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Alien Abduction

Alien Abduction

Horror · Science Fiction · Thriller · 2014

A vacationing family encounters an alien threat in this pulse-pounding thriller based on the real-life Brown Mountain Lights phenomenon in North Carolina.

Movie details

Alien Abduction

“Fear The Lights...”

2014 Horror · Science Fiction · Thriller 1h 25m

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TMDB

5.9 / 10

Community rating

A vacationing family encounters an alien threat in this pulse-pounding thriller based on the real-life Brown Mountain Lights phenomenon in North Carolina.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.

The archetype split

Who fights over Alien Abduction?

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The people responsible.

Directed by

Matty Beckerman

Written by

Robert Alvin Lewis

Katherine Sigismund

Katherine Sigismund

Katie Morris

Corey Eid

Corey Eid

Corey Morris

R

Riley Polanski

Riley Morris

Jillian Clare

Jillian Clare

Jillian Morris

Jeff Bowser

Jeff Bowser

Sean

Peter Holden

Peter Holden

Peter Morris

Walter Phelan

Walter Phelan

Alien

Court is in session

Put Alien Abduction on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Arthouse Gremlin

“Its refusal to behave is the point.”

The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.

The prosecution The Prestige Tourist

“Oddness is not depth.”

A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.