So the film begins. Milla Jovovich (star of such films as Resident Evil) tells us how this film is based on real event and includes real footage and recordings. Then the film actually begins. We are introduced to a psychologist and hypnotherapist who has several patients with the same complaint.

They all can't sleep because of an owl in their window. However, when she delves deeper using hypnotherapy they each change their mind, there was no owl, this was a fake memory, something far more sinister happened.

As the clues unravel, including some strange audio recordings and really conveniently fuzzy video footage it becomes apparent that there is no concrete evidence for this story after all.

The further through the film you get the more crazed the lady telling the story seems to become, but then if what she believes was happening was happening this would be totally understandable.

However, the most logical conclusion is not that aliens had abducted these people. In fact, the claims would probably fit better with either an insanity based on a localised toxin or some kind of spiritual attack (which again, I would meet with skepticism).

As films go, I wouldn't waste your time on this one, unless you're specifically interested in alien abduction, which I'm really not. The fact is that I don't believe in aliens. Even if they did exist, why they would come here baffles me.

see also:
District 9, Battle Los Angeles, Cloverfield, Sunshine

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