Theme: Alien Abduction

Alien Abduction is the term given to true-life claims where people recount, usually under hypnosis, being abducted and taken up by UFOs. There is the frequent belief in these works that the purposes of such are medical, sometimes gynaecological experimentation and even cases of impregnation or anal probing. In other cases, abductees have been left with implants and almost always their memories have been blanked of the experience.

There have been numerous depictions of these abductions in genre cinema. Some of these are based on real-life – which we place under Films That Make Dubious Claims to Be Based on True Stories – and others fictional. The first film account of alien abduction appeared in the tv movie The UFO incident (1975) based on the true-life story of Barney and Betty Hill. Real-life abduction accounts went dramatically up after this entered the public paradigm.

Well before it became part of the UFO experience, alien abduction was a regular occurrence in genre cinema. Although there it was usually not the terrifying experience it is in most of the above accounts. In these films, it is often seen a passport to adventure or else conducted by aliens seeking knowledge about humanity, even in some cases aliens wanting to have sex with humans.