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    Image of Allen_Richards Allen_Richards
    11/06/09

    In reply to Are There Any Truly Scary Alien Abduction Movies?
    Ugh, how could I forget about this masterpiece - INBRED REDNECK ALIEN ABDUCTION.

    Sorry, no trailer to share, just the website: [www.inbredredneck.com] #aliens
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    Image of Starwatcher Starwatcher
    11/06/09

    In reply to Are There Any Truly Scary Alien Abduction Movies?
    Also freaky: my favorite band, Tool's, song "Rosetta Stoned" which is a tripped-out recount of an alien abduction.

    Rosetta Stoned #aliens
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    11/06/09

    In reply to Are There Any Truly Scary Alien Abduction Movies?
    Close Encounters of the Third Kind gets my vote, because it scared the bejeezus out of me when I was a kid. Fire in the Sky was freaky too. That being said, of all of them Taken is my favorite. #aliens
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    Image of Daveinva Daveinva
    11/06/09

    In reply to Are There Any Truly Scary Alien Abduction Movies?
    Another vote for Fire in the Sky.

    BUT. . . while it's not at all an alien abduction story, all those poor colonists on LV-426 got their butts abducted, then impregnated, then blown apart, then eaten, then incinerated in a mushroom cloud the size of Nebraska.

    Bummer. #aliens
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    11/06/09

    @Daveinva: As an aside, I'm a 15-years-running night terror sufferer. I'm *totally* convinced that most stories of "abductions" are the result of night terrors and sleep paralysis. *I* know what's going on because I know what they are, but even then, they're scary as hell.

    Can't move, can't breathe, and you KNOW there's somebody in the room with you, you can feel it, if only you could just turn your head, but you can't...

    Fun times.

    I can only imagine that slightly-less cosmopolitan folk might not be familiar enough with the medical terminology and simply think they're being abducted (or possessed by demons-- they're all the same stories anyway). #aliens
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    Image of BlueBeard BlueBeard
    11/06/09

    In reply to Are There Any Truly Scary Alien Abduction Movies?
    I voted Fire in the Sky because I was too scared to watch Communion. #aliens
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    Image of regis regis
    11/06/09

    In reply to Are There Any Truly Scary Alien Abduction Movies?
    one of my brothers forced me to go see 'communion' in the theater when it came out.

    if alien space weasels had descended in the first 10 minutes and killed everyone in the film, it would've been a better movie because it would've been shorter. #aliens
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    Image of bookwench bookwench
    11/06/09

    In reply to Are There Any Truly Scary Alien Abduction Movies?
    I have to go with "none". None of them have ever frightened me. Sorry. Aliens just aren't scary. Even Aliens aliens just aren't scary. Gorgeous, creepy, moody, startling; but not scary. #aliens
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    Image of Tomb: R.O.A.C.H. Tomb: R.O.A.C.H.
    11/05/09

    In reply to Are There Any Truly Scary Alien Abduction Movies?
    How about that dude that fly around in time and space and kidnaps little girls..?! #aliens
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    Image of Sunshineyness Sunshineyness
    11/05/09

    In reply to Are There Any Truly Scary Alien Abduction Movies?
    Alien abduction/invasion was my number 1 fear as a kid thanks to X-Files and the slew of other UFO related stuff Fox aired because of the popularity of it. That Alien Autopsy (which looks SO freaking fake to me now) video scared the bejesus out of me.

    I kinda want to see all these movies now because I absolutely refused to as a kid. If there was any hint of evil aliens involved I refused to watch it. #aliens
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    Image of Post-Nuked Post-Nuked
    11/05/09

    In reply to Are There Any Truly Scary Alien Abduction Movies?
    I've always been a big fan of a good needle in the eye scene, like the splinter scene in Fulci's Zombie. #aliens
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    Image of lightninglouie lightninglouie
    11/05/09

    In reply to Are There Any Truly Scary Alien Abduction Movies?
    That Futurama episode where aliens abduct Fry and steal his nose was weird and unnerving. Also, Bigfoot was somehow involved, IIRC. #aliens
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    Image of EdificeComplex EdificeComplex
    11/05/09

    In reply to Are There Any Truly Scary Alien Abduction Movies?
    Say someone, me for instance, posted this exact clip from Fire In the Sky in the comments from your review of The Fourth Kind. I get no love!?! Oh Annalee you're a cold, cold mistress!

    [io9.com]

    /end sarcasm #aliens
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    Image of tande04 tande04
    11/05/09

    @EdificeComplex: Yet neither of you could find it in the right aspect ratio?

    [www.youtube.com] #aliens
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    Image of Makidian Makidian
    11/05/09

    In reply to Are There Any Truly Scary Alien Abduction Movies?
    Fire in the Sky scared the crap out of me whe I saw it, I was 10 or so and I still think it's creepy. Taken is one of my all time favorite mini's. Every episode was just incredible but I never found it scary. #aliens
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    Image of firstanointed firstanointed
    11/05/09

    In reply to Are There Any Truly Scary Alien Abduction Movies?
    I loved Taken. Mostly just all the bits Steve Burton was in. So sad that he hasn't escaped General Hospital yet. maybe some kind producer will abduct him. #aliens
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    Image of Chimaera Chimaera
    11/05/09

    In reply to Are There Any Truly Scary Alien Abduction Movies?

    Scared the hell outta me.... #aliens
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    Image of Im_your_Huckleberry Im_your_Huckleberry
    11/05/09

    @Chimaera: I kept waiting for that video game to come out.
    /FUBAR'D #aliens
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    Image of Vulcan Has No Moon Vulcan Has No Moon
    11/05/09

    @Im_your_Huckleberry: Eventually you'll get your game. They'll probably remake the movie any day now. They won't pass up the chance for tie-in cash nowadays. #aliens
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    11/06/09

    @Vulcan Has No Moon: I confess, this movie geeked me out as a kid.
    /Finally gets that off of his chest. #aliens
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