The funny thing about alien abduction is that it always happens in pockets of rural farmland.
Aliens or any advanced species will not come to us with smiles or warm greetings. It will be less Close Encounters and more Independence Day. Jeff Goldblum and Will Smith may or may not save us. Before a blue laser blast decimated the White House, a more intimate and intense experience with the Third Kind happened.
Independence Day is loved for its visual effects (which still hold up today) and its spectacle. Mars Attacks! has enjoyable cameos, wild imagination and a solid score, even if it is lower tier Burton. FITS is a film whose best scene is on par with the likes of Jacob's Ladder.
It contains the sole abduction scene that remains convincing and terrifying in regards to aliens. Infuriatingly so. What makes it so effective is the way its done- cold yet curious about what this human specimen . I haven't seen this done, or at least achieved succesfully up until Annihilation which came out at the beginning of this year. The phenomena in that film came less as an evil entity from another planet and more as something that just is.
The set design from this FITS scence in particular is less futuristic based and more alien based. There's slimy walls, a horrifying set piece where the abductee feels around where he is and find his hands inside a man's body. The gray suits, the scattered books, shoes, glasses and other objects along the way. It's all foreplay to a scene that remains unmatched in alien abduction horror.
The scene is such a standout, but it really helps that there's a pretty decent movie wrapped around it.
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