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On December 26th while on vacation with his family, novelist Whitley Strieber (Christopher Walken) has a strange nightmare. In the following days, plagued by painful headaches, his behavior becomes increasingly erratic. Later, under hypnosis, he realizes that his dream was not a dream at all. Whitley Strieber's bestselling (third largest paperback sales for 1988) account of his abduction by aliens is brought to hallucinogenic life by renegade Austrialian filmmaker Philippe Mora, director of THE BEAST WITHIN and HOWLING 2 & 3. Walken delivers one of his most unsettling(!) performances of all time, channelling the phenomenon of "high weirdness" directly from the screen into viewers' souls.

"What if CLOSE ENCOUNTERS was directed by a horror specialist, starred Christopher Walken and was actually written by the guy who claims he met aliens?" - Filipe Furtado

"Takes itself seriously in the right ways, and doesn't take itself seriously in the right ways. The group of abductees talking through whether or not they should perceive themselves as victims, alongside everything that implies, hits very hard. Still great. Night terror hive rise up." - Michael DeForge