An abduction thriller is a type of story, usually a movie or a book, that focuses on the suspenseful and thrilling events surrounding a kidnapping or abduction of a person. Full definition
This fall's publishing season has a lot of abduction thrillers, an especially creepy trend considering the real - life stories of the three women in Ohio who were found this year after being held in captivity for a decade. (bookpage.com)
Turkey two was this latest from wobbling director Atom Egoyan, a child abduction thriller starring Ryan Reynolds. (theguardian.com)
When director Robert Allen Schnitzer (Rebel, 1970) purchased the original script for The Premonition, it was just a conventional abduction thriller with some social concerns but no supernatural elements whatsoever. (blog.thehorrorshow.tv)