This is a ‘fake’. Before you tar and feather me, please hear me out. First, this was originally called “The Mcpherson tape” and produced 7 years prior to “Blair Witch”. It was sold to a small distributor who later had there main office burn down. Five years after producing the video, the director remade this as “Alien Abduction”. It was released on UPN a year prior to Blair Witch…and rumor is that the creators of the original “Blair Witch” movie were inspired by this movie in the way it was filmed.

In the original version, the kid goes to the bathroom and talks to the video, when he comes out the house is empty, he turns around and there is an alien there. Sharp intake of breath, then the camera falls. You see the kid frozen and the camera fills with static as the alien reaches a hand to the kid.

In the remake, the remaining family members sit around the kitchen table, dealing cards to play ‘Go-Fish’ to take their mind off things. The camera is placed on the kitchen counter and aimed half at the actors and half down the hall to the front door. The little girl is implied pulling a ‘close encounters’ and opening the front door for the aliens to come inside. The aliens move into the house, putting the family in a trance-like state by raising their hands at the family members, and then walk them out of frame. An alien aims it’s hand at the camera and the screen ‘snows over’.

This isn’t a ‘hoax’ however as the producer/director intentionally was just making a film and wasn’t trying to fool anyone. UPN went behind his back and removed the ‘The events you are about to see are not real’ tag that was supposed to be there after each commercial. They hyped it as real.

Anyway, if you do think it is real watch the film to the end. There are credits for the actors and what roll they play…even the aliens are given credits. A quick google search pulls this up.

For a made-for-tv film, created in 1996-1997 for $900,000, it isn’t bad!

FAIL.