U.F.O. Abduction (1989)
Genre: Mockumentary / Scifi
Duration: 66 minuten
Alternative titles: The McPherson Tape / UFO Abduction
Country:
United States
Directed by: Dean Alioto
Stars: Tommy Giavocchini, Patrick Kelley and Christine Staples
IMDb score:
5,3 (2.587)
Releasedate: 1 January 1989
U.F.O. Abduction plot
"The uncut video footage from the North Woods, Connecticut U.F.O. Case 77"
On a typical spring evening in 1983, a young man films his five-year-old niece's birthday party. He also films the strange events that take place in and around the house. Slowly but surely panic sets in.
Actors and actresses
Eric Van Heese
Jason Van Heese
Shirly McCalla
Renee Reynolds
Jamie Van Heese
Michelle Van Heese
Michael Van Heese
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Reviews & comments
Woland
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- 4810 messages
- 3827 votes
Pretty charming idea, and I also have great respect for this attempt by Dean Alioto to make a film with a budget of absolutely zero. The idea of the film is that this is a camcorder recording of a birthday party, after which mysterious lights and creatures are spotted. I've read several times (and by the way also on the cover above) that many people thought that this actually happened, but that seems like a monkey sandwich from the makers, I can't imagine it at all. The idea is nice, and the accompanying quality of the image (an 80s camcorder, so a lot of rubbish) fits the setting, but the problem is that everything that has to do with the UFO and aliens ( which is honestly not that much) is obviously fake. The aliens are clearly people in a suit, and do little at all except walk around a bit now and then; there is nothing to see of any supernatural effects except for some moving light and some noise. And that actually leaves an hour of watching a panicking family - who actually act quite nicely, don't you think, but that's how nice it is not. I am now curious about the slightly more budget remake that Alioto later made, Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County (1998) , but this one is a bit too no-budget and boring for me to give a sufficient.
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remorz
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- 2498 messages
- 2753 votes
As home video/found footage actually completely credible. As a film almost unwatchable.
It almost seems as if the script consisted of five lines and that the cast (in addition to direction instructions such as "and then you see something moving through the window") was given complete freedom to discuss, run and shout over each other. Inimitable. The fact that you can hardly see anything as a viewer due to the constantly dark sets and poor image quality, quickly brings down the entire experience. It has become a long sitting (and that for 66 minutes!) and I may have been distracted more often than usual or went to the toilet or made tea.
Somewhere this can still be reduced to an effective found footage film of a maximum of 10 minutes. But that is hardly a compliment anymore.
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