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Apr 1, 2014
80
Credit this spirited, uncommonly effective found-footage thriller for breaking the templates promised by its genre and title.
Apr 4, 2014
75
Beckerman intersperses the footage with static, loud and jagged, and the couple of "effects" included are quick and dirty. If you're going to go the found-footage route, you might as well try to find a new way to approach the material. Beckerman has.
Apr 3, 2014
60
Matty Beckerman’s Alien Abduction repackages ancient legend for modern audiences in a found-footage story of streamlined efficiency.
Apr 2, 2014
50
The performances are perfunctory and the scenario standard-issue even if the execution of this no-budget thriller is top drawer.
Apr 3, 2014
50
Despite a neat narrative twist delivered during the end credits, Alien Abduction is ultimately a by-the-numbers enterprise that will please only the most undemanding audiences at midnight screenings.
Apr 10, 2014
40
A sci-fi thriller as generic as its title, Alien Abduction generates only low-voltage shocks.
Mar 28, 2014
38
A few jolting scares are deployed throughout, but more difficult to shake is how the story's overacting lambs walk a rather programmatic path toward slaughter--or at least anal probing.
Apr 3, 2014
30
A rote, unimaginative entry in the found-footage subgenre of science-fiction/horror. It looks better than a YouTube video, but it’s rarely more engaging.
Apr 3, 2014
30
Suffers from the tired POV gimmickry, the weak characterizations, the numbing sameness of stuck-in-the-woods-with-dolts narratives.
