The Fourth Kind

Plot synopsis:
An interview between Dr. Abigail Emily Tyler and Olatunde Osunsanmi (the director) kicks off the movie.Tyler (Milla Jovovich) begins to discuss a hypnotism session performed on her by a colleague, Dr. Abel Campos (Elias Koteas), in an attempt to remember back to the night her husband Will (Julian Vergov) was murdered beside her in their bed and to recollect the face of the murderer. However, she cannot recall the face and the session results in leaving her in tears. Campos tries to convince Tyler to take time off so her head can clear, but she insists that she must continue her husband's studies. After a brief scene with her two children, Ashley (Ashley McKenna-Bruce) - who had gone blind soon after her father's death - and Ronnie (Raphaël Coleman) - who blames his mother for the murder of Will - Tyler begins her studies on the sleep-deprived in Nome, Alaska, the isolated town where she lives. She notes that her patients have all awoken during the night to see a white owl watching them outside their windows for hours at a time.Tyler suggests to one patient, Tommy Fisher (Corey Johnson), that she put him under hypnosis to discover something he couldn't remember from the prior night. Under the hypnosis, Fisher says that he had woken to see the owl at his window yet again. It disappears as his door opens, and he goes into hysterics before Tyler can snap him out of it. Terrified and unwilling to reveal what he had seen opening his door, Fisher leaves. That night, the cops are called to the Fisher household to discover that Fisher is holding his wife Sarah (Tyne Rafaeli) and their two children (Pavel Stefanov and Kiera McMaster) hostage, refusing to discuss the situation with anyone other than Tyler. She arrives, and while she attempts to calm him down, Fisher begins screaming in a language that Tyler cannot understand and demanding that she tell him the meaning of what he is saying. When she can't supply a translation, Fisher shoots his wife, their children, and himself. Sheriff August (Will Patton) interrogates Tyler as to whether or not she believes her hypnosis therapy with Fisher that day was in relation to the shooting. When Tyler doesn't see a connection, August becomes enraged and tells her to cease her studies of sleep deprivation and the hypnosis on her patients. After returning home, Tyler grabs her tape recorder and makes notes over her patients, falling asleep while the recorder is still on.The following morning, Tyler arrives at work. Campos is waiting for her, worried after hearing of the Fisher shootings. She assures him that she is all right, and hands her tape recorder to her secretary, asking her to transcribe it. In her office, Scott Stracinsky (Enzo Cilenti), another of Tyler's patients, and his wife Cindy (Alisha Seaton) are waiting. Stracinsky decides to be hypnotized despite the recent tragedy. During the session, he begins shaking and gagging, and Tyler has a difficult time snapping him out of the hypnosis. When she finally does, he reveals that nonhuman creatures had invaded his room. The couple leaves moments before Tyler's secretary enters and tells Tyler that she cannot transcribe the tape. Curious, Tyler and Campos listen to the tape; moments after Tyler finishes her notes and falls asleep, mechanical noises are heard followed by terrified, heart-stopping screams coming straight from Tyler and a distorted voice speaking in an unknown language. She cannot remember anything that had happened that night and goes into denial, but discovers a bruise-like mark on her shoulder and scratches in the floorboards from her fingernails, as if she'd been trying to prevent someone from dragging her out.In her husband's research she finds the name and number of author Dr. Awolowa Odusami (Hakeem Kae-Kazim). Tyler calls the number and asks Odusami if he knew her husband. He claims he didn't, but says that someone using the alias of "John" had called him from that number before. They set up a meeting between Tyler, Odusami, and Campos; during this, Odusami listens to the tape and concludes that the language is Sumerian, a dead language. He mentions that in ancient Sumerian artifacts pictures of men in space suits and UFOs were depicted, and that the voice on the tape speaking the language - saying words such as "destroy" and "ruin" - did not sound human. During the meeting, Stracinsky's wife calls Tyler and begs her to come to their house. She, along with her colleagues, arrives at the house to find Scott in bed, a large bruise on his arm similar to the one on Tyler's shoulder. He wants to be put under hypnosis, because he can't quite remember what happened. Almost immediately after being put under, Stracinsky jerks into an upright