The original 1989 film, titled "The McPherson Tape (U.F.O. Abduction)" - [ Ссылка ] - was released on Blu-Ray on April 28, 2020.
*This* film is a remake that was made by the same director (Dean Alioto) 10 years later in 1998 - [ Ссылка ]
Originally broadcast on UPN under the title "Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County", in this remake, the family's name is actually "McPherson". (In the 1989 version it was "Van Heese", despite the title of "The McPherson Tape"). The budget was also increased, allowing for more elaborate effects, expanded characters, and more realistic looking aliens. It's also longer at 93 minutes, as opposed to the 66 minute run time of the original 1989 version.
The only known version of this 1998 remake to exist today is a capture of a PAL VHS copy, released on the Internet in the early 2000's by "Elite Owl". This has since become public domain and is available for download here: [ Ссылка ]
At the above archive.org link, there is a straight h.264 upscale, and also an encode that appears to be re-encoded from the original Elite Owl release at the original resolution of 384 x 288 pixels. (It's the "Cinepack" version).
Being a low resolution VHS capture from the early 2000's, the quality is obviously horrible. But, for now, it's all we have to work with.
This upload is an attempt to get this old video looking as good as possible using today's technology. It includes speed correction to 23.976, denoising, color/level correction, and upscaling using Topaz Video Enhance AI. While it's HD resolution, only so much improvement is possible with machine learning based upscaling from such a low resolution and poor quality original source. But, any improvement is better! (Even though it still looks pretty bad lmao.)
Hopefully in the future it can be either made to look better, or maybe it can get a Blu-Ray release from a better master, as was done with the original 1989 version.
