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The Fourth Kind Manufacturer: Universal Studios List price: $29.98 65 new & used available from $3.96. |
| 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.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 Horton |
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Customer Reviews / The Fourth Kind
| First things first,
The movie sets the stage as being based on actual events and contains "actual" footage from the true story. That is a lie. Some other reviewers have researched it but common sense will tell you its not true. The supposed police footage is bunk. The Police do not regularly release footage of actual crimes being committed to be put into movies. Nice try but we all won't be fooled. I grew up in Montgomery County Maryland where the guys that made Blair Witch were from and went to school. When the film came out and everyone thought it was real, we Marylanders know it was all fiction. So, are there any people from Nome, Alaska that want to chime in about this film? Next, there's a strange hybrid of alien abduction and possession. I'm not an expert on alien abductions but I have never heard of the people abducted speaking as the aliens. That's another thing, why would highly advanced aliens speak in an earthen language? And if they are trying to keep everything hush hush why would they allow themselves to be video taped and audio taped? If aliens are going through all of the trouble to kidnap people in their sleep and wipe their memories than why are they allowing themselves to be recorded? Come on people! Another fun fact was that if this is all real than why is not any "actual documentary" footage as an extra on the DVD? Why is there no extra interviews outside of the film contained on the DVD? Why is there nothing to substantiate the claims of the movie other than Milla Jovovich and the director? Nice slight of hand, almost fooled me but not exactly. As far as the movie's content goes.... Weak, not scary and too drawn out and emotional. They try to get you on the premise its real and contains actual material from the true story. Once you realize that its all fake it loses all of its power. Stick to Aliens, Predator, and The X-Files.. PS The scariest thing about the movie was the supposed "actual" Dr. Abigail Tyler, who by the way it has not been confirmed that she's real or not! |
| Well,what makes it so scary is the thought that it may be real. Having the real doctor and the actress doctor was a smooth move on the directors part. However, the real doctor was an actress too,here is her web site [...]
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| I think the only alien Mr. Tyler (the main character woman) saw was herself in the mirror. I mean if you shave her head bald, doesn't she look like an alien herself? I'm not talking about Milla Jovovich that portrayed Tyler, I'm talking about the lady herself.
Anyhow, I was bored to death and in general I'm not too crazy on the alien idea. I'm pretty sure they're out there, I'm just not as fascinated about them. I mean what is more scarier, a creep dead Japanese demon chick ghost or a green/rainbow colored alien. I'm just messing, but yeah this movie bored me and I really felt like I wasted my life (more than usual) watching this. |
| The Forth Kind claim to be an reenactment of real life events. The story is about a psychologist who is struggling after her husband was murdered. Soon she discover that several of her patients tell the same and very disturbing tales of seeing a white owl outside their window. Soon the small community of Nome is shook by violent and unexplained events. The movie shifts between film footage and what is claimed to be real life footage, the result can get rather creepy at times, and that is what this movie excel at, it is scary, the whole this is real explanation makes it rather creepy. The movie do not have much blood and gore, but it uses sounds, lighting and camera work very effectively. The story is interesting and the acting is quite good.
However there is a catch, the movie makers claim the movie to be real, most if not all of those claims have been refuted. The pepole in this film are characters, not real pepole. Unfortunately such scams hurt the credibility of real UFO phenomena. This movie tries to take a Blair Witch, claiming it had real footage, it do not, the woman in the interview is an actress, the story of this movie is pure fiction. The phenomena of alien abduction however is not, and the claims this movie makes just hurt the credibility of those who tell real stories. All in all however this is a well crafted, creepy horror movie. If you like movies like the Blair Witch and the like you will love this one. I would have given it four stars, but I dislike the movie makers lying and claiming the movie to be based on a real story, when it clearly is not. There might be hints of truth here and there, but the whole story with the doctor and her patients, that is all made up. |
| 'The Fourth Kind' is as poorly executed a movie as any I have ever seen. An utter waste of time and effort. |
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