The McPherson Tape

MOVIE #1,070 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 07.19.23 Proclaimed to be the first ever “found footage” movie and really who’s to say otherwise? Let’s be honest, that’s the only reason me or anybody else is checking thing out. There’s a certain charm to no-budget VHS aesthetic but the early banter is unbearable — adult men acting like 12yo boys — which is more annoying than forced. I think the acting is fine for what this is, honestly. The aliens and spaceship are shot from a distance at night and alongside that VHS grain, you can’t see how bad they look (but you can clearly guess: i.e., very very bad).

Kind of hilariously the director actually remade this a decade later with a bunch more money (comparatively speaking) that aired on UPN. Both movies are on YouTube here and here.

I don’t think I’d necessarily recommend this unless you are a huge psycho for such things.

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UFO Abduction (aka The McPherson Tape) is a 1989 American science fiction horror, found-footage film, written, produced, and directed by Dean Alioto. The film centers on a family who are terrorized by extraterrestrials during a birthday celebration. It was released on January 14, 1989.