Geekscape Movie Reviews: ‘Abducted’

Abducted, the new horror/sci-fi thriller from Glen Scantlebury and Lucy Phillips (My Tiny Universe, Steal America) stars Trevor Morgan (Chasing 3000, The Rookie) and Tessa Ferrer (Go For Sisters, Grey’s Anatomy) as a couple who are abducted from Griffith Park by unknown assailants. Together with four other couples they meet in their imprisonment, they must figure out who has taken them–and why.

Morgan and Ferrer play David and Jessica, a couple visiting Los Angeles from New York. While on a sightseeing hike near the Griffith Observatory, they are taken hostage by spooky figures in orange hazmat suits and gas masks. They wake up, in their underwear, in a dank, dark room where they are held and subjected to intense psychological abuse and strange medical experiments.

Numerous escape attempts reveal fellow kidnapped couples, each with their own theories: Justin (Doug Haley) and Summer (Emily Graham-Handley) who reinforce Jessica and David’s believe that they were kidnapped to be held for ransom as Jessica’s dad is a General in Afghanistan and Justin’s is a wealthy producer; Eliot (Aidan Park) and Maria (Vivan Dugre) are scientists who believe it is alien abduction and have been following similar missing people cases across the country. They believe the aliens take couples so that they can create a human-alien hybrid who can take over the earth; and Buzz (Ross Thomas) and Tiffany (Jelly Howie) who believe it’s the government creating super-soldiers.

Full of spooky details (hair and nails don’t grow, phones never lose their charge though they don’t get a signal, a pale blonde child wandering the halls) and a complement of red herrings, Abducted does a good job of keeping the audience in suspense (and at times, horrified) and questioning what is going on. While there are a few ‘wait, but why…?’ moments, the film is well-paced, well-written and well-acted and for fans of thrillers/suspense movies,  a well spent hour and thirty minutes.

Abducted is a Entertainment One and Hidden Agenda presentation with Pavement Pictures. The film can be purchased on DVD for $19.98 and is also available on Xbox Video. For more information, visit their website or Facebook page.

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