Incannerax What a waste of my time!!!

Inclubabu Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Tobias Burrows It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

B-MovieDork Ah, the infamous "real" McPherson Tape. Hugely controversial among the alien abduction enthusiasts, hundreds of people still think that this the real deal. Well, sorry to burst your bubble, but it isn't. Still, this is probably the most believable found footage movie I've ever seen, as it really does feel as if you're watching an actual VHS camcorder home video of a real Midwestern family in the early 1980s. The alien abductions themselves are not really the focus here. The focus seems to be the tension that this family feels while being scared out of their wits. I prefer this original version over the 1997 made-for-television remake, Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County, which screamed "fake" right from the get go: awful acting, no chemistry between the actors/characters, overblown effects and laughable "documentary interviews" interspersed to insult the viewer's intelligence. Even though this original version is bare bones and lacking in alien action, it still manages to be taught, atmospheric, well acted, and most of all, believable. This has been next to impossible to find for decades, but thankfully someone has uploaded a pirated copy on the internet recently. If you are a fan of the remake, aliens/UFOs, found footage or just underground cinema in general, do yourself a favor and check it out. But just remember, its only a movie! There is no REAL "McPherson Tape" floating around out there. The name of the family in this original version isn't even McPherson, its Van Heese.

mikeesimmons Im not going to waste to much time on this film...what are people thinking when they say "scary" are you kidding I've seen scarier care bear movies, the acting is shocking the whole think is soooo set up and I mean my 15 year old brother could make more realistic alien's in his school lessons...! Don't waste your time unless within 20 minutes of watching you want to split your sides with laughing due to the bad acting and the shoddy effects...! SPOILER - I mean at one point after the blokes see the aliens they actually sit down to eat a meal? Would you do that? And also through most of the house scene the mother is still carrying a glass of wine, think I would have dropped that a while back if anything was near real??

birdsflyhi I LOVED THE MOVIE and I'm looking desperately to BUY IT.. if anyone has a copy they would like to sell please contact me! It's about a family who gets abducted by aliens, and at the end of it they give a list of all the family members. I'm not sure if it's real, but the whole story is very scary and well done.

Jim-510 The McPherson Tape is an arguably true story about the McPherson family who had met up for Thanksgiving like any other normal American family, totally unaware as to what the night would hold for them. The family are visited by Aliens, I hear you say " Yeah Yeah another alien abduction story ", but this is an alien story with a difference!. The difference here is that a camcorder tape was left behind from the Thanksgiving celebration from hell. The actor's themselves play their parts well at times it looks like ' Ham Acting ' but these are real emotions we are seeing. A great movie with interesting points of discussion, a TEN star rating from me.