Alien Abduction, a list by Michael Mcdermott

7.6

/230730/

75

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73

/4489/

3.8

/284536/

91

/116/

85

/4860/

90

/10/

4.0

age 8+

After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.

81

7.9

/848057/

78

/65069/

76

/18856/

4.1

/2244913/

94

/441/

83

/6109/

81

/52/

3.0

age 11+

Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.

81

7.7

/89328/

75

/2168/

75

/1195/

3.8

/46922/

95

/59/

87

/2450/

83

/15/

age 9+

An alien and a robot land on Earth after World War II and tell mankind to be peaceful or face destruction.

81

7.6

/83606/

76

/2053/

77

/1209/

4.2

/506140/

86

/116/

89

/2800/

74

/32/

3.5

A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.

81

8.0

/1348302/

82

/107161/

79

/29185/

3.8

/2693576/

91

/337/

92

/16328/

76

/53/

3.0

age 12+

Light years from Earth, 26 years after being abducted, Peter Quill finds himself the prime target of a manhunt after discovering an orb wanted by Ronan the Accuser.

78

7.5

/224251/

75

/7294/

73

/3069/

3.7

/121718/

78

/91/

85

/7202/

66

/23/

4.0

age 16+

A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.

76

7.9

/468508/

77

/19942/

81

/10549/

3.4

/587512/

71

/313/

92

/14524/

54

/46/

3.5

age 14+

Determined to ensure Superman's ultimate sacrifice was not in vain, Bruce Wayne aligns forces with Diana Prince with plans to recruit a team of metahumans to protect the world from an approaching threat of catastrophic proportions.

76

6.7

/49221/

66

/3124/

65

/1129/

3.5

/98588/

92

/248/

66

/501/

84

/35/

4.0

age 13+

At the dawn of the space-race, two radio-obsessed teens discover a strange frequency over the airwaves in what becomes the most important night of their lives and in the history of their small town.

76

7.4

/189637/

76

/7509/

71

/2423/

3.7

/154819/

90

/132/

79

/7307/

70

/28/

3.0

age 10+

For four years, the courageous crew of the NSEA Protector — Commander Peter Quincy Taggart, Lieutenant Tawny Madison, and Doctor Lazarus — set off on a thrilling and often dangerous mission in space ... until their series was cancelled! Now, twenty years later, aliens under attack have mistaken the Galaxy Quest television transmissions for "historical documents" and beam up the crew of has-been actors to save the universe. With no script, no director, and no clue, the actors must turn in the performances of their lives.

75

6.9

/107117/

70

/7940/

70

/2264/

3.3

/322125/

94

/64/

81

/347/

On a mission to make Christmas unforgettable for Quill, the Guardians head to Earth in search of the perfect present.

75

7.2

/380285/

72

/27325/

69

/8414/

3.6

/611115/

91

/319/

79

/4124/

76

/43/

3.0

age 14+

After a catastrophic car crash, a young woman wakes up in a survivalist's underground bunker, where he claims to have saved her from an apocalyptic attack that has left the outside world uninhabitable.

74

6.8

/310777/

68

/16272/

68

/4654/

3.7

/1949398/

83

/479/

69

/3550/

77

/64/

3.5

age 16+

Residents in a lonely gulch of inland California bear witness to an uncanny, chilling discovery.

71

6.9

/54768/

74

/2496/

69

/911/

3.3

/29931/

85

/33/

76

/2630/

64

/13/

age 10+

12-year-old David is accidentally knocked out in the forest near his home, but when he awakens eight years have passed. His family is overjoyed to have him back, but is just as perplexed as he is that he hasn't aged. When a NASA scientist discovers a UFO nearby, David gets the chance to unravel the mystery and recover the life he lost.

71

7.0

/268274/

75

/28000/

67

/6921/

3.3

/216828/

86

/319/

80

/4866/

68

/50/

2.5

age 12+

The USS Enterprise crew explores the furthest reaches of uncharted space, where they encounter a mysterious new enemy who puts them and everything the Federation stands for to the test.

69

68

6.8

/14610/

66

/388/

65

/241/

3.5

/8265/

82

/17/

68

/372/

66

/6/

Billy Pilgrim, a veteran of the Second World War, finds himself mysteriously detached from time, so that he is able to travel, without being able to help it, from the days of his childhood to those of his peculiar life on a distant planet called Tralfamadore, passing through his bitter experience as a prisoner of war in the German city of Dresden, over which looms the inevitable shadow of an unspeakable tragedy.

67

6.7

/49239/

71

/2402/

66

/739/

3.2

/23693/

76

/90/

70

/1602/

67

/8/

2.5

age 9+

Video game expert Alex Rogan finds himself transported to another planet after conquering the video game The Last Starfighter, only to find out it was just a test. He was recruited to join the team of best Starfighters to defend their world from the attack.

66

7.1

/859548/

70

/34015/

66

/15859/

3.0

/858822/

57

/341/

75

/27130/

55

/47/

3.0

age 12+

A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind.

