Five UFO movies based on real events
Five UFO movies based on real events
Hollywood extraterrestrial films have been inspired by UFO stories since the beginning of the modern era of UFOs over seventy years ago, but, to date, only a handful of movies have been directly based on UFO incidents in the real life. Here are 5 of the best ...
On the left: the real Betty and Barney Hill. On the right: The Hills as represented by Estelle Parsons and James Earl Jones on the screen.
The UFO incident (1975)
One of the first cases of recorded extraterrestrial abduction, and possibly the most famous, is that of Betty and Barney Hill, a middle-aged couple who came across a UFO on the night of September 19, 1961 while driving late at night. night in New Hampshire. The couple claimed to have witnessed a disk-shaped ship at the bottom of the road right in front of them. Barney even described seeing a series of humanoid figures staring at him through his windows. Little else was consciously remembered. The rest of his story would emerge later through dramatic hypnosis sessions with the respected Boston psychiatrist Dr. Benjamin Simon, who published a popular book about the incident in 1966.
In 1975, the story of Hill's abduction became even more famous when it was adapted for television as a full-length film starring Estelle Parsons and James Earl Jones as Betty and Barney. With a teleplay based directly on the recorded hypnosis sessions of Dr. Simon with the couple, The UFO incident It was remarkably true to the real account of the capture by occupants of gray-skinned saucers in September 1961.
Another film, the little known Italian production. Eyes behind the starsHe had touched the topic of kidnapping three years before 1972, but The UFO incident it was the first direct treatment of a real-life case and the first to bring together many of the now more common themes and motives of abduction experiences, including medical examination, lost time and hypnosis. The aliens of the film, although they are small with large, bald eyes, have normal proportions and are not as gray as they would be later on Spielberg's screen. Close Encounters of the Third Type as decidedly smaller, thinner beings with significantly larger heads and bigger and blacker eyes.
The UFO incident It remains one of the best Hollywood treatments of a true life kidnapping experience. It functions primarily as a powerful human drama, driven by the obvious commitment of Parsons and Jones in excellent central performances like Hills. Despite its fantastic theme, the film remains sober at all times.
Communion (1989)
Whitley Strieber's 1987 book on his alleged encounters with non-human entities was an instant sales success and, to date, has sold more than two million copies worldwide. The adaptation of the 1989 film starred Christopher Walken in an incredibly maniacal performance as Strieber, and Lindsay Crouse as his late wife, Anne.
Both the book and the film focus primarily on an experience that occurred on December 26, 1985, when Strieber believes he was kidnapped in his cabin in New York State while on a short break with his family and some close friends. Strieber had almost no conscious memory of what had happened to him, but in the months that followed he began to suffer an emotional and psychological burden impossible to trace.
In the movie, we follow Strieber as he reluctantly accepts regression hypnotically by psychiatrist Janet Duffey (played by Frances Sternhagen). It is through these sessions that the strange events of that night return to face him, events that involve small thin beings with large oval heads and large hypnotic black eyes.
Communion It was the first Hollywood entertainment product that got involved with the most surreal aspects of the kidnapping phenomenon. With a script written by Strieber himself, the film captures the tonal essence of his book, if not its psychological and metaphysical complexity. It is a flawed film, but it dares to show abduction by the puzzling, hallucinatory, deeply troubling, intellectually challenging and spiritually transforming phenomenon that is reported. This is a film that, for the most part, is firmly rooted in our worldly world. The thought of non-human intelligences breaking through in this reality from a strange realm is psychologically discordant, both for Strieber and for the viewer.
Despite its shortcomings, Communion It's still a deeply creepy movie. It is also important, not only for his ambition, but also to popularize even more the image of the now iconic gray alien, an image that first appeared on the cover of Strieber's best-selling book and would later be featured on the VHS cover. of the movie. looking hypnotically in the eyes of millions of customers in video rental stores around the world.
Intruders (1992)
1987 saw Budd Hopkins' publication Intruders: the incredible visits at Copley Woods. The book investigated the claims of several alleged abductees by extraterrestrials, but was more specifically related to the case of Debbie Jordan-Kauble (known in the book as "Kathie Davis"). Jordan-Kauble described being abducted from her parents' home in June 1983 and taken aboard an egg-shaped ship that had landed on the outside. He claimed to have been impregnated by his alien captors, who later removed the fetus and finally presented him with his human-alien hybrid son.