position with his head thrown back and his eyes and mouth open wide. He soon begins to levitate off the bed and screams in the Sumerian language. His body is distorted and dropped back onto the bed, seemingly lifeless.Terrified, Tyler hurries to her house and starts packing, intending to flee to North Carolina. Sherriff August comes in; Stracinsky is now paralyzed from the neck down, and August believes that Tyler did it. As he is arresting her, Campos comes in and firmly states that Tyler had nothing to do with the accident. August agrees to leave Tyler at her house under constant surveillance by an officer of his. In the early hours of the morning, the officer spots an object flying over the household and calls August. The police officer also says he saw the three of them entering the starship. When August arrives, he finds a sobbing Tyler in Ashley's room. Tyler claims that a beam of light appeared and took her daughter. August demands Tyler to stop her nonsense, believing that she was the cause behind Ashley's disappearance. Also, he forces Tyler to accept that her late husband wasn't killed by any such stranger as she says she saw: he had committed suicide in front of her. When she wasn't able psychologically to face this fact, her anguished mind lied to herself into believing it was a criminal stranger's fault. This leads August to further believe that Tyler can convince herself of anything. When she continues to insist that it was the work of extraterrestrials, he takes Ronnie, who also believes that his mother was the cause of his sister's kidnapping, out of her custody.Firmly believing that her daughter was abducted, Tyler asks Campos and Odusami to put her under hypnosis to bring her back to the night her tape recorder caught her screaming - which she believes was a recording of her own personal abduction - in an attempt to directly contact the aliens and demand for Ashley back. Campos puts Tyler into a deep sleep, and an inhuman voice speaking through her begins screaming in Sumerian. Tyler begins an almost schizophrenic scene where she and the Sumerian voice speaking through her start arguing. She begs them to bring her daughter back, and yet the voice refuses before it drops Tyler back on the couch. Campos and Odusami try to revitalize her when they themselves start screaming. When the static halts, the camera is now on the floor of an empty room; the three doctors are missing.Osunsanmi asks Tyler what had happened the night of her hypnosis. She tells him that they were abducted, though they were unsure where they had gone or what had been done to them. The interview fades as the film itself continues; Tyler is now in a hospital bed, August and Campos at her bedside. August asks her who killed her husband, and she says all she was aware of was that he was stabbed while they were asleep. Countering her story, August holds up a picture of Will's head with a bullet hole through it alongside a picture of a gun, and tells Tyler that her husband had committed suicide. He asks her yet again where Ashley was, and Tyler swears that her daughter was abducted. She begs Campos to speak up, reminding him that they had gone through the same things. He keeps quiet, and August is forced to remove Ronnie from a worn-down Tyler's custody.Tyler continues to stay true to the story of Ashley's abduction by aliens. As she becomes emotional, Olatunde Osunsanmi (the true director of the film) finally concludes the interview. It is then that the camera zooms out, and the audience is made aware of the fact that Tyler is in a wheelchair, paralyzed. The end credits reveal that no one involved in the real events had wanted to participate in the creation of the film, and that Tyler is under constant surveillance as her health deteriorates day by day ever since her abduction. Her son Ronnie stills blames Dr Tyler for Ashley's disappearance. Ashley has never been found.The end credits rolls with 911 calls reporting sightings of UFOs.

Tags: paranormal, psychological, murder

Review:
Now whether or not you believe in this is entirely up to you, but give this movie a chance, if nothing else then for its entertainment value."The Fouth Kind" is a unique mix of documentary and ordinary movie, and it worked out well, though sometimes it was a bit too much with the actual footage, it was disruptive in some odd way.The story is quite interesting and compelling, and it grabs a hold of you and keeps you nailed down till the very end of the movie.
You can find it out on IMDb. The "real" Charlotte Milchard is an actress from the UK:Plus, the people in Nome Alaska were angry that the film attributed the missing persons (who probably died from the rugged, harsh, cold terrain if anything) to UFOs and aliens.
