I’ve heard about this sort of movie before; it was made for the London 48hr Film Festival, and generally, what a “forty eight hour film festival” is is a festival for short films that were shot in forty eight hours.  They’re usually given a topic or specific directions to follow, and the result is shown for the enjoyment of all.

This time, we’re looking at Abducted, and the theme for this one was clearly “duct tape”.  When production of a British horror movie is going clearly south, about the only thing that can save the production is…well…murder.  And when the cast and crew start dying off, the race is on to find out who’s handling the…tape roll…before it’s too late!

There will be some very clever twists here, and overall it’s a solid enough short, but there’s one real problem here, and that’s that it moves entirely too fast.  Sections of important connective dialogue and action are glossed over in an attempt to keep runtime artificially low.  This leaves the final production feeling rushed and cluttered, which is a huge problem as far as I’m concerned.

But overall, this still comes out solidly, and the Screenhead Ten Scale agrees, giving Abducted a solid eight out of ten.  If they’d slowed down a bit and taken their time, the rating likely would have been higher.  But even rushed, this is still good stuff.