Alien: el secuestro

I had the privilege of working on Alien Abduction. We had a tiny budget and we shot it in a week and a half. I love Sci Fi horror and psychological thrillers that are especially disturbing (a la Angel Heart, Sixth Sense and Jacobs Ladder). I think that Alien Abduction fits in at the gory, b-movie end of those types of films.

I hope that people can forgive the low budget look and see that Alien Abduction is very weird, disturbing and unexpected. It's not meant to be your usual science fiction film with high tech themes. It's more like a nightmare: Like a David Lynch nightmare. If you don't watch it through to the end you'll miss the best part of the movie so give it a chance to play itself out. Most of the reviews are damned good.

More power to the low budget world, (other wise we're stuck with a bunch of Ben Affleck movies and big budget sequels like Bridget Jones five).

I saw this film yesterday.. I thought well at first.. it was gonna be one of those good ol' B-movie.. But it turned out that it wasn't as entertaining as I thought.. It starts out good at first but then all of sudden we get sucked into what's suppose to be this alien world.. But as the film unfolded more I wanted to stop the DVD.. but I said 'Well, I'll keep on watching and see what happens..'

I don't want to give anything much away.. but I think after you watched the film.. You ask yourself 'Is it really worth watching?' I know there are other good alien B-movies out there, that are well made.. But this one was a bit disappointing..

So, I saw the film. It's a thumbs down for me.. The special effects? Well..? OK! It was worth it! But all in all, it's not my cup of tea at the end of the day.. Sorry, but this dosen't work out for me..

Of course I had never heard about this 2005 sci-fi horror movie titled "Alien Abduction" prior to stumbling upon the movie by random chance here in 2024. And I have to say that the movie's cover was actually interesting enough to make me pick it up. And since it was a horror movie of sorts, that I hadn't already seen, of course I opted to give the movie a fair chance.

And as the movie started, my expectations went from slim to none. Why? Well, this was a movie from The Asylum. Yeah, not exactly a movie company with a stellar production value throughout all the years. But every now and again The Asylum does spew out something good, so of course I watched the movie, hoping that this would be one such movie.

I have to say that writer and director Eric Forsberg sure didn't waste any time setting up the movie and planting a narrative. Nay, the movie just throws the audience into the action right away. And that was actually something I enjoyed. But the movie quickly settled into a slump and a slow paced trot, from which it never recovered. And it was quite a struggle to sit through the movie once the narrative moved to the mental institution.

The only familiar face on the screen, for me, was actor Griff Furst. It should be noted, that even while the script was rubbish, then the acting performances in the movie were fair.

The sounds that the alien creature was making were insanely annoying, and they almost made me turn off the movie. It was quite a struggle to sit through and listen to those ridiculous and super annoying sounds. And it didn't help much that the alien creature design looked like it was made from paper mache in an Arts and Crafts class and some resin mask from Wish to top it off. It was so horrible low budget and home-made.

This movie was a swing and a miss of a movie in terms of being entertaining. And it definitely is not a movie that I would recommend you to sit down and waste 96 minutes on watching. Some of us suffered through this dumpster fire of a movie so you don't have to; you're very welcome. You will probably end up wishing that you would be abducted so you don't have to suffer through this ordeal, should you opt to actually sit down and watch it.

The movie's cover was actually the best thing about the ordeal.

My rating of "Alien Abduction" lands on a two out of ten stars.

Yes, this movie is similar to the classic of Ridley Scott in that.. uh... mmmm.. uh... well, in that they both have the word "Alien" in the title. After that comparisons fail.

Actually I'll rate it a 3 instead of a 1 because considering how incredibly low budget this was it there was actually a plot line that could have had potential. Unfortunately it got totally submerged to gore and sadism. Personally I'm not a fan of either of those; someone that is may rate the movie more highly.

The other big time miss was the acting, which was beyond pathetic. Megan Etheridge was pretty good, but it dropped off rather dramatically from her role. In fact so dramatically that I got the impression that a bunch of people that had too much to drink at a come as you are party just decided to make a movie that afternoon. There was not a single other remotely believable character in the script. Maybe this was all low budget tongue and cheek.

I don't really think it had a scary moment, just a few intriguing ones. Worth seeing if you like science fiction plots (although this is quite derivative there are some interesting twists), or sadism/gore. For all I know it will become some kind of cult film. It's almost so bad that it can be entertaining in that way as well.

If I said this film reminded me of a few student films I've seen, I'd have to apologize to the student film makers. The not so special effects make the beginning a cheese festival. If you check my past reviews/comments i think you'll find I tend to allow a fair amount of creative license.

If you have a few hours to kill and you are willing to approach this movie with a wink and a nod, to simply put all expectations aside and try to buy in to the story there is some enjoyment to be had. But trust me, every minute or two you'll be bombarded by 'student film' announcements, props and costumes look cheap and only marginally like they belong.

Give the story a chance....... I think you'll be pleased you did.