Alien Abduction
Starring: Katherine Sigismund, Corey Eid, Riley Polanski
Director: Matty Beckerman
A family on Vacation in the mountains of first spot the brown mountain lights only to discover something more sinister at work in the woods that lend credence to the lights being from another world.
As found footage films go the first thing that is needed is your gimmick to explain why you have a video camera filming everything in Alien Abductions case we have an autistic child who functions better when he has a camera in his hand.
Some bad GPS directions, a low gas tank and some stranded cars all build up to a family on edge who is about to experience something that might not be of this world. It all leads up to an encounter with a local who explains that these extra terrestrials are just “Night Fishing”. They shine a bright light and see what fish swims to the surface.
Based on true events, sandwiched between documentary style footage all merging to create a quality genre film. When the lights shine and the sound bellows it is genuinely creepy atmosphere. It isn’t so much what is shown but what isn’t shown that makes Alien Abduction successful. It’s a glimpse of an Alien being, a footprint; it’s the ever present danger without giving everything away. It’s a strong buildup to when an actual abduction happens and a spine gets snapped backwards that we know this isn’t some hoax.
Typically this type of genre film skews towards the supernatural yet this time the inclusion of an actual phenomena and Alien beings works.
Grade -80