This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Think about this, will you? The premise is that someone is video taping all this strange activity that's going on, right? The strange activity is because of aliens, right? So how come when the guy actually brings the alien into the house, the video guy doesn't even get a shot of it? Looks almost like he was avoiding getting a shot of it. He should have been all over that "alien" with his camera. Close ups. Clear as possible. Wouldn't you get shots of the alien if all you was doing was shooting everything else. We don't want to see your family running around. WE WANT TO SEE THE ALIEN! That is why this video is FAKE. Now, let's be reasonable, shall we. The camera guy is actually doing a great job, in the "situation". People are scared. Men are running around confused, trying to protect their family. They actually shoot down one of the aliens because of fear. Then, for some unknown reason, he brings the thing into the house where his family is actually hiding from it??? Don't make sense. And the videographer doesn't even get a shot of the most important thing to happen to mankind in history. IT'S FAKE PEOPLE.

I cannot believe that anyone actually takes any of this stuff seriously. It reminds me of my (reluctant) introduction to a TV program called 'Most Haunted'...my sides were splitting it was such a laugh, but eventually I became offended, as with this 'drama', that people take it seriously.That in fact it is punted to suggest we take it seriously. Please!Check out mom carrying her carefully scripted glass of wine through all the action. It's hysterical!please....watch it and laugh. Anything else...get a shrink.I also find the tearful face to camera quite sad, do we really live in a world where people play on our emotions and conspiracy theories this much?Please.........tell these people to tell 'Uncle Tommy' to really put the camera down and get back to acting lessons.

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.

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.