66

65

6.5

/12607/

66

/390/

63

/235/

3.2

/13169/

81

/31/

56

/179/

68

/10/

Author and amateur astronomer John Putnam and schoolteacher Ellen Fields witness an enormous meteorite come down near a small town in Arizona. Putnam becomes a local object of scorn when, after examining the object up close, he announces that it is a spacecraft, and that it is inhabited...

68

65

6.0

/7442/

60

/251/

58

/129/

3.5

/17020/

93

/30/

70

/247/

66

/7/

An alien creature invades New York's punk subculture in its search for an opiate released by the brain during an orgasm.

64

6.0

/15678/

66

/596/

59

/258/

3.1

/6969/

71

/429/

66

/10/

Perennially stoned Cheech and Chong tear through the city of Los Angeles, causing trouble wherever they go. After Cheech loses his job, the two pot enthusiasts head to the welfare offices where Cheech's girlfriend, Donna, works. Instead of collecting unemployment, they find themselves thrown back on the streets, searching for a way to earn new income. But when Cheech's cousin, "Red" Mendoza, arrives, things get even crazier.

63

5.8

/11544/

59

/1114/

66

/267/

2.9

/56381/

90

/61/

53

/96/

65

/8/

2.5

age 16+

The infinite playground of forbidden worlds and dangerous lifeforms offered by the sci-fi horror genre will lead to the biggest, maddest, bloodiest V/H/S ever.

64

63

6.6

/11924/

69

/351/

68

/201/

4.0

/107223/

50

/14/

76

/341/

44

/16/

In Los Angeles, a colorful assortment of bohemians try to make sense of their intersecting lives. The moody Dark Smith, his bisexual girlfriend, her lesbian lover and their shy gay friend plan on attending the wildest party of the year. But they'll only make it if they can survive the drug trips, suicides, trysts, mutilations and alien abductions that occur as one surreal day unfolds.

63

6.6

/502346/

67

/15421/

65

/8907/

3.3

/380102/

76

/264/

42

/1179023/

73

/40/

2.0

age 15+

Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.

63

6.2

/51772/

65

/2032/

66

/1121/

3.4

/173969/

79

/29/

61

/2554/

43

/4/

Aliens disguised as clowns crash land on Earth in a rural town to capture unsuspecting victims in cotton candy cocoons for later consumption.

62

6.4

/207768/

68

/20943/

66

/7814/

2.7

/222766/

47

/297/

53

/2607/

51

/45/

4.0

age 11+

In the 28th century, Valerian and Laureline are special operatives charged with keeping order throughout the human territories. On assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two undertake a mission to Alpha, an ever-expanding metropolis where species from across the universe have converged over centuries to share knowledge, intelligence, and cultures. At the center of Alpha is a mysterious dark force which threatens the peaceful existence of the City of a Thousand Planets, and Valerian and Laureline must race to identify the menace and safeguard not just Alpha, but the future of the universe.

61

6.0

/21699/

59

/1270/

56

/584/

3.0

/64396/

72

/57/

49

/146/

61

/17/

3.0

age 16+

A socially awkward woman with a fondness for arts and crafts, horses, and supernatural crime shows finds her increasingly lucid dreams trickling into her waking life.

63

61

6.2

/10137/

62

/277/

59

/197/

3.1

/7499/

88

/16/

55

/149/

56

/12/

A boy tries to stop aliens that have taken over his town and are brainwashing its inhabitants.

63

61

6.3

/9956/

69

/287/

61

/177/

3.1

/6097/

73

/15/

55

/193/

Test space rockets exploding at liftoff and increased reporting of UFO sightings culminate in a direct attempt by alien survivors of a dead, extra-galactic civilization to invade Earth from impervious flying saucers, using ray-weapons of mass destruction.

61

6.4

/25217/

68

/1112/

62

/484/

3.2

/18225/

49

/103/

66

/712/

58

/14/

age 7+

Middle schooler Ben spends his free time watching sci-fi films, playing video games and reading comic books. Surprisingly, his affinity for all things fantastical yields a real result – when he has a vivid dream about technology, his prodigy best friend Wolfgang manages to create a working spacecraft. Joined by their buddy Darren, the boys take off into outer space and encounter some very odd extraterrestrial life.

60

6.2

/77855/

63

/5059/

66

/1368/

3.0

/235985/

83

/123/

56

/532/

60

/16/

1.5

age 14+

A lonely woman battles extraterrestrials who threaten her future while forcing her to face her past.

59

5.9

/11526/

59

/1059/

63

/449/

3.1

/10489/

54

/125/

68

/83/

57

/24/

2.0

age 15+

A decorated Marine goes on a rescue mission to save his two young sons from an unhuman threat. As their journey takes them in increasingly dangerous directions, the boys will need to leave their childhoods behind.

60

59

5.9

/11307/

64

/370/

59

/228/

3.0

/6071/

75

/16/

45

/242/

Aliens have landed and are hiding on Earth, but need Earth’s scientists to help them fight an inter-planetary war.

