It's almost impressive that every single line in this movie is delivered so poorly. There is one good sequence in this that nearly makes it worth watching, but this movie is not one you should go out of your way to see. I feel like there is a hidden Brokeback Mountain-esque love triangle sub-plot in here that would have been a much more interesting story to tell.
I mean it makes sense why they wouldn't believe the stories that they gave for why Travis was missing. Outside of the litigation and arguing from the town, the only worthwhile seeing is towards the end.
Except for the alien scene, the movie is boring.
Features one of the most terrifying sequences in movie history. It comes out of nowhere and you will remember it forever. You have been warned...but you will love it!
Watched this back in 1993 or 1994 on Cinemax I believe, always stuck with me and the rewatch was good. This is a good script, well acted. Production is of course not much, but it was still a good watch. The true story is even better.
Plot sounded interesting but was quite bored throughout the movie. Just never connected with it but the actors are good and I didn't hate it either, I guess.
I never heard of this movie. I found it occupying the #1 spot in a "scariest horror movies" list made by the admin of a horror themed Facebook page. On that very same list, Insidious was in last place, Drag me to Hell was near the top, and Sinister was absent. I was already suspicious of said list, by then. Still, the comments were praising Fire in the Sky so much, saying things like "oh, yeah, Fire in the Sky, totally creepy, that eye scene still gives me the chills"... "OK, despiste the truly badly compiled list, must be a good movie, then, judging from all these comments, so let's watch it", I naively thought to myself.
The movie is absolutely, gut wrenching boring for the vast majority of it. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, ever happens, besides some hillbillies looking sketchy while being accused of murder by the town's people, and everyone still being a terrible actor at it. There are only, I think, three rather short scenes (except for the last one) involving extra-terrestrial stuff and only the last one is mildly (emphasis on "mildly") unsettling. By that time I was thinking to myself "what f*cking eye scene?! Where's that chilling eye scene I saw everyone talking about in the comments?!". By then I realised I was watching a fluke. The aliens look like your average Monday morning worker. The only cool thing, for me, about this movie was the actually reasonable concept that the typical alien figure that people have been describing throughout history are actually suits with aliens inside them (they show the suits later in the movie).
If you're looking for horror, avoid this movie. If you're looking for sci-fi, avoid this movie. If you're looking for a genuinely unsettling movie with aliens, go watch Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County (not a great movie, but a way better experience than this one tried to deliver).
This one's a bad egg. If you, like me, were dragged into this one because of some hype you read online, you've been warned.
Of course, I stopped following that Facebook page that started this for me. Those guys clearly don't have a clue about horror (and, to be perfectly clear, this isn't a horror movie and isn't even remotely scary or creepy).
It’s an interesting story if you’re into the whole alien abduction stuff. The scenes that take place in the ship are memorable from childhood viewing.
Shout by whitsbrainVIP 6BlockedParent2022-01-15T16:28:53Z
The reputation of this movie has been built on the final 20 minutes: a truly frightening alien experimentation scene. However there is a good story here and some pretty sharp dialogue and characterizations. The mountain setting and the small town feel really saturates the film. You don't have to be a UFO believer to appreciate "Fire In The Sky".