Abducted by the Daleks (2005 Video)
7/10
You will be exterminated by laughter
1 February 2017
Warning: Spoilers
Believe me, you will die laughing at this one, which is why, despite this being an awful film, it gets 7 stars from me. "Sex sells" goes the old mantra: so does sci-fi, especially those icons of the genre, the Daleks. Combine the two and you are on to a sure-fire winner. What could possibly go wrong? Well, quite a lot actually, but it all makes for fun viewing. After all, being abducted by aliens, stripped naked and probed all over? What tosh! What sort of idiot would believe such a thing?

Four blondes travelling in a car (sounds like a joke, yes?) crash off the road and seek help the only way four blondes would - by walking into the dark forest where a serial killer is said to be lurking. True to form, we see that they are all wearing the skimpiest of dresses which barely cover their modesty, and definitely no underwear. Two are so frightened in the forest, they do what any sensible girl would do, they strip off and go all lesbian on each other but all get transported to the Dalek mother-ship and three of them are naked for the Daleks' special form of interrogation. The last girl, Anna has a different role but once she is replaced by another actress (reasons unknown) she too ends up naked. There is a twist at the end but not before we meet a serial killer and a hunter, both wearing rubbery Halloween masks.

The production values were a mixed bag. The forest looked to be a wooded garden and the Dalek ship consisted of a white room with a pair of flimsy sliding doors. The Daleks also were a mixed bag: the silver and black ones looked OK but the red one looked on the skinny side. One of the girls looked to be smiling during an interrogation scene and another one was doing a sort of knock-kneed dance so it looks as if the film was a fun experience. A bit more attention should have been paid to the technical side. Some clips looked to have been squeezed sideways to fit a narrower screen because the characters take on a tall and skinny appearance.

The film has a run time of only 55 minutes which is probably just right for this type of film. The alternate version on the DVD is actually the outtakes spliced together. There are also trailers. Overall, this is a fun film and a source of much merriment.
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