Alien Abduction

Bound to vanish as quickly as a fleetingly glimpsed UFO after a few close encounters with paying viewers.

Close encounters of the mediocre kind.

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.

As on the nose as its title, Matty Beckerman's "Alien Abduction" repackages ancient legend for modern audiences in a found-footage story of streamlined efficiency.

As the found-footage horror genre reaches the please-lose-it-again point, "Alien Abduction" arrives to remind us how tedious the camping trip set-up has become as well.

Credit this spirited, uncommonly effective found-footage thriller for breaking the templates promised by its genre and title.

Alien Abduction isn't done poorly, per se, but it's not at all entertaining.

Today's lesson is "How not to make a found footage film."

Although the found-footage genre is growing increasingly stale, it can still provide some genuine - if cheap - thrills. Also, Alien Abduction hits this critic right in the nostalgia gland.

Eschewing more sophisticated and higher-degree-of-difficulty moodiness for lots of panicked thrashing about, this found-footage horror tale is an exercise in well-intentioned tedium.

As a horror flick, even one held to the impossibly low standards of the found-footage variety, Alien Abduction fails to thrill or chill.

Alien Abduction is the same found footage movie we've seen time and time again, just this time with aliens substituted in as the main antagonistic force.