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In reply to the discussion: Your favorite alien movie? [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)44. James Earl Jones as Barney Hill...
...Estelle Parsons as Betty Hill. Perfect casting. Perfect acting. Pretty near perfect storytelling, based on the true to life story of a couple who in 1961 experienced a close encounter in northern New Hampshire and later went to Dr. Benjamin Simon, a Boston psychiatrist, for relief from shared nightmares about alien abduction. Undergoing hypnosis separately, they reported similar experiences. "The Interrupted Journey" by John G. Fuller is the seminal work, although Stanton Friedman and others have added much to what is known.
If you see "The UFO Incident" look out for James Earl Jones as Barney describing the feeling he got when observing the UFO that had been following their car through binoculars. "I feel like a rabbit."
BARNEY
(Quite abruptly.) I feel like a rabbit. I feel like a rabbit.
DOCTOR What do you mean by that?
BARNEY I was hunting for rabbits in Virginia. And this cute little bunny went into a bush that was not very big. And my cousin Marge was on one side of the bush, and I was on the otherwith a hat. And the poor little bunny thought he was safe. And it tickled me, because he was just hiding behind a little stalk, which meant security to himwhen I pounced on him, and threw my hat on him, and captured the poor little bunny who thought he was safe.
Transcript of hypnotic session with Barney Hill, Feb. 22, 1964
SOURCE: http://www.davidhalperin.net/the-abduction-of-betty-and-barney-hill-part-1/
DOCTOR What do you mean by that?
BARNEY I was hunting for rabbits in Virginia. And this cute little bunny went into a bush that was not very big. And my cousin Marge was on one side of the bush, and I was on the otherwith a hat. And the poor little bunny thought he was safe. And it tickled me, because he was just hiding behind a little stalk, which meant security to himwhen I pounced on him, and threw my hat on him, and captured the poor little bunny who thought he was safe.
Transcript of hypnotic session with Barney Hill, Feb. 22, 1964
SOURCE: http://www.davidhalperin.net/the-abduction-of-betty-and-barney-hill-part-1/
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I forgot about that one. You're right, it was pretty damn interesting. I liked the idea of...
BlueJazz
Jun 2015
#21
An oldie, Invasion Of The Body Snatchers with its pod people and a newer one, District 9
aint_no_life_nowhere
Jun 2015
#23
the older version of body snatchers was chilling...I was genuinely frightened...
CTyankee
Jun 2015
#27