Alien Abduction

Release Date: 25 August

2014 | 15 | 83 minutes | £ 17.99 ( Blu- ray)/£ 14.99 ( DVD)

As blandly generic as its oh- so- original title implies, this found- footage film forces us to follow the story of a family camping holiday in North Carolina, which gets rudely interrupted by some extra- terrestrials. The father gets kidnapped, the autistic 11- year- old son records the ensuing chaos, and the clichés keep coming thick and fast. Over the course of 83 stagnant minutes, the film stuffs in as many as it can fit.

Quaint considerations like pacing and plot are replaced with jump scares, and the clumsy exposition exists to mechanically move the action along a formulaic path. With dialogue as banal and beige as Aldi own- brand cornflakes, Alien Abduction isn’t even awful enough to be the amusing kind of bad. It’s even worse: boring.

Extras: None. VS Wells