“Alien Abduction” is yet another atrocious found-footage film. Honestly, I must warn people that I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the opening sequence is capable on causing some people to have seizures as the camera spins out of control. It’s a painful opening to a painful movie.

A family take a trip to Brown Mountain, North Carolina. It seems like an idyllic place until they encounter a terrifying alien presence. At least, I think that is what happens. It’s kind of hard to see what is going on when the camera violently shakes all over the place and keeps pretty much anything of interest hidden.

The family in “Alien Abduction” is not horrendous and the performances are not terrible but the movie is so bad overall that I just didn’t care about any of the character. How am I meant to empathise with the main kid as we barely get to actually see him with everything we see being recorded from his camera. The aliens look absolutely pathetic; they look like some guys wearing cheap Halloween costumes. There is also a man that lives in the area that the family meet. He is easily the worst character in the movie and serves no real purpose.

It’s the same nonsense we got with the “Blair Witch Project” and “Cloverfield” with all the best bits being obscured by the camerawork. You can’t find any of this movie scary because you just have no clue what is happening most of the time. The film ends with real people discussing alleged encounters with aliens in the Brown Mountain area but it’s just a total bore. The only positive thing about this movie is that it’s pretty short and it’s not quite as frustrating as “Cloverfield”. Skip this movie unless you are into the found-footage genre.