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Kerry Bellessa’s “Amber Alert” is one to watch out for due to the tension. A child abductor on the run and a rideshare in hot pursuit makes for a pretty straightforward plot. But the plot still keeps wheeling, a rarity among films of this type. “Amber Alert” centers around the serendipitous partnership of two strangers to rescue a child following a cat-and-mouse game with the kidnapper. Whether they catch him or get caught instead is explored in this article, but the thrill is one for the keeps.

What is an Amber Alert?

Amber, a short form for America’s Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response, was launched in the year 1996 following the shocking abduction and death of nine-year-old Amber Hagerman in Arlington, Texas. The alert now adopted all over the States, is issued when a child drives dangerously close to death. The Amber alert is really standing on an incredibly intricate...

The Texas Department of Public Safety accidentally issued an Amber Alert on Friday featuring doll characters from the Child's Play horror movie series. In the alert, Glen Ray, Chucky's plastic son introduced in the wacky sequel Seed of Chucky, is listed as an abducted 5-year-old child. He is described as standing at 2'3" and weighing six pounds, dressed in a "blue shirt with black collar." A picture of Glen from Seed of Chucky was also included.

The "suspect" was named as Chucky from Child's Play, complete with an image of the killer doll. According to the Amber Alert, he is 3'1" tall and 16 pounds, wearing "blue denim overalls with multi-colored striped long sleeve shirt" and "wielding a huge kitchen knife." Along with the Amber Alert descriptions of Glen and Chucky was a number to call, though the number does not actually work.

It should have been obvious to most everyone...

Earlier this week, a grainy black-and-white video allegedly depicting the abduction of Karol Sanchez, a 16-year-old Bronx, New York teenager, began circulating on Twitter. The video appeared to show two men grabbing Sanchez off the street and shoving her into a car before speeding away, leaving her terrified mother alone on the street. Within the span of just a few hours, what had initially appeared to be a clear-cut kidnapping case morphed into something much darker. On Tuesday, police reported that Sanchez had been found unharmed, and that she had...