The acting in this movie is more than a bit cheesy, and the effects are not much better. In therapy, he comes to realize that he has repressed memories of being abducted and experimented on. During the movie, we watch his descent into madness as he tries to figure out why he’s seeing aliens everywhere. In this movie, Christopher Walken plays an overworked father who experiences a close encounter of the third kind. If you wanted to know what Taken would have looked like in the ’80s, I imagine this movie would be it. In a nutshell, it has to do with his former Special Forces subordinate kidnapping his daughter (a 13-year-old Alyssa Milano). I can’t talk about abduction movies without mentioning at least one Schwarzenegger flick! Between all the gratuitous explosions and examples of classic ’80s masculinity, you may have forgotten why Arnold goes berserk in Commando. Still, it’s a worthy entry for this list. As movies about abductions go, this one doesn’t provoke the same kind of dread some others do. The only thing he wants in return for his victim’s release is an opening spot on that evening’s episode of his program. Robert De Niro plays a stand-up comedian who hatches a plan to kidnap a talk-show host after failing to get a spot on his show. Recently referenced in Todd Phillips’ Joker, Martin Scorsese’s The King of Comedy was definitely ahead of its time when it came out in ’82. So if that’s the kind of anxiety-inducing plot you like - give it a watch. And none of the characters make it out unscathed. The movie forces its audience to witness betrayals, sexual assaults, and mutilations. In this movie, Eddy, Jessie, and her brother Alan abduct Candy, a 16-year-old girl, on her way home from Catholic school. The Candy Snatchers is a prime example of an exploitation film, which typically showcases harsher realities - to put it mildly. If you’re against gore in movies, you should definitely steer clear of this one.
It’s only about an hour and twenty minutes long, so you should have no problem finding the time to watch it. So if you like seeing bad people get their comeuppance, this movie delivers on that promise, at least. During the course of the movie, we see three go-go dancers kill a man, kidnap his girlfriend, and try to rob a lecherous wheelchair-bound old man and his two sons.Īs the events unfold, you get down to maybe two decent characters who get something resembling a happy end. Lest you believe that women are always the victims in movies about abductions, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! is a fantastic example of that not being the case. So if you want to feel the anxiety of not being able to escape, but without the gore you might see in some other entries on this list, it’s an excellent film to start with. In my opinion, The Collector is one of the tamer abduction movies I’ve seen. After stalking and kidnapping Miranda, an art student, he keeps her in a basement room he had prepared for her.įor the next two hours, you watch the back and forth between the kidnapper and his victim. It follows Freddie, an awkward butterfly collector who decides it’s time for him to get a girlfriend. William Wyler’s The Collector is based on the eponymous novel by John Fowles that came out only two years before the movie. Should he pay for the return of someone else’s son or let it go? You’ll find out over the course of two hours and twenty minutes. So the movie showcases the moral dilemma the businessman faces. However, upon arriving home, he realizes that the abductors had mistakenly taken his driver’s son. The basic premise of High and Low is that a wealthy businessman has to pay off his son’s kidnappers. High and Low (1963)īy the time he directed High and Low in 1963, Akira Kurosawa had already made two of his most influential movies - Seven Samurai (1954) and Rashomon (1950). So let’s make the first entry an iconic one. In the interest of seeing the way movies about abductions have evolved, I wanted to present my list in chronological order. 20 Anxiety-Inducing Movies About Abductions and Kidnapping If you want to experience that kind of feeling, here are some movies you can check out. Thrillers have a way of making us feel alive and grateful that we’re not going through what the characters on the screen just went through.
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