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The abduction of foreigners was the debut of director Eric Forsberg, a promising new genre writer / director whose work until now they have all been low-budget production for the American company asylum. Then Forsberg made an incredible mountains zombie movie, “Night of the Dead” Tod Leben “(2006), while he also wrote the script for asylum in the Snake on a train (2006).

At first glance, you think, as the abduction of foreigners has come along just a few years too late to jump on the fad for UFO conspiracy / alien abduction movies, which were at their peak around 1995-9 following the mass success tv ’s The X Files (1993 — 2002). Indeed Kidnapping foreigners feel the same way as the X-files movie inspired alien abduction, which was reached after success at Blair Witch Project (1999) - the film begins with a group of holidaymakers lost in the woods and stalked something unseen, while most part of the film is linked with the girl running around shooting things with a camera. However, as soon as it becomes apparent Erik Forsberg considerably more ingenuity its sleeve that simply do X Files copycat.

The bulk of the movie takes place in a secret refuge government, which is supposedly for the integration of foreigners abducted back to the community. Here Forsberg throws in a number of quite disconcerting scene - for example, when Megan Lee Ethridge weekend in another part of the asylum and faces various severely mentally vegetation stolen banging their heads against the wall, resulting in clumsy movements or drooling in the hallways and brief vignettes in one room where nurse gleefully jams huge exercise device in a patient’s head, before Ethridge discovers her friends have become too vegetables. It seems that there is a fear Erik Forsberg hospitals - and the abduction of foreigners and night of the Dead “Tod Leben” set in a sinister hospital, where unorthodox and beyond the control experiments are conducted. Here Forsberg unnervingly cranes at the shelters fear - physical coercion drugs and ECT treatment of patients doped sitting in the common room of zombies, the infuriatingly banal piped music, which is designed for calm, authoritarian (almost Kafka-esque) requests for the heroine to her work own good. And with the constant ominous military presence in the background, the film makes a very good job of creating an atmosphere of secrecy, paranoia and distributed ease during these scenes. Forsberg gets stronger and intellectual figures from his lead actress Megan Ethridge Lee, who also demonstrates the ability to strike more capable donkey in the fight scenes.

Erik Forsberg also likes gore effects. The abduction of foreigners, not quite get as extreme in this regard, as the subsequent Forsberg Night Dead “Tod Leben”, which is quite possible, goriest film is, at least, over the last ten years. There are extremely mountain scene, Megan Lee Ethridge jams exercise in a nurse in the skull and splatters of blood and pieces of the brain, all of the contents of her head were sucked into. There, in the merry scene (if not quite 100% convincing effects-wise), where the head janitor swells and explodes, releasing slug. A few also include alien monsters (though quite how they relate to slug aliens we see in other places throughout the film, it is not clear). At the monsters look fairly effective in the few glimpses we get their full body type with a blue light coming from their eyes, although close examination of their legs, usually rubber.

I am really starting to like Eric Forsberg films, at least, occurs in two, I have seen so far. Forsberg likes to splatter effects - not absurd unserious popcorn splatter films as The Evil Dead (1982), or Braindead / Deadalive (1992), but a more sombre and serious bloodshed in the spirit of George Romero Dawn of the Dead around (1979) and Day of the Dead (1985). And, as Romero, Forsberg is the intellectual splatter film director (if not a contradiction of terms). Romero leavens his splatter effects with striking social commentary; Forsberg, unlike more, as Philip K. Dick or M. Night Shyamalan - it builds splatter films that go along with a remarkable twist endings that repeal all that we have assumed in the course of the film.

Up until the last ten minutes of its abduction of foreigners may seem like an average, if a very well-made, UFO abductions / movie plot. But suddenly at this point Erik Forsberg throws in a totally unexpected places left, ending that casts all that has been assumed for the entire film entirely in his head. [SPOILER WARNING] What we have undertaken some time in a mental hospital for alien abductees returned is overturned, and it has shown that Megan Lee Ethridge truly alien body snatcher, and that the whole hospital, set up to induct the pod people in their human host bodies, and that it is not stealing, and that the fraudulent alien scientist deliberately blanked the memory of her true nature foreigner. This is really like a mirror-reversed version invasion of the body Snatchers (1956) - in which the human instead morning to unlock the people around them were replaced by people under the person wakes up to realize that they are not human in the end. In the ingenuity of the reverse absolutely audacious. Both night of the abduction of foreigners and the Dead “Tod Leben” leave me with great anticipation to see what Erik Forsberg is going to do next.

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