Trailer
Plot summary
In 1985, Whitley Strieber lives in Manhattan with his wife, Anne, and their son, Andrew, and his writing career is going well. A dream wakes him with the feeling that another person is in the room. He travels with Anne, Andrew and their friends Alex and Sarah to the family cabin in the woods, where the intruder alarm goes off, a face watches from the doorway and a bright light fills the windows, waking Andrew, Alex and Sarah while Anne sleeps through it. Back in New York, nightmares and visions of strange beings disturb Whitley, upset Andrew and strain the marriage.
Cast
- Joel Carlsonas Andrew Strieber
- Aileen Fitzpatrickas Mother
- R.J. Milleras Father
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Communion (1989)
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- Musician Eric Clapton co-composed the film's score with Alan Clark, but no soundtrack album was released until 2010, when former Oingo Boingo guitarist Steve Bartek issued the main and end-credit themes.
- Strieber insisted the film be made independently, worried that a major studio would turn his personal story into a special-effects-driven horror film instead of a character study.
- Strieber said crew members mocked him on set over the autobiographical nature of the story, later summing up the experience as a mixed bag of people.
- Strieber himself dismissed the film in an interview, saying its reading of events was too literal compared with his book: the beings were very solid, but his glimpses of them were brief, and there was too much light on them.
- Author Whitley Strieber based the film directly on his own claimed real-life encounter with alien 'visitors', with Christopher Walken cast to portray Strieber himself.