Hopkins Intruders Later, screenwriter Tracy Tormé would adapt the book for television, son of the legendary jazz singer and musician Mel Tormé. The 1992 miniseries (which was then rebroadcast as a movie) dealt less with the history of Jordan-Kauble and more with the wider kidnapping phenomenon, as understood by the main researchers in the field, namely Hopkins and Harvard. the psychiatrist John Mack, who served as consultants in the production.
Intruders It was broadcast on CBS from May 17 to 19, 1992 and was generally well received by critics. It is still important because of its reflective and comprehensive treatment of the phenomenon of abduction, and to establish itself convincingly in a normal world, occasionally invaded by a profound and, at times, terrifying non-human intelligence. He explored many themes and motives common to abduction accounts, including intrusive tests, alien impregnation, hybrid children, screen memories and hypnotic regression. Tormé is convinced that his show had a considerable cultural impact, which brought a previously dark UFOlogical facet to the masses. He told me of Intruders: "I really think that this project was part of the process of people who became aware of how these things [abductions] I supposedly work. "
Fire in the sky (1993)
In 1975, Travis Walton, a logger from Snowflake, Arizona, claimed to have been taken aboard a flying saucer and to have interacted with two different species of aliens. What distinguishes Walton's story from countless other tales of cosmic abduction is that his apparent abduction was witnessed, in part, by the other six men on his logging team. That night they returned to the city at full speed to inform the bewildered authorities of how a UFO had hit Travis in front of his eyes. Assuming he was dead, the terrified loggers had left his colleague where he lay, the saucer protruding above his lifeless body.
A storm of confusion, anger and accusations would soon descend on the sleepy town of Snowflake. The loggers, who informed the police that their friend had been kidnapped by a UFO, were immediately considered suspects of the disappearance and possible murder of Walton. After no less than five days, Walton returned. They found him in a telephone booth about five kilometers from Snowflake, huddled and shaking. When they took him back to the city, he began to babble about strange creatures with large eyes. He supposed that he had left only a couple of hours and was stunned in a prolonged silence when he was told that almost a week had passed.
With solid performances of D.B. Sweeney as Travis and Robert Patrick as the lumber crew leader Mike Rogers, the Fire in the sky The film was a reasonably accurate account of Walton's experience, that is, until his final act, which notoriously struck the flesh of Walton's encounter out of all recognition. The human-like beings described by Travis and his ride with him in a spaceport were nowhere to be seen in the film. Walton's scary grays were replaced by hideous goblin beings who literally dragged the woodcutter like a sack of breakwaters through their rotten rotten spaceship, all wet tunnels and dripping embryo sacks, before sticking it to a table with a suggestive membrane and subject it to graphic torture with a thick needle to the eyeball.
The film divided the opinion on its premiere. He returned his budget, but little else. The legendary Roger Ebert praised the final sequence of the film as credible, writing: "The scenes within the craft are really very good. "They represent convincingly a reality that I had not seen before in movies, and for once I thought I was seeing something really strange, and not just the ghosts of a stage decorator." : "The film ends with an unfinished and frustrating note".
Roswell (1994)
This 1994 television movie was Hollywood's first in-depth treatment of the infamous Roswell incident in July 1947, in which it is said that an alien ship and bodies crashed into the New Mexico desert and were recovered by the US military. For the writer / producer Paul Davids, the purpose of his film was not only to entertain, but to educate, to take what many consider the last UFO cover-up to greater public attention as a powerful and understandable narrative.
Roswell It was also one of the first films to include a direct reference to Area 51. The secret base appears fleetingly in a sequence in which a mysterious member of the government (played by Martin Sheen) describes the Roswell whistleblower Jesse Marcel (Kyle MacLachlan) the events that took place in the months and years after the fall of the dish.
In a 2014 interview, I asked Davids if the word "Roswell" would be so culturally resonant today if he had not contextualized it so memorably in his 1994 movie. "Not so much," he answered, though he acknowledged that The files x, which premiered a year before his film, also played an important role. "But The files x it was not just Roswell, "he stressed," I was everywhere dealing with many different things. Roswell was just a small part of that. "
Today, Davids considers the Roswell Incident to be a "national institution ... massively rooted in public consciousness, like any other history in the history of our country." It is difficult to discuss that claim and it is even more difficult to underestimate the fundamental role played by the Davids film in this integration process.
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