Sentences with phrase «abduction stories»

, Season 1, Episode 3: Probing alien abduction stories with a visit to a UFO convention.

In episode 103, Penn & Teller spend three days at a UFO convention and visit an alien - abduction group therapy session as they explore the psychological explanations for - and the influences of pop culture on - the typical abduction story.

Its story - within - the - story, starring Jake Gyllenhaal as an everyman whose wife and young daughter are abducted on a Texas highway late one night, is far more compelling than its framing story, in which Amy Adams mostly reads an unpublished novel (which tells the abduction story; it was written by her character's ex-husband, also played by Gyllenhaal) and looks miserably rich.

If you haven't read it, the book — Fowles» first published novel — is an abduction story that seems classic now but was actually one of the early takes on the topic when it was published in 1963.

The Collector was published in 1963 and is an abduction story told in a particularly chilling fashion: The abductor (a man who becomes obsessed with a beautiful student) first tells his story of hiding a woman in the cellar of a country house.

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One of the most popular and enduring stories involving the eagle describes the Abduction of Ganymede.

Austin How can we tell the difference between your «authoritative revelation of the Spirit» and someone else's memories of reincarnation, alien abduction experience, or ghost story?

More than Rice by Pamala Kennedy Chestnut follows the story of one young girl named Gabriela from her abduction in Manila, to a brothel in Malaysia where she is housed with dozens of other girls who are forced into sex slavery.

It was around that time that parents were bombarded with news stories about child abductions, academic competition, and, ultimately, competition in a global economy.

Do the endless media stories about abductions, Child Sexual Abuse and other crimes have you concerned?

So how and why would an individual develop a story line as unusual as an alien abduction?

Scary Sleep Paralysis Stories: Awake in a Nightmare... — Sleep paralysis is often confused for paranormal activity or alien abduction.

It's a story straight out of a John le Carré spy thriller complete with secret tape recordings, imprisonment, abductions, and banal conversations laced with ominous subtext.

But the implementation of those story missions, involving a borderline slapstick number of forced player abductions and cutscenes, leaves something to be desired.

He is waylaid by Bowser and several Koopa Troopas masquerading as Toads, who aid Bowser during Princess Peach's second abduction in that story.

However, because the story is told primarily from the point of view of the parents and the cops — the «normals,» so to speak — and because the plotting is so airport - novel silly (a flashback to the cop's abduction could have been plucked from a low - rent Bourne knockoff), any thematic interest winds up buried underneath a mountain of lurid implausibility.

Unfortunately, in a story about overcoming reflexive fears and animus to discover human commonalities, they're relegated to the background of a narrative that asks the audience to believe in sudden reversals and changes of heart, as well as nearly every ambush, abduction, near - rape and showdown in the Western playbook.

If you look at the actual story, which has one of my strongest narratives... the trade - off of one abduction for another... it becomes less about plot than about these two women travelling around together against a swirl of corruption.

Most filmmakers would turn a story about a mysterious child abduction and grieving parents desperate to save their kids into a cookie cutter psychological drama, then spice it up with a dash of teary melodrama and a pinch of hair - bristling thriller.

But potential audiences shouldn't let that keep them from journeying through the complicated morality maze that is this story of abduction, vigilantism and...

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Many of those she helps recount stories of abduction, forced labour, beatings, murder, rape and other human rights abuses.

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.

The story jumps between events before and after Mia Dennett's abduction, when she was held in a cabin in the woods by a guy whose motivations don't quite make sense.

One of the best of these abduction thrillers is Carla Norton's debut, The Edge of Normal, the story of a former kidnapping victim who uses her experience to help a fellow victim.

He is waylaid by Bowser and several Koopa Troopas masquerading as Toads, who aid Bowser during Princess Peach's second abduction in that story.

Being fan - made most lack the subtlety of the main game but honourable mentions go to the stories La Caza, Abduction and Through the Portal which have all won a recent competition on the Amnesia forums.

This case was reported on CBC, the Vancouver Sun, multiple child abduction websites, and later Leena was published with her story in the prestigious Canadian Lawyer Magazine.