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Fire in the Sky (1993)
Director: Robert Lieberman
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
This modest sci-fi movie treads the same ground as Communion, but more purposefully. The small community of Snowflake, Arizona, is thrown into confusion when loggers return from the forest claiming one of their number has been taken away in a spacecraft. A sceptical special investigator (Garner) shares the locals' doubts, believing the story is a cover for murder...until the missing man (Sweeney) turns up with his own incredible story. The imagery is familiar: scientific experiments in which orifices are penetrated, and womblike interiors representing primal fears about the integrity of the body. Surely this is inner, not outer space. Even so, the handling of the small-town social dynamics, the media circus and the scary special effects provide an engrossing build-up and satisfying pay-off.Author: NF
Cast & crew
Director: Robert Lieberman
Producer: Joe Wizan, Todd Black
Cast: DB Sweeney, Robert Patrick, James Garner, Craig Sheffer, Peter Berg, Henry Thomas full cast
Genre(s): Science Fiction
Duration: 109 mins
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