After the aliens notice the brothers and open fire, Tommy and his family draw up plans to defend against the extra-terrestrial threat. Tommy and his brothers set out to investigate the outage and come across a UFO and fierce-looking aliens using a laser to dissect a cow. His sister has also just returned from college with a black boyfriend – something that does not sit well with older brother and family patriarch Kurt, who makes his narrow-minded feelings known to all.īefore this drama can escalate, the McPherson farmhouse loses power. It’s quite clear from the start of Tommy’s recording that his family is hardly happy his recently bereaved mother has become an alcoholic and none of Tommy’s older siblings seem to want to address the problem. Here’s a (relatively) spoiler free summary of the synopsis: Tommy McPherson, a teenager in Minnesota, is making a home movie of his family’s Thanksgiving dinner. Each interviewee offers their thoughts on what’s happening at that moment in the footage, what the motives of the aliens are and why certain family members are acting the way they are. These short segments feature Ufologists, law-enforcement officers, a child psychologist and even a punk rocker with a terrible British accent. To make the faux-documentary angle all the more believable, the footage of Lake County is interjected with what we’re supposed to believe are real ‘interviews’. What he purportedly captured on his video camera was more than just a family get together”. In many ways, Lake County spearheaded the birth of the ‘found footage’ sub-genre and director Dean Alioto should be applauded for helping it come to fruition.Īs the film begins, viewers are told: “In the fall of 1997, a sixteen-year-old boy set out to document his family’s Thanksgiving dinner. This lack of fanfare or hype meant it stayed under the radar for many and the fact that The Blair Witch Project was released shortly after did not help matters, which is a shame. This pseudo-documentary horror never had a cinematic outing and was instead released direct to TV in 1998. Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake Countyis a little-known ‘found footage’ style movie that tells the story of an alien attack on a rural American family enjoying a Thanksgiving dinner.
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