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Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County

  • TV Movie
  • 1998
  • 1h 33m
IMDb RATING
6.3/10
3.7K
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Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County (1998)
DramaHorrorSci-Fi

After a mysterious blackout, a son goes out to investigate and captures footage of actual aliens. When the aliens follow him and his brothers back to their home, all hell breaks loose.After a mysterious blackout, a son goes out to investigate and captures footage of actual aliens. When the aliens follow him and his brothers back to their home, all hell breaks loose.After a mysterious blackout, a son goes out to investigate and captures footage of actual aliens. When the aliens follow him and his brothers back to their home, all hell breaks loose.

  • Director
    • Dean Alioto
  • Writers
    • Dean Alioto
    • Paul Chitlik
  • Stars
    • Benz Antoine
    • Kristian Ayre
    • Gillian Barber
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.3/10
    3.7K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Dean Alioto
    • Writers
      • Dean Alioto
      • Paul Chitlik
    • Stars
      • Benz Antoine
      • Kristian Ayre
      • Gillian Barber
    • 101User reviews
    • 16Critic reviews
  • See production, box office & company info
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    Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County (1998)
    Emmanuelle Chriqui and Michael Buie in Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County (1998)
    Katlyn Ducharme and Ingrid Kavelaars in Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County (1998)
    Kristian Ayre in Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County (1998)
    Emmanuelle Chriqui in Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County (1998)
    Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County (1998)
    Kristian Ayre in Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County (1998)
    Aaron Pearl in Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County (1998)
    Kristian Ayre in Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County (1998)
    Aaron Pearl in Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County (1998)
    Gillian Barber in Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County (1998)
    Benz Antoine in Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County (1998)

    Top cast

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    Benz Antoine
    Benz Antoine
    • Matthew
    Kristian Ayre
    • Tommy
    Gillian Barber
    Gillian Barber
    • Mom
    Michael Buie
    Michael Buie
    • Brian
    Emmanuelle Chriqui
    Emmanuelle Chriqui
    • Renee
    Marya Delver
    Marya Delver
    • Melanie
    Katlyn Ducharme
    • Rosie
    Ingrid Kavelaars
    Ingrid Kavelaars
    • Linda
    Aaron Pearl
    Aaron Pearl
    • Kurt
    Dean Alioto
    Dean Alioto
    • Damian Hawkins
    Bart Anderson
    • Professor Green
    Gary Hetherington
    Gary Hetherington
    • Colonel Hampton
    Gareth Moses
    • Julian Bond
    Suzanne Ristic
    • Aileen Burchess
    Jim Smith
    • Sheriff Tilson
    Oliver Tan
    • Jason Arnett
    • (as Oliver Svensson Tan)
    Shahai Khademi
    • Alien 1
    • (as Shari Khademi)
    Myles Wolf
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    • Director
      • Dean Alioto
    • Writers
      • Dean Alioto(story)
      • Paul Chitlik(teleplay)
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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      After the film aired, the network polled the audience, and half the viewers thought the footage was real. This was in spite of the end credits for the performers playing the aliens.
    • Goofs
      When somebody shot the alien with a sawnoff shotgun inside of a hallway, you can obviously tell that there was a cap in the gun. If the gun was real, then there would be a loud blast that would be louder than the gun cap.
    • Quotes

      Tommy: Oh man. You know what I think I peed my pants... pans the camera down... Oh I did, I PEED MY PANTS! IM LOSING IT HERE I PEED MY PANTS, MAN! WHAT'S UP WITH THAT!

    • Alternate versions
      Dean Alioto's director's cut runs a little over 91 minutes. This version was distributed on video in Europe. The full cut puts Tommy's encounter with an alien around the film's middle and ends with Rosie letting three aliens into the house who then hypnotize and abduct the remaining family members.
    • Connections
      Referenced in Adjust Your Tracking (2013)

    User reviews101

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    7/10
    The poor acting immediately betrays the fact that it isn't real, but there are some really good ideas here and it's quite well made for what it is
    A found footage alien abduction movie that originally aired on the UPN network in January of 1998. Much like the contemporaneous Blair Witch Project, many were convinced it was real. It's very clearly not. The acting is very amateurish. The film is broken up with interviews from experts. One of them, a film director, claims that it has to be real because it has no real plot. The fact is, not only does the film have a very basic horror movie plot, it also has about half a dozen subplots, like mom's alcoholism (the woman carries a wine glass even while running from aliens) or sister's dating a black man. No matter, though. For what it is, it's actually very well done. It's quite frightening. I'm surprised it didn't lead to bigger things for the director. I suspect, given which network it aired on, that almost no one saw it at the time. This is actually the second version of the film. The first was made nine years earlier. Both versions can be found on Youtube.
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    • Oct 21, 2013

    Details

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    • Release date
      • January 20, 1998 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • The McPherson Tape
    • Filming locations
      • Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
    • Production company
      • Dick Clark Productions
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 33 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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