{"id":1838,"date":"2009-11-25T21:28:10","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T21:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1838"},"modified":"2009-11-25T21:28:10","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T21:28:10","slug":"do_they_make_the_abductees_squeal_like_pigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/25\/do_they_make_the_abductees_squeal_like_pigs\/","title":{"rendered":"Do They Make the Abductees Squeal Like Pigs?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had just turned eight when Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind<\/i> was released in the fall of 1977, and I remember being completely freaked out by the commercials for the film. Oddly enough, the image that mashed down so hard on my “primal dread” button wasn’t even in the movie: a POV shot in which we’re flying down a highway at night toward a hill, on the other side of which is a brilliant, mysterious light. I’m sure my Loyal Readers would recognize that image. It was used on the movie’s one-sheet<\/a> and various tie-in products, and it’s been copied and\/or parodied so many times since that I’m willing to bet most people don’t even realize where it comes from. Whenever I run across it today, I experience a warm spark of nostalgia; back in ’77, it scared the ever-loving crap<\/i> out of me.<\/p>\n

The movie, of course, turned out to be entirely non<\/i>-frightening (well, except for the scene where little Barry gets abducted from his house; that’s<\/i> pretty scary), but think of how terrifying it would’ve been had the aliens come from, shall we say, a more southernly<\/i> part of the galaxy….<\/p>\n

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Close Encounters of the Redneck Kind<\/a> from Marc Bullard<\/a> on Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Via Sullivan<\/a>, who somehow manages to find a lot of cool stuff in spite of making upwards of 50 or so political posts every single day. I envy him his blogging time…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had just turned eight when Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind was released in the fall of 1977, and I remember being completely freaked out by the commercials for the film. Oddly enough, the image that mashed down so hard on my “primal dread” button wasn’t even in the movie: a POV […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}