But I hadn't heard a thing about it, other than an interview on Coast to Coast AM where a UFO investigator was shooting down the film for claiming it was "real" and making the actual people in UFOlogy look bad, and giving lesser credibility to real, actual stories.
Apparently, you can hear someone yell "action" in the supposedly real footage just before the man shoots his entire family.Personally, I think the movie was a bit of a failure, unless the person viewing it actually believe it to be real.
It felt a little bit like they had no budget, so they only had enough money to hire a couple of good actors, throw them into a poorly scripted movie (with an unconvincing actor as the police detective...) Some overhead shots of a city in Alaska, and wham, you have a film...The only positive thing I can say about this film is one major highlight: indie film-making getting big...
the film-makers got away with making some good cash with little budget, interesting but poorly executed marketing plan, they could afford decent actors (like Milla Jovovich and the guy who played the male psychiatrist)...
I watched this movie with some friends and we started commenting some of the first scenes until the shock came and made us shut up.Trying to remember good scary Sci Fi UFO movies I can't find too much, maybe because its a difficult matter to build as a movie, a lot of attempts ended with cheesy non-credible movies but this isn't the case.The movie has a lot of good tense moments with good acting but kind of start to fail with some ideas in the middle of the story, there are some flaws that make it less credible but still scary.There are some details like the photography and direction that are great and paired with the cast and good story makes the film an enjoyable scary ride..
An alien abduction mockumentary, following a psychologist who's using hypnotherapy to find out just what is going on in her home town, where people keep disappearing under mysterious circumstances.I've read more than a couple of reviews that complained how the 'based on a real story'-shtick wasn't believable.
If a horror movie about alien abductions sounds like something that would entertain you, 'The fourth Kind' is likely to do the trick..
This movie offers nothing new in the way of ideas, and nothing impressive in the way of writing, acting, or photography.Before going to see this film I glanced at several comments on the IMDb site, and writer after writer testified how terrifying they found THE FOURTH KIND.
Now, you can't argue about taste, but given the extreme ordinariness of this movie, I strongly suspect that these comments are part of the film's marketing campaign and do not reflect the reactions of real viewers.What definitely count as false advertising are the repeated claims that this movie is based on real individuals (e.g., a therapist named Abigail Tyler) and true events.
The ridiculous premise is made more ridiculous by the film's disingenuous suggestion that it is based on true events (which it is not).It contains footage of a pseudo-documentary, which insults the intelligence of the viewer, by simply having different actors play the same characters during the fake documentary.
Still though, I came out shocked at how good the movie actually was.First of all, the so-called archival footage and audio that is supposedly real, is fake...or so I think.
I think that the word "alias" probably describes nearly everything in the movie, not only the personalities but the locations, times and numbers too.There is a school of thought that Hollywood is "preparing" the general population for disclosure and comments have been made by "whistle blowers" to the effect that Spielberg, Carter etc have created content which is very similar to some of the things they have "experienced" eg "Taken" and "The X Files"The Fourth Kind certainly falls into that category (if the testimony of "real" abductees is to be believed)I personally really liked the way the film was arranged, the parallel shots and the overall sumptuous rich darkness of it all but it may not be to everyone's liking.
The movie contains some beautiful scenery too.I think I'd have to say, the subject matter and the way it divides the population is probably the key to decide if you should see the film.
While The Fourth Kind ultimately isn't as successful as its predecessors, it takes an original approach on an audacious premise of alien abduction.The Fourth Kind begins with an introduction by lead actress and former Resident Evil star Milla Jovovich, who dramatizes psychiatrist Dr. Abigail Tyler in the film.
Jovovich then closes her remarks stating, "Some of what you are about to see is extremely disturbing." To some extent, she is right.An interview conducted by director Olatunde Osunsanmi with Dr. Tyler is woven into the movie intermittently as she recounts her experiences with alien encounters and abductions.
The audience is constantly forced to challenge what they believe and, while easy to make excuses for some of the alleged "evidence", there are certainly some aspects that will be difficult for skeptics to explain without extensive research.Whether you look at it from a cynical standpoint or as someone who simply enjoys movies, The Fourth Kind is far from perfect.
