A typical family of American morons gathered together to celebrate a traditional American occasion. But in the midst of chance, some unannounced guests arrive, they are coming from far far away, from the alien land, just to "experiment on a terrestrial cow". Nothing more logical, right? We do not see at all the aliens but we should be afraid of them. Why? Because thousands of morons decided so in the last 100 of years. Except two famous productions signed Steven Spielberg, in most movies on the same subject, the aliens are ugly, bad, destructive, etc. Did somebody thought that all this actually reflect the evil and ugliness of the human race, the evil and ugliness of those who imagined, written and filmed all these stupid stories? Did somebody thought that the real aliens (because I really believe they exist...), they are like us, the human race (those mentally sane), and even we come from somewhere far far away in the outer space? Do we really need such s..t like this film and thousands others like this? I say a resounding NO!

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.

Caught this on Sky Sci Fi/Horror movie channel on night. A good movie for what it is really. But what slightly bugged me about it was that the acting was just like watching and episode of an American soap opera, the direction of the acting was going through also. A happy American family is portrayed on screen through the style a la Blair Witch (However didn't this come before Blair Witch?) Anyway, the problem is I don't know what people are saying that it looked REAL when this is obviously far from the truth. First off, the acting is not the type of acting you would expect to see at a thanksgiving dinner through a camcorder. The actors are behaving like it is a movie with awful clichés when it should be portrayed as REAL life acting especially if we are to assume this is actual footage of a real tape. The acting is mediocre at best when it comes to this movie. What the director/writers should have left out was the sudden interruptions they made during the movie having brief interviews with a cop, a rock star abductee, and a scientist giving their thoughts on the "Found" Footage. Pure Garbage in my opinion.However, having said all that, it didn't ruin the movie for me that much. It was in fact enjoyable. What made this movie great was the aliens outside the house and telepathically messing with the families minds, and causing them to suffer from nosebleeds and burns on their backs,and having all the electronics in the house go haywire and having the young girl only barely touching the keys on the piano, making the other family members think she is actually playing the piano, we the audience only notice this however through the camera. A few eerie scenes made me say "this is crazy" a few times, which I loved.Seeing this now, it reminded only a small bit of Paranormal Activity,set in a house giving it a kind of claustrophobic sense with bad s***t going down. However I wont compare it to it that much, this was obviously way low budget, and way back in 1998 especially. So I wont compare it to Paranormal Activity really except for the house setting through the camera. Overall, a decent movie. Just ignore those stupid actors in the "Interviews".

Before the blair Witch project, three other films made movies that looked like home movies. One was Cannabal Holocaust, which I never saw, the second was the last broadcast which was pretty boring, and the third was Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County, which was great. The plot involves a family named the Mcphersons, they are about to enjoy Thanksgiving dinner, when the lights go out. Three of them go out to fix it, and what they find is something that could change our world forever. I won't spoil any more of it, you really should watch it.It's creepy, scary, and unique. Though it isn't the most realistic of these camcorder films. But, when you think about it, none of them really are.