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Forbidden Zone: Alien Abduction [VHS]

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This film is a dumb and sleazy, trying to make people think they are buying Richard Elfman's Forbidden Zone, which this film is not!

This is a sleazy Charlie Band cheapo, meant to confuse people with Richard Elfman's cult hit, Forbidden Zone. DO NOT BE FOOLED!

GAG! This movie wanted to be something. I don't know what but something. It turned out to be a very very mild soft core...not limp core porn movie about an alien diddling bad actresses...stay away!

I got fooled into thinking that I was buying the impossible to find, cult hit "Forbidden Zone." This is a sub zero cheapo-for creepos that was probably shot in three days. They stole the title to trick people.

A guilty pleasure, I confess my relatively high rating for this sexy flick (calling it soft-core maybe a bit too much, since there is not that much nudity in it) cannot be explained or defended in a rational way. Five beautiful babes in a sauna, as they describe their somewhat similar fantasies, slowly realize they have been abducted by a not too handsome alien in the past. Shot in Romania, the cast includes centerfold Pia Reyes but the one who gets more screen time is the unknown blonde Meredyth Holmes, who is really very beautiful. The unknown redhead (probably a Romanian) is really beautiful, too.

As I watched this (actually half watched, half fast forwarded), I couldn't help but think it had to be written by a woman. Five attractive females, in various stages of undress, sitting in a (Romanian) sauna discussing sexual fantasies. Sounds like a winner but never got off the ground.

Women discussing there experiences being ravaged by aliens could have been extremely hot, but its all too "chicky". Too much time spent talking about their "feelings", and so-called "erotic" scenes that play too soft - a lot of cutting away on the good parts, nothing explicit, no pink, not even much "boobage" (disappointing, as the actresses are well-endowed and not the standard plastic b-movie chicks), not enough skin, not enough heat (save one half-a** solo scene, they never get it on in the sauna!), too much talking and nothing went anywhere. Imagine scenes with them being examined, nude, on stainless steel tables, or forced to breed, or being fondled and probed. Alas, we got none of that, just some cheesy Harlequine romance-type female blathering.

The movie could/should have been half as long. Any coincidence most of these actresses, despite looking good, never made another movie? Check it out only if you get it dirt cheap.

Until "Alien Abduction" there was a considerable unbridged distance between your basic high-end "soft core" movie and your basic poorly written/generally unwatchable feature (insert "Zoolander" here). "Alien Abduction" successfully links the two categories. Whether that is a good thing is up to the viewer.

How I ended up watching this thing is more interesting than anything in the movie. Since the movie failed to attract much of an audience when released, its title was changed. The original title of "Alien Abduction: Intimate Secrets" was prefixed with "Forbidden Zone" which causes it to be confused with Susan Tyrell's cult classic "Forbidden Zone". Even the IMDb is confused and when you click the Amazon VHS link for "Forbidden Zone" you end up with "Alien Abduction". So trusting souls like myself end up owning a copy of something unlikely to ever be considered a cult classic.

Not that it is a total loss, the missing link thing is kind of interesting and it is also interesting that this was pretty much an acting career killer for the five very attractive women featured in this film. Not that they exhibited much acting talent. Former Playboy centerfold Pia Reyes is probably the best to the lot. Meredyth Holmes gets the most screen time and has one of those strange faces that looks gorgeous when framed by a hat and rather ordinary otherwise (maybe her horrible haircut and dye job). Darcy Demoss has a lot more mileage on her than the other four and you wonder what she is doing in this thing. This was the last movie appearance for several of them and the remaining ones were out of the business a couple years later.

The story is totally uninteresting which is unfortunate because the women are attractive and non-plastic. They spend most of their time in a sauna (shot in Romania) engaged in girl banter with towels wrapped around them. They describe passionate fantasies to each other that somehow fail to be passionate when cut in as flashbacks. It would have been nice if something sexy or erotic took place in these sequences but it doesn't. There is some amusement value in the fact that these sequences are staged on sets that were obviously created for other movies (the budget must have all gone for salaries). There is an alien subplot but no one should care much about it because even the characters treat it listlessly.

At least Pia Reyes' fans will enjoy watching her.

This shot in Romania cheapie from Charles Band's Full Moon company (this was made before his Surrender Cinema producing arm began pumping them out fast and furious) is about three women who discover their most memorable erotic dreams actually occured on the night the trio's car broke down (or did it???) on a trip they were taking. Three dreamlike "erotic stories" follow. None of them make any real sense until the end, and even then it really isn't worth the effort of sitting through the movie to find out. Seeing the sets for Oblivion (a "major" Full Moon Production) recycled yet again (they were also used for another soft core epic called Petticoat Planet) produces a chuckle and a nod of admiration for Band's Cormanlike desire to save as much money as possible. Not enough bang for the buck.