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  Review by Ian West ★★★★½ 12

  Surreal Alien encounters are some of my favorite scenes in any movie—pure dreamy nightmare projections shrouded in fog and sensuality. 

  That slow zoom toward the piece of furniture and what we see is so fucking creepy—if I saw this as a kid I’m pretty sure it would have scarred me for life. Walken really shines in this as well... balancing his signature quirks quite nicely and his dancing with wirey yet smooth aliens and interactions with the little hooded guys are priceless.

  The true story behind this is super interesting, others here on lb have documented it far better than I ever could.

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  Review by pd187 ★★★★★ 11

  "you expect answers so quickly, but we don't even know the questions yet"

  faces of god, masks of god, some of the best interiors in all cinema. one of the only movies that "gets it" 🚪👽

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  Review by Scumbalina 4

  I haven't read Whitley Strieber's book, I'm sure it's remarkably different from Walken's interpretation. Even before the anal probing, he's nut. From his first breath, he's out of his mind. His approach appears to be mostly ad-libbing. It's a combination of the Jeff Goldblum cadence with a touch of William Shatner's Shakespearean stagger. It works here.

  Mora nailed the dream-like atmosphere and simplicity of the aliens. There are moments that are truly terrifying. Allowing Walken to be free was a bold choice and created a fascinating if not epileptic character study. Perhaps he didn't take it as seriously as he could, but the end result is better than if he had. His behavior on the space ship was a bit…

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  Review by Slig001 ★★★ 1

  Communion is based on Whitley Strieber's book about his own alleged encounters with aliens. I've never read the book so I've no idea how close to the source material this movie is....but certainly it is completely off the wall crazy. Christopher Walken stars as the writer, and certainly this film couldn't have been this weird without him. Apparently Walken improvised a lot of his scenes and it shows. The movie really is all over the place - there doesn't seem to be any real overarching point to it all, though certainly the film deserves a lot of credit for going all out with the alien abductions, which are easily the highlight of the film. Director Philippe Mora is no stranger…

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  Review by Matt Winfield ★★★ 2

  🌞Daily Horror Hunt #24 – June 2020🌞
  16. A film featuring Christopher Walken.

  Yeah, when Christopher Walken tells you he's been abducted by aliens... you better believe it!

  This is Walken doing his best Walken impression, so fucking crazy, and if you can dig that vibe you're in for a time, I love it! There's just so many great scenes, and great lines spit out of his mouth that I can't even jumble my thoughts together. This has to be experienced to be understood. Like c'mon, he dances with aliens!... HE DANCES WITH ALIENS!! From the very first horrific, unexplainable abduction, all the way up to the laughing fit filled finale. Communion is a beautiful voyage through the bizarre, the absurd, and the odd — And I'm not talkin' bout the aliens!

  What a strange, strange movie...

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  Review by belial_carboni ★★★½ 2

  "THE TRUE STORY OF ONE MAN'S TERRIFYING JOURNEY INTO THE UNKNOWN!"

  Love that intro sequence with the above shots of NY at night and the squeeling 80s guitar! That's how you start your dang movie! Which really sets the unique vibe of this moody little sci-fi creepfest. I'm pretty sure I saw this on TV back in the day as it felt vaguely familiar. Almost like a childhood dream. It just has that indefinable nostalgic coziness.

  A family experiences bizarre phenomena when visiting their isolated cabin. Bright flashing lights and a strange dream shared by everyone. The Dad (Christopher Walken) questions his sanity when he starts experiencing strange visions of other worldly beings and experimental procedures. But was it his…

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  Review by single white femalien

  those little dancing aliens may legitimately be cinema's peak

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  Review by Ben Peterson ★★★★½ 2

  This movie has a long sequence that borders the line so hard between being one of the most ridiculous things I've ever seen and the most frightening - but it's 100% awesome. And it was absolutely worth the effort in tracking this sucker down. Walken gives the exact kind of performance you'd want from him in an alien abduction story, but you aren't actually prepared for what happens. Even though there are many movies focused on this subject, this is one of a kind. Great late 80s score too.

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  Review by Stefan Birgir Stefans ★★★ 1

  Those who claim to have been abducted by alien beings often describe what can be called “high strangeness,” not just during the abduction but before it. High strangeness is what is sounds like, some very weird and trippy shit. It’s what we experience when we are dreaming—nothing makes sense and things just happen. If I remember correctly, Betty and Barney Hill (the first documented case of alien abduction) saw men wearing Nazi uniforms before they were taken aboard the spaceship. If abductions are real, they seem to be either very simply psychologically challenging, with the mind trying to grasp what’s going on, or they seem to put the abductee in some dreamlike state; perhaps they even connect them to the…

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  Review by Naughty aka Juli Norwood ½ 2

  Good grief!!! I couldn't wait for this crapfest to end!

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  Review by FakeVoorhees ★★★★ 1

  I used to be funny. I used to be able to focus. I can't do anything. It's like I can't see anything but the inside of my own head.

  After being abducted by aliens, Christopher Walken begins feeling and acting strange as he comes to terms with what he experienced. At times, the movie treats the changes in Walken as a serious depiction of how depression can impact the whole family. At others, it veers into surreal dream-like alien encounters with Walken high fiving aliens. Somehow, as odd as it gets, the slide into weirdness never feels jarring. Walken's a great fit for the strange places this goes and the movie features some creepy alien encounters, wild dream imagery and fun practical effects. Plus, a great scene where Walken gets scared of a Halloween mask.

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  Review by Dave Jackson 1

  Communion is a fucking NIGHTMARE. Both hysterical and terrifying. And relentlessly insane. It starts out trying to do the whole Spielbergian family unit thing. Only Philippe Mora isn't Spielberg. And Christopher Walken is doing and saying WHATEVER HE WANTS. I really can't do justice to how utterly wild Walken is in this. Flicking his silly hat around. Mumbling. Muttering. Laughing. Clapping. Dancing. Kissing aliens. Freaking out. Emphasising all the wrong words. It's so so great. The alien stuff is bananas too. The anal probe scene is honestly one of the strangest, funniest, and most disturbing things I've ever seen. This film is absolutely fucking impossible to rate. It's awful and brilliant all at once. One of the weirdest commercial films ever made.