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In remote Alaska, citizens have been mysteriously vanishing since the 1960s. Despite multiple FBI investigations, the truth behind the phenomena had never been discovered—until now. While videotaping therapy sessions with traumatized patients, psychologist Dr. Abigail Tyler (Milla Jovovich) unwittingly exposes terrifying revelations of multiple victims whose claims of being visited by alien figures all share disturbingly identical details. Based on actual case studies, The Fourth Kind uses Dr. Tyler’s never-before-seen archival footage alongside dramatic reenactments to present the most disturbing evidence ever documented in this provocative thriller critics are calling “terrifyingly real…The most shocking alien abduction movie to date.” –Tim Anderson, BLOODY-DISGUSTING.COMAmazon.com
Nome, Alaska: the edge of the world. What better place for the extraterrestrials to conduct their fiendish abduction experiments? Or so the makers of The Fourth Kind insist, in their grim attempt to reveal the truth about these mysterious disappearances. You know the movie means business when actress Milla Jovovich (as herself, without makeup, even) strides toward the camera in the opening moments and introduces things by warning us that we are about to see and hear actual tapes from psychotherapy sessions in which patients recover repressed memories. We might find it disturbing. Yes, but isn't that why we're watching the movie? Director Olatunde Osunsanmi soon appears onscreen himself, interviewing the real psychologist whom Jovovich plays, and throughout the film there are rough-looking videos of real people freaking out during hypnosis sessions--and even a bit of alien screeching caught on audio tape. Yep, it's all real, except it's all fake. The Fourth Kind has an ingenious marketing idea, which is to breathlessly convince the audience they are seeing actual footage of the supposed events, even to the point of playing the video excerpts next to the studio-shot scenes with actors. After a while, you realize that's all the movie has: the audience's willingness to believe there's a ghost of a chance this might have happened. As a horror movie, the thing is clinical and detached, and when you've figured out the bogusness of the conceit, that doesn't leave much. Elias Koteas and Will Patton join Jovovich in the heated story--or should we say, reconstructions of actual events. Aw, phooey. --Robert HortonSimilarProduct
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Customer reviews
This is a great film. Is it really a true story? 
by .. Almost Home (The place where there is no darkness.)
Ok, let's start by saying that all the people bashing this film for being "based on actual events" have apparently not seen a horror film since and including Tobe Hooper's epic "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre." Ever since horror films have used that label as a gimmick. That is all it is. Get over it. The Blair Witch doesn't exist. Kate and Mika from "Paranormal Activity" are alive and well. New York is not digging out from the Cloverfield monster. No humans died filming "Cannibal Holocaust." Get it? I digress.
The Fourth Kind is one of the most finely crafted thriller/horror films I have seen in a long time. The mix of "real" and "recreated" scenes is done really well. This film also succeeds in an area where so many have fallen flat: The Fourth Kind is actually scary. Imagine, and with a PG-13 rating and everything. The performances are well done. The special effects while minimal have terrific impact. This film does require suspension of disbelief and that seems to be where a lot of people get stuck. If you need to see everything that happens then you probably will not like The Fourth Kind. If you have a great imagination and you are able to play pretend for an hour and a half then you will get a big payoff. Also, as with most films, the less you know going in to the movie the better. Five stars.
Caught Me Completely Off Guard by .. darklordzden (Australia)
Nome, Alaska, October 2000: Dr. Abigail Tyler (Milla Jovovich) is a psychologist ministering to the citizens of Nome, a secluded Alaskan town which is only accessible by air. Still mourning the recent death of her husband, Tyler spends her days dealing with an apparent epidemic of insomnia amongst the town's citizens - but as Tyler delves deeper into the nature of her patient's sleep-related maladies, she begins to notice a disturbing number of similarities and correlations between their stories. Why are they all waking at 3:33am? And why are they all seeing owls outside their windows? As time draws on, she enlists the aid of colleague Dr. Abel Compos (Elias Koteas) and slowly begins piecing together fragments of information which suggest a nightmarish truth.
I'll admit it, "The Fourth Kind" caught me completely off guard; I rented it expecting a mildly entertaining mid-budget thriller fashioned after the likes of The X-Files: The Complete Collector's Edition and Steven Spielberg Presents Taken and instead experienced one of the most profoundly scary films that I've seen in a long time. This is no small praise when you consider that I've read a fair number of books and seen a fair number of films and TV shows about UFOs, aliens and abduction phenomena and am completely skeptical about the whole thing (the hard cold figures of Drake's equation negates the possibility of alien contact as far as I'm concerned).
