UFO Kidnapped

• Canada • 1983 • 51m •

• Directed by: Geoffrey Darby, Roger Damon Price. • Starring: Alasdair Gillis, Kevin Kubusheskie, Les Lye, Vanessa Lindores, Doug Ptolemy, Klea Scott, Greg Saygon, Tony Lefebvre, Rodney Helal, John Caines, Barry Blake, Terry Green, Mike Tomicic. • Music by: Peter Jermyn.

Two teenage boys, Alasdair and Kevin, out camping in the Ontario woods are abducted by a spaceship and are held with two other captives, a cat burglar and a teenage intellectual, by two aliens who take them on a trip through space and time while Alasdair and Kevin and their two other captives try to figure out the aliens agenda for them.

Review:

The genius of this low-budget attempt at sci-fi was that it used the same actors and sets as the sketch comedy "You can't do that on Television" but was dead serious. The result resembled a nightmare in which everything starts out normal but then turns and becomes dark and untenably weird. It was like the writers and cast of "H.R Pufnstuf" decided to put on a production of Carmen.

It has been a long time since I've seen this movie, something like 19 years, but it was well wrought enough to stay with me. I think that the fact that the actors and sets were already so familiar to the the "You Can't do that on Television" viewer leant the movie a bizarre normalcy which circumvented the normal defense mechanisms.

Review by ptwickler from the Internet Movie Database.

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