Wow! Such a good movie.

Fresh and Exciting

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Compared to the original, the story is much more fleshed out, much scarier and the acting is much better. Throughout the beginning of the film, the acting seems quite fake, but near the end, the acting is brilliant and seems very real. The point of the movie is to seem realistic and acting is a gigantic point of that. But, it does only very well near the end. Also, the cuts in the film are quite annoying but also funny because you know they're fake. This does quite ruin the realism though, but it was funny to see the director - Dean Alioto in one of the cuts saying "No one could have directed this except me". I kind of think another remake would be pretty amazing with better effects and actors (maybe the same actors, just years on when they've gotten better!)

A found footage alien abduction movie that originally aired on the UPN network in January of 1998. Much like the contemporaneous Blair Witch Project, many were convinced it was real. It's very clearly not. The acting is very amateurish. The film is broken up with interviews from experts. One of them, a film director, claims that it has to be real because it has no real plot. The fact is, not only does the film have a very basic horror movie plot, it also has about half a dozen subplots, like mom's alcoholism (the woman carries a wine glass even while running from aliens) or sister's dating a black man. No matter, though. For what it is, it's actually very well done. It's quite frightening. I'm surprised it didn't lead to bigger things for the director. I suspect, given which network it aired on, that almost no one saw it at the time. This is actually the second version of the film. The first was made nine years earlier. Both versions can be found on Youtube.

The found footage genre is designed to show horror from a "realistic" point of view. It's designed to push the envelope in suspension of disbelief, to make the viewer actually interpret the events depicted as real, which is what makes films like "Blair Witch" and "Paranormal Activity" so real and so effective. If that's the case with found footage, I never got that sense once from "Alien Abduction". The acting and writing is so clearly that--acting and writing--that your suspension of disbelief is thrown before the first five minutes are up. The fact that the characters are cardboard cutout clichés does not help either. Unfortunately, the film does not share in the glory of being "so bad, it's good": it's just simply awful.

This is without doubt the worst film I have ever seen, I cannot believe so many people have rated it so highly and said it was scary... It is gash! The "acting" was beyond belief, I have seen better acting from kids wearing rubber helmets doing drama at special school.By the time the film was over I genuinely wanted to inflict an eye injury to myself using a spoon to ensure I would never see this horrendous film again.The fact it tries to make out it is a true story makes it even worse, it's not bad enough that it was made and released onto the world like an unwanted STD but then the writer tries to insult our intelligence by claiming it is genuine. I hope he falls onto a spike.