While it's true that this film works through every Whitley Strieberesque cliché in the abduction playbook (screen memories, subliminally buried recollections accessible only through hypnosis, white lights and, hell, even some allusions to the work of Erich Von Daniken), director Olatunde Osunsami innovatively uses a gamut of structural, editing, split-screen and soundtrack techniques in order to draw the viewer into a tapestry of "dramatically reconstructed events" which appear alongside "archival footage" on which the reconstruction is allegedly based; the net effect of this tinkering with 'levels of reality' is a palpably eerie sense of authenticity which pervades the film and only serves to reinforce the chills that materialise. Situations and clichés that you've seen a million times before in a million different movies and TV shows are suddenly thrown into stark relief and become deeply frightening again.
Originally, I was only intending to give this film four stars, but it really did get into my head (and impress me with it's innovative structuring) and, frankly, it takes a lot to unnerve and impress me these days, so it gets a round five stars. Seriously, this a film which is both vastly scarier than (and vastly superior too) the massively over-hyped and deeply pedestrian Paranormal Activity as well as virtually every other horror film in recent years.
...And if you consider yourself a jaded old cynic and think that this film can't get into your head, I issue you the following challenge - watch this alone, late at night, with the lights out and the sound way up...and then discover what an interesting prospect going to sleep on your own in the dark becomes.
Worth the time.... by .. Marc Barney (The Bible Belt)
Great movie. My time is money, so anytime i go to a movie not knowing what to expect and i get the crap scared out of me, it's a great movie. left a lasting impression, and i still talk about it with my friends. To me, that makes it worth the price of admission. Don't listen to all the TOOLS who tried to talk smack about it. They are typing reviews from thier parents basements, with way too much time on thier hands. Rent it, buy it, whatever. It's pretty cool, you won't regret it. Look at it this way, i'm buying the blu-ray the day it comes out, and i only buy blu-rays that i KNOW i'll watch over and over through the years.
Knowledge production by .. Cade M. Cannon ()
I'm studying UFO's and the extraterrestrial hypothesis in relation to nationalist fears of invasion and knowledge production. I do have to say that this symptom of pathological skepticism runs deep into our culture. We are taught to be empirical but ultimately, our experiences are rendered meaningless unless it can be verified by an institution or state apparatus, and that these institutions and apparatuses are beyond question and without motivation. People who have been abducted have been particularly and roundly persecuted and ridiculed by "scientists" and government institutions. In their defense people who study this phenomena often are better scientists because they have to be even more objective and critical. In any case any evidence that is presented will never be good enough. Photographs will be said to be photo-shopped, videos will be said to be doctored, witnesses will be said to be deluded, suffering from sleep paralysis. The evidence is never really looked at and instead "scientists" commence to character assassinate and talk about a cookie that the experiencer stole when they were three. I think these people and their experiences negative or positive, need to be told. A weather balloon, with a string of Christmas lights and 20 drunks doesn't strike me as a good explanation.
Actually this movie doesn't simply say "based on a true story" it says that this is real footage. A director would not have gone that far if he was just doing a science fiction film. However I am not certain what the law is regarding truth in film. The scene inside the space ship in the movie Fire in the Sky did not occur in Travis Walton's account but was just added for entertainment (though the abduction did occur). I am curious just how permission to release this footage, especially the police footage, would have gotten released considering that some of it might still be part of an investigation. While I think we should all be skeptics, people who purport to be scientific really base their knowledge on faith that how that knowledge was produced was truly objective. Maybe we should stop giving knowledge about our world a free pass just because some one is an "expert" and start actually opening our eyes to the world around us which we ignore because experts do all of the work for us. They can essentially tell us anything and we will believe them. I will try to be less egotistical when I start interviewing experiencers, provided they will even talk to an anthropologist. By the way, I thought the movie was great.
OMG THIS MOVIE..... by .. Skittles (kennewick, WA, USA)
...This movie was so freaky that i almost cant describe the way it made me feel. It is my personal opinion that everyone watch this movie. The whole movie is back by actual video footage and audio recordings. After i watched the footage there was no doubt in my mind that these things did happen and continue to happen. The statistics about how many times the FBI has visited NOME Alaska since the 60's is baffling 2000+ times and anchorage a neighboring city has had 300+ visits all related to missing persons or in relation to abductions. The language spoke in the tapes is one not spoken by anyone and is the first recorded language know to man dating around 4000+ BC. The footage is as the say extremely disturbing the fact that 1 man after remembering what he did actually see after being put under hypnosis was actually frightened so badly but what he saw that he murdered his wife 2 children and then shot him self ( which is shown on police footage. The even show where a UFO hovers over there house and then the daughter goes missing ( never turned up or found) now the footage from the car does show it barley go over the car then becomes distorted but you can clearly hear the officer describe what happens.. There are several people at the end they claim wanted nothing to do with the movie. I wonder if its because they so deeply want to forget what they encountered. Like i said Watch it *and what you choose to believe in the end is yours to decide*