Abducted (1986)

Director:

Boon Collins

Writers:

Lindsay Bourne (writer)
Boon Collins (screenplay)

Genre:

Drama | Thriller

Tagline:

Her morning jog became a terrifying run for her life!

Plot:

A woman jogger is abducted by a crazy mountain man, and taken to his cabin.

Plot Keywords:

Jogger | Wilderness | Attempted Rape | Filicide | Jogging

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Dan Haggerty	...	Joe Evans
Roberta Weiss	...	Renee
Lawrence King-Phillips	...	Vern
William Nunn	...	Hunter
Stephen E. Miller	...	Guide
John Welsh	...	Search Party Leader
Jim Brown	...	Search Party
Rae Ford	...	Search Party
Harold J. McCullough	...	Search Party
Skip Borland	...	Search Party
Rob Morton	...	Search Party
Nelson Camiro	...	Search Party
Earl Jergens	...	Search Party
Roy Waggoner	...	Search Party

Also Known As:

Abduction

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Australia:R | UK:18 | USA:PG | Iceland:16

Filming Locations:

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Movie Connections:

Followed by Abducted II: The Reunion (1994)

Bad, or otherworldly?

I will be damned if Dan Haggerty, TV's own "Grizzly Adams", does not actually take his role in this no-budget, cheap exploitation flick seriously and truly do his best to act in this film. You are in the middle of watching what has got to be one of the most amateurishly acted and atrociously bad crazy-mountain-man-abducts-sweet-young-thing movies, and all of a sudden, the big burly blonde Haggerty shows up and seems to actually think he is in something by Strindberg.

This movie apparently had something of a following, although I can't imagine why, so repugnantly does it violate the natural order, even of exploitation films, and it even generated a sequel, which I have thankfully been spared having to watch.

I am all for chicks-in-distress films, and I was hoping to see a lot of torn clothing, bared breasts, some good rolling around in the dirt and some real rope bondage in lush outdoor settings. This movie sadly disappoints on all counts, even in the bondage area, and I never saw a mountain guy with more rope than Vern, our psychotic kidnapper. Renee, the hapless victim, played by a young woman who seems to be somewhere between unconscious and dead, is so laughably inept at doing anything but standing still that part of me was hoping she would end up as Mrs. Vern, despite her whining that she was unhappy being kidnapped and wanted to go home. The character of Vern, played with twisted fiendish glee, still basically makes no sense and the actor's performance falls flat, despite his enthusiasm. Only Haggerty's genuine attempts at delivering a performance of some substance save this from being a complete catastrophe from start to finish.

In the genre of kidnapped-girl-in-the-hands-of-a-madman movies, this is about as lame as you can get. Nice Canadian landscape, though.