UFO Abduction

But the other one...

The other one is the Macpherson Tapes.

I don't know if you've seen that.

Do you know what?

I've got it on.

It's like a Blu-ray double thing.

It's the Macpherson Tapes and is it called the Stone Tapes or something? I've got it.

I've got it to watch.

They'd already had the last broadcast.

There's a movie that I just found out about called Alien Abduction or UFO Abduction that was made in 89.

Yes, that's a proto version of the Blair Witch because.

Cannibal Holocaust, which you would know about.

Well, like I said, there had been other found footage movies before, but I think Blair Witch perfected it.

Mm-hmm.

And I mentioned UFO abduction.

The thing that's different about UFO abduction versus the last broadcast is that like Blair Witch, it's just the footage.

I'm going to go with a weird one, which is the McPherson tapes.

Yeah, the McPherson tape, which is the sort of pseudo-handheld camera taping of an alien abduction visitation by a family.

Let me make sure I'm not... saying anything wrong because i really love it but yeah so it's from 89 uh dean aliotto is the director and that's the reason i love it so much is because it's still to this day kind of passed around as like a great example of like aliens really caught on film like and so it kind of despite it being released on blu-ray like has as a horror film with the director's name attached to it with all this like extra content about the filming of it it still has this like other life as like a meme of like you know not as much as it did maybe 15 years ago when like the first time i saw it i saw it as like a youtube video on like, you know, a compilation of like real alien encounters, like with some of the other classic ones, like the alien interview and stuff like that.

Um, so what, yeah, I love that.

I've been trying to find some and they're all very silly looking.

Because like in the McPherson tape that I told you, it was just some kids walking around with some alien mask on.

And I'm like, damn it.

Damn it.

I watched them yesterday.

It was, uh, It's called the McPherson Tapes.

It's an alien invasion, but it was filmed in 1989 as a found footage film.

Oh, wow.

I'm going to have to look that up because there are some actual paranormal... stories and things that involve similar stuff so i'm gonna have to look that up

is it the mcpherson tape yes that sounds right it was an m word

it was a uh 1989 uh like found footage alien abduction

yes

Um, and that format, uh, that this movie started has become massively, massively popular in the last 15 years.

Um, this movie, along with, uh, The McPherson Tape and, uh, to some degree, uh, Cannibal Holocaust, are kind of all responsible and predate the Blair Witch for the whole found footage mockumentary sort of, um, horror film.

So Drew, had you ever heard of this before I brought it to your attention last week?

I, I had not ever heard of this before, no.

Film historian Alexandra Heller-Nicholas once wrote, "Found footage is at its most powerful when it weaponizes authenticity," and I think Cannibal Holocaust did exactly that.

And in 1989, there was The McPherson Tape.

Shot on consumer-grade VHS, this film presented itself as a home video of a family's alien encounter.

It circulated in underground circles, often mislabeled as real evidence.

Unfortunately.

Um, the director, Eduardo Sanchez of, uh, Blair Witch Project, um, teased that him and the director of The McPherson Tape are working on a project together, which I think that's cool.

You know, that kind of makes sense, right? Because McPherson Tape came, what-

'99

... decade before Blair Witch in '99.