59

5.6

/3454/

61

/268/

51

/87/

2.9

/8695/

80

/56/

58

/30/

2.0

Barry is a drug-addled, abusive bastard who - after yet another bender - is abducted by aliens. Barry takes a backseat as an alien visitor assumes control of his body and takes it for a joyride through Cape Town. What follows is an onslaught of drugs, sex, and violence as our alien tourist enters the weird and wonderful world of humankind.

59

6.5

/31085/

67

/1320/

66

/655/

3.2

/31087/

52

/31/

57

/781/

42

/17/

2.5

age 14+

After clearing brush for the government, a group of men return to town claiming their friend was abducted. Despite no apparent motive or evidence of foul play, no-one believes their story and his disappearance is treated as murder.

58

5.4

/10458/

56

/714/

52

/255/

2.8

/14943/

90

/29/

44

/79/

age 14+

Something lurks off the coast of Block Island, silently influencing the behavior of fisherman, Tom Lynch. After suffering a series of violent outbursts, he unknowingly puts his family in grave danger.

58

6.4

/259908/

65

/8890/

63

/4455/

2.9

/162524/

65

/202/

52

/10119/

51

/30/

2.0

age 18+

A group of cold-blooded killers find themselves trapped on an alien planet to be hunted by extraterrestrial Predators.

58

6.4

/256542/

66

/7888/

64

/5732/

3.2

/269541/

55

/87/

53

/11314/

52

/19/

2.0

age 13+

A fleet of Martian spacecraft surrounds the world's major cities and all of humanity waits to see if the extraterrestrial visitors have, as they claim, "come in peace." U.S. President James Dale receives assurance from science professor Donald Kessler that the Martians' mission is a friendly one. But when a peaceful exchange ends in the total annihilation of the U.S. Congress, military men call for a full-scale nuclear retaliation.

58

6.0

/72279/

62

/4764/

60

/1780/

2.8

/28207/

60

/87/

39

/595/

54

/34/

3.0

age 14+

On a road trip, Nic and two friends are drawn to an isolated area by a computer genius. When everything suddenly goes dark, Nic regains consciousness – only to find himself in a waking nightmare.

67

57

6.4

/3459/

64

/78/

61

/61/

3.2

/2710/

92

/13/

57

/44/

Aliens from Outer Space are slowly switching places with real humans -- one of the first being a young man about to get married. Slowly, his new wife realizes something is wrong, and her suspicions are confirmed when her husband's odd behaviour begins to show up in other townspeople.

57

6.3

/7310/

61

/229/

58

/154/

3.5

/16989/

80

/15/

51

/109/

55

/6/

1.0

A New York detective investigates a series of murders committed by random citizens who claim that 'God told them to'.

56

4.9

/3814/

55

/327/

49

/121/

2.7

/6383/

68

/34/

32

/60/

56

/12/

3.5

In a desolate community full of drug-addled Marines and rumors of kidnapping, a wild-eyed stoner named Lou wakes up after a crazy night of partying with symptoms of a strange illness and recurring visions. As she struggles to get a grip on reality, the stories of conspiracy spread.

56

6.5

/56903/

68

/1516/

62

/570/

3.1

/52512/

42

/65/

63

/2351/

53

/17/

1.5

age 15+

It's graduation day at Huntington Hills High, and you know what that means - time to party. And not just any party, either. This one will be a night to remember, as the nerds become studs, the jocks are humiliated, and freshman crushes blossom into grown-up romance.

56

6.0

/48212/

62

/2268/

62

/1139/

3.0

/86062/

70

/66/

53

/946/

49

/21/

1.5

age 18+

Inside a darkened house looms a column of TVs littered with VHS tapes, a pagan shrine to forgotten analog gods. The screens crackle and pop endlessly with monochrome vistas of static white noise permeating the brain and fogging concentration. But you must fight the urge to relax: this is no mere movie night. Those obsolete spools contain more than just magnetic tape. They are imprinted with the very soul of evil.

55

6.0

/72048/

62

/4276/

60

/2078/

2.6

/184222/

57

/7/

43

/322/

In a massive, mysterious chamber, fifty strangers awaken to find themselves trapped with no memory of how they got there. Organized in an inward-facing circle and unable to move, they quickly learn that every two minutes, one of them must die…executed by a strange device in the center of the room.

54

5.4

/100870/

56

/6080/

54

/2769/

2.6

/221732/

55

/319/

38

/515/

53

/52/

3.0

age 16+

In the sleepy town of Centerville, the lives of a number of interconnected characters are disrupted by the undead.

62

54

5.7

/3431/

60

/121/

58

/81/

3.0

/2760/

100

/8/

39

/58/

While watching for a planet that may collide with earth, scientists stationed in Scotland are approached by a visitor from outer space.

62

54

6.2

/4089/

64

/147/

74

/183/

3.1

/4214/

48

/44/

After a mysterious blackout, a son goes out to investigate and captures footage of actual aliens. When the aliens follow he and his brothers back to their home all hell breaks lose.

54

6.0

/240407/

61

/9814/

56

/5270/

2.4

/138798/

44

/254/

43

/8928/

50

/41/