Absence (2013) #378

The movie "Absence" is a fine little film if you're only interested in watching a home movie about a family vacation and not a horror or Sci-Fi film about alien abductions...but that is what the film is supposed to be about. The director and co-writer of the screenplay, Jimmy Loweree, apparently wanted to make a movie about aliens that abduct people as well as their unborn children, but had no ideas in which to share with the audience except for the rushed abduction at the very and a few insipid "weird lights" in the distance moments in the middle. I kept watching the film hoping that it had a slow burn kind of approach to the action but sadly it never came. The concept of a soon-to-be-mom suddenly losing her child without any idea how or where it went caught my eye but the filmmakers obviously had no clue on where to take the story after it's initial opening sequence. It is films like these that waste people's time and spoil a cool and refreshing concept, ruining it for others who may have had an actual story to tell.