COMMUNION is well known as one of the weirdest films of the 1980s, an adaptation of the supposed true-life story by author Whitley Streiber which explores his lifelong interactions with alien "greys" busy abducting him and experimenting on him since childhood. That this laboured, openly ridiculous film is entertaining at all is solely down to Christopher Walken, whose all-out-weirdo performance is a thing of delight. Walken basically goes crazy as the film progresses and proceeds to make his wife's life a misery, and his overacting is always amusing. Sadly, the rest is a laughable mess, with plasticky aliens, cheap set design, and a climax which features Walken boogeying and laughing with his alien captors. You'll never have seen anything like it, and I can't quite believe they filmed it...
Review of Communion
