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Communion | |
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Directed by | Philippe Mora |
Written by | Whitley Strieber |
Based on | Communion by Whitley Strieber |
Produced by | Philippe Mora |
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Cinematography | Louis Irving |
Edited by | Lee Smith |
Music by | Eric Clapton Allan Zavod |
Distributed by | New Line Cinema Allied Vision |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $7 million[1] |
Box office | $1.92 million[2] |
Communion is a 1989 American science fiction horror film based on the book of the same name by Whitley Strieber in 1987.
Starring Christopher Walken and Frances Sternhagen, it tells a story of a family that experiences an extraterrestrial phenomenon while on vacation at a remote home in the wilderness during which the father is abducted and all of their lives change. According to Strieber, the story is a real-life account of his own encounter with "visitors", with Walken playing the role of the author.