A Glance Into "The Fourth Kind"
By Breandon Smith

The clip for the chilling alien abduction suspenseful story "The Fourth Kind", which premiers in theaters Nov. 6, bears an instant stamp of authenticity: A straight-faced Milla Jovovich strolls toward the camera while identifying herself as the actress portraying Dr. Abigail Tyler, the movie's heroine. In succeeding quick-cut scenes, several of which look like home video footage, Jovovich interrogates frightened patients, all of whom recount similarly ominous extraterrestrial encounters. At least one individual appears to fall into ancient Sumerian through hypnosis, and an expert talks regarding millennium-old hieroglyphics containing images of astronauts.

"This is a dramatization of events that occurred in Oct. 2000", Jovovich intones. "Every scene in this movie is supported by archive footage".

Nevertheless is it?

The motion picture revolves around a sequence of real-life disappearances that took place in Nome, Alaska caused, while the film suggests, by aliens. But at the same time as local newspapers have revealed, the FBI ruled the disappearances were due to too much alcohol consumption and the harsh winters. There's a bio of Dr. Abigail Tyler on the net, cite an article she published within the June 1997 issue of the American Journal psychotherapy. Though neither Tyler's employer nor her Alma Mater is listed, the journals name is rendered incorrectly (it's American Journal of Psychiatry) and a colleague mentioned taking part in the bio, Dr. Samuel Burden, M.D., appears simply taking part in relationship with references to "The Fourth Kind" if searched for on-line.

Universal, the movies distributor, seems to be taking a page from the marketing lines of "The Blair Witch Project" and, more recently, "Paranormal Activity" two movies that had a documentary approach. Part of the fun of those films was based on the detail to facilitate they seemed real. (Both "The Blair Witch Project" and "Paranormal Activity" were fiction.) Of course, how real-sounding is a subplot around alien abductions, anyway? Universal has declined to comment on articles regarding questions on just how accurate the movie is.

One point approaching "The Fourth Kind" that seems based on truth: The alarmed state of the patients within the preview match real-life reactions of persons who believe they have been abducted by aliens, according to Christopher C. French, who teaches in the field of the psychology department at Goldsmiths College in London and routinely lectures on the matter of said alien abductions.

Although the film claims to be a reenactment of genuine events, several viewers who have seen the promo are still suspect of its validity. According to Anchorage Daily News, nobody has heard of Tyler, if she's a real person or one more fabrication of the studio to make the film look like another "Blair Witch" project.

When the paper asked Universal if the whole movie is a fake, the studio had no comment

Universal Studios, American Journal of Psychiatry, Anchorage Daily News

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1n 1972, a scale of measurement was established for alien encounters. When a ufo is sighted, it is called an encounter of the first kind. When evidence is collected, it is known as an encounter of the second kind. When contact is made with extraterrestrials, it is the third kind. The next level, abduction, is the fourth kind. This encounter has been the most difficult to document-until now. Set in modern-day Nome, Alaska, where--mysteriously since the 1960s--a disproportionate number of the population has been reported missing every year. Despite multiple FBI investigations of the region, the truth has never been discovered. Here in this remote region, psychologist Dr. Abigail Tyler began videotaping sessions with traumatized patients and unwittingly discovered some of the most disturbing evidence of alien abduction ever documented

Movie Review: The Fourth Kind - I Dare You To Watch It Alone by George Hutton

If you love psychological thrillers, then you'll definitely love "The Fourth Kind." It is a movie with no blood, no monsters, and minimal violence, yet it is utterly terrifying. This review may contain a few spoilers, so read at your own risk.

Before the movie begins, we are met with the actress who plays the main character talking directly to the audience. She claims the movie is based on true events, and leaves it up to the viewer to make up our own minds. This gives the movie a surprising edge of realism that is difficult to find these days.

The whole film has this "real footage" effect to it. Several of the shots are shown in split screen style, with the actors portraying a scene on one shot, and "original" footage on the other shot. Whether or not this "original" footage is indeed original is up for debate, but it doesn't take away from the realness of the movie.

This kind of realism is present throughout the movie, giving the impression that you are watching events exactly as they unfolded nearly thirty years ago, giving this an extra terrifying edge. Supposedly, thirty years ago in a small town in Alaska, there were several unexplained disappearances. This movie is a supposed reenactment of the reason why.

The basic story is that a psychologist, played by Milla Jovovich, is seeing several patients who all are suffering from what would be called "night terrors." They all share a similar vision of a white owl outside their bedroom window.

When one of the patients enters hypnosis to try and remember better, he suddenly remembers the terror of what has been happening at night. This is where the movie gets its name. "The Fourth Kind" refers to the level of encounter with an alien entity, with the fourth kind meaning abduction.

One patient, after a particular frightening hypnosis session, becomes so agitated and frightened that he kills his family before killing himself. The police believe that the psychologist has inadvertently caused the murders through her hypnosis.

As this psychologist begins to unravel the mystery behind her patients troubles, she begins to have troubles herself. Her own daughter is abducted, and the police, of course, don't believe anything about alien involvement and believe she had something to do with it.

Regardless of the veracity of this, and what actually did cause those disappearances, the way this movie was crafted gives it a particular scary edge. Oftentimes, the scariest things are the ones just outside of our perception, and are made up wholly in our minds. This movie does a great job of allowing us to do just that.


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