Synopsis
We are not alone
After a mysterious blackout, a son goes out to investigate and captures footage of actual aliens. When the aliens follow he and his brothers back to their home all hell breaks lose.
1998 Directed by Dean Alioto
After a mysterious blackout, a son goes out to investigate and captures footage of actual aliens. When the aliens follow he and his brothers back to their home all hell breaks lose.
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I made this film with my partner Paul Chitlik. Glad ya dig it, and also glad if you only dug parts of it ;) Sad that the TV movie is still not released. However, for the anniversary of the original McPherson Tape aka UFO Abduction, that Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County was based on, I digitally remastered the original and am now making it available. Here's the link... www.UFOabductionMovie.com. Also, feel free to ask me any questions here that you have about either film.
Cheers,
Dean Alioto
Ok so I started watching this version of Alien Abduction: Incident In Lake County only to wind up watching the UPN 1998 broadcast version, which is half as long, chopped all to bits and overlaid with music and more 'experts' discoursing on the veracity of this tape, etc. I still haven't seen UFO Abduction (1989) but I will try at some point. What I am fascinated by is how haunted a space and time the 1990's were, like a shadow was cast backwards onto the past from an immense future of forever war, police state dystopia, universal surveillance, a government run for profit and rapture. The 90's were a dreamspace of what was to come, a prophecy and a forerunner,…
Last night, I thought I had seen the strongest mockumentary (that I had watched) in some time, when I decided to check out 2015's Savageland on Amazon (it wasn't released in the U.S. until last February). After this viewing experience, I'm not so sure anymore. The Letterboxd description isn't lying when it utilizes the phrase, "all hell breaks loose," to describe the vast majority of the film. Batshit bonkers from beginning to end, Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County is an overlooked gem of an extraterrestrial movie from 1998, taking us on a POV-style journey through a nightmare of a Thanksgiving evening for the McPherson family.
Three brothers are spotted after stumbling across a pair of otherworldly beings approach a…
just some related alien tips not a review for this movie but if u see a alien u should prolly just show it ur titties and hope for the best. i know in the moment that might not be your first thought but hopefully while your life flashes before your eyes you'll remember my advice. i mean even if it abducts you think about all the free medical care you'll receive! if any alien is reading this i consent to your procedures but if ur digging around inside me anyway pleasseeeee fix my garbage tooth amen!
Basically, it's cheaply made and poorly written, but the actors are trying their best to be purely naturalistic and the cloak of night lends it a diffuse sense of atmosphere. The best part, sincerely, is the deliberate absence of sound during scenes when characters are hearing music, and how creepy it is when the characters react to a sound we cannot hear — perhaps a trick that would only work for found footage and cleverer than anything The Blair Witch Project tried. The aliens, scarcely glimpsed, are also very cool and spooky. I'm actually a bit disappointed that I missed out on seeing this during my teens.
The McPherson family's Thanksgiving dinner is interrupted by aliens. The alien encounter is caught on film by their teenage son in this remake of found footage film The McPherson Tape by the same director. The bigger budget and experience on the earlier film comes in handy as this version of the McPherson's alien encounter has better performances, better effects and much less obnoxious camera work. The characters are also a little less annoying but the family's constant arguing does still occasionally begin to grate.
This version features cutaways to interviews with experts and government officials that don't really add anything and interrupt the flow of the movie. Considering this premiered on TV, they feel like they only exist to pad…
Roselyn with a glass of wine in her hand for the entirety of the movie in the middle of an alien abduction... a mood.
Little gem at the crossroads of the proto-found footage genre and 1990s alien conspiracy paranoia. This is very, very much a product of its time and place, and if you can transport your brain to the late night UPN landscape of 1998, populated by shitty tabloid fodder and halfhearted attempts at various forms of exploitation, you’ll be in the proper headspace.
As always, there’s some stuff that an audience just has to accept with the found footage thing. The cameraman in this one is exceedingly silly, insisting on filming everything for no real reason well beyond the point where no human with an ounce of rationality is going to be bothering. The acting is awful, and one wonders how much…
la empezamos pensando que sería una basura por el póster tan curioso que tiene pero terminamos espantadas y paranóicas, no queríamos abrirle a nadie y ahora tampoco queremos salir ☠️
me hizo feliz!! ni tiempo me dio de fijarme en si actuaban mal o no, 10/10 por eso
This could have been my perfect type of alien movie if they weren’t so dAMN ANNOYING.
P.D. If you don’t believe in aliens, choose a day and an hour cause darling, we are throwing hands
Very well put together found footage or POV flick or reality footage, whatever you wanna call it, film about a birthday party that descends into pure terror when a strobe of strange light sends them out of the house to investigate, then the family starts to defends itself against the aliens while all hell breaks loose inside the house. Dean Alioto wrote, produced and directed one of the most realistic found footage films ever made. A shame he did not did more after this one. It was shot in 1993! Can you believe that?! Studied and puzzled over by UFO investigators that after being told it was a film, they still didn't believe it! The final shot is just a chilling one.