I saw this about ten years ago. Two scenes stuck out to me. The first was about people trying to leave a cave and they had to lay flat on the ground and stay quiet as a large, rock-like object that was slowly spinning passed on by above them. It had a lot of holes which had light shining out of them.
There was a scene that had a kid open a door from his bedroom, I think, and the shot is of him screaming into the face of whatever is on the other side. The camera is in front of him and facing him. He is covered in a blinding and flashing light.
The whole thing was in color and English.
I think–but am not sure–those scenes are in the tv movie of “A Wrinkle in Time.” It wasn’t a very clever adaptation of the book, so I only watched it once.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290382/?ref_=nv_sr_2
This has been solved. The film I was looking for was the 1986 sci-fi thriller “Invaders from Mars”.
Glad you found it and thanks for letting us know, surge.