I think it would be nice if someone did a more current remake of this movie.

The only thing I had in mind while watching this was:"This is what untreated mental illness looks like."

The visuals this movie creates are nothing like what I imagined while reading the book. The book was genuinely scary, where this movie is disjointed and almost silly. Christopher Walken was not a good choice to play Whitney Strieber. He's too quirky or too odd to generate much sympathy. I don't recall if the book was this trippy. What I mean by that is Strieber's recollection and later hypnotically-induced memories are so scatter shot. It is really tough to stay with this. I thought Lindsay Crouse was good as Mrs. Strieber. She really grounded things and was the real voice of reason through the craziness. The alien creations are very disappointing and the special effects are all bright lights and fog.

This movie has so much potential, but unfortunately someone accidentally set the Tim Burton dial to 5%

Well maybe this movie would of been awesome if I saw it back when it first came out. Unfortunately the costumes looked like something you can buy at a Halloween shop, not to mention that they threw in these random silly scenes that completely kills the seriousness that the movie was trying to go for. Now on the other hand Christopher Walken was awesome.