Review of Alien Abduction (2014) by Barry H — 04 Nov 2014

If you thought films like 'The Last Broadcast' (1998), 'The Blair Witch Project' (1999), and 'V/H/S' (2012) were just enough, 'Alien Abduction' (2014) is yet just ANOTHER found-footage flick to complain about.

This one focuses on extraterrestrials! Here we follow an autistic eleven-year-old boy named Riley Morris (played by Riley Polanski) who is determined to film everything on his family camping trip, even when things go horribly wrong.

'Surprise, there's an alien abduction!' And it's not even such an interesting one. Typical plot structure, predictable jump scares, and all sorts of illogical motifs scattered here and there are what really kill this movie.

I would say the cast tries their hardest, but when watching this you just have to forget about their acting. In this day and age what the found footage genre really needs is something beyond just smoke and mirrors.

Despite how much I usually harp on the 'predictable jump scares', this movie contains some pretty eerie images. If this was released about fifteen years ago it probably would have been way more convincing.

The broadcast of Dean Alioto's television movies, 'Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County' (1998) and 'UFO Abduction (The McPherson Tape)' (1998), caused a cluster of viewers to panic when they were first aired T.

V. Though the two movies were made on a very low budget, the viewer's came to terms that the actual footage presented was real. 'The Blair Witch Project' (1999) is known to be one of the scariest movies of all time, and half of the time it's more than less just screams, swearing, and curses.

All in all, 'Alien Abduction' (2014) is an excess visit into familiar territory. We've seen this done many times before... and many times better.