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tonight's feature: The McPherson Tape (1989) on Shudder
For what it was at the time, The McPherson Tape is pretty cool. The concept: a family celebrating a child's birthday party are interrupted by an alien invasion and everything is caught on home video. The beginning is pretty believable in a "damn, what an annoying family in a grainy home video" kind of way. Then suddenly these 'brothers' see a UFO and begin having an extended panic attack. The hysterics are cut down by the womenfolk in the house, who get everyone calmed and back to birthday party fun. The little grey men return and the panic resumes, until later on, when they decide to play a card game. Filming the entire thing non-stop is younger brother Michael who just recently bought his fancy new video camera.
I guess for 66 minutes it isn't too bad. Ok I'm kidding, it's difficult to watch the entire thing. Maybe 15 minutes of it are key and the rest is just painful, especially the fake panicked chaos. Kudos for coming up with the idea and making a lot of UFO diehards think it was the real thing for decades. Also good job making one long running shot into a movie so you didn't have to do any editing. 3 birthday parties ruined by an alien invasion out of 10.
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