to their story and play it off as long as they could.

• Lee K

  
  I have always wondered about life in space? These movies seem to trip me out, probably becuase their is a part of me that believes this stuff actually happens? Who knows? A good film all the same and very intense. Great performances from Robert Patrick and D.b. sweeney!

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