If you want to be scared, I do recommend seeing this movie.That being said, I have to knock a few points off because of one plot hole, a couple of wooden actors, one tasteless inclusion, the fact that it's really not doing much to improve society, and because it's really not a film so much as a viral firework made to capitalize on it's initial few weeks in the theaters.
Whether it's true or not, its producers probably know that people will end up categorizing it in the same category as the Blair Witch Project- which they will.So while these types of ultra-realistic movies get into our heads by contemporary means- and may require adult diapers for viewing- they really, in my opinion, can't be categorized in the same league as a films that get into our heads and make us forget that we're watching a movie without looking like a home video or a documentary.
It also deserves to be seen on the big screen, for effect- and for it's awesome sound work; and as I mentioned in the title of my review, if you're going to see it, see it soon, because it's inevitable that people will start trying to discredit the supposed truthfulness of it immediately- as is human nature when something far out there, claiming to be the truth, is published.
For some reason I think she turns down movies that play on her beauty and sexiness to somehow act as if she wants to be taken seriously, but it doesn't work, so come on, Milla, you are a beautiful girl, embrace it and stop giving up this B movie crap.Like my Reviews, Hate em?
But combining supposedly real archive footage(that actually looks real for once), an intro and outro by the films star and director and a dramatization of the events that occurred is ingenious and realistically effective.
It shouldn't be surprising, because those fist reviews were written for money -- fake reviews for a fake movie.C'mon, who in their right mind would believe the "actual footage" is real?
Its these ingenious initiatives that makes "The Fourth Kind's" story stand out, its not going to win any awards for originality but boy it does know how to spin a good yarn that will keep your engaged throughout the majority of the film with passable dialogue and well developed characters.Photobucket The film is directed with flair and originally showing a keen eye for the inventive.
They go out of their way to do all but claim that it was based on real events.This movie is even worse than the Blair Witch Project, but at least that movie didn't pretend to be anything other than what it was.Terrible storyline, uninspired special effects, marginal acting.
Aren't we WAY past the day when some goober comes out and says, "the events you are about to see are real, no really, they're really really real, and disturbing too, don't forget disturbing, and I just sorta wanted to warn you ahead of time that this is real and documented and backed up with evidence and it's disturbing, and in case you weren't paying attention for the first second or two: this is based on a true story that is documented and real, and it's disturbing too." Well, cut that out and maybe you have a great beginning.
Designed for the gullible and the easily impressed, "The Fourth Kind" (as in "Close Encounters of ") is an alien-abduction tale that is long on gimmickry and contrivance and short on credibility and suspense.Milla Jovovich plays a hypnotherapist in Nome, Alaska, who, in 2000, allegedly discovered that some mighty strange things had begun happening to the residents of the town, incidents very possibly extraterrestrial in nature.
The movie mixes re-enactments of the events at the time with audio and video recordings purportedly showing us actual, first-hand accounts of those events – although anytime anything of any real interest or significance starts to occur, the sound and images conveniently go to static.Directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi, this warmed-over serving of "Chariots of the Gods" foolishness – combining ancient Sumerian dialects with invasive body-cavity probing – is strictly for the tin-foil hat crowd..
By the end of the movie, people in the theater were actually laughing at the "real" footage - especially the real Abigail Tyler, who's depicted with a ridiculous amount of white pancake makeup, black bug-eyes, and a quivering lip as she talks softly and in monotone throughout the whole movie.
There are people who believe this film to be a true documentary and the filmmaker and distributor took full advantage of that silly sector of the movie-going public.'The Fourth Kind' is an egregious lie--of a new kind.
But as I have previously said: None of this is real.This was a major downer as I am a huge fan of the paranormal and aliens and all that jazz and the writing drove some big parts of it home, however instead of coming out full-faced as fiction, it attempts to sell itself as fact and once you find out the real-cheese of it, it generally becomes the biggest disappointment film of the year.
but the worst thing about the film has to be the "real footage" which is supposed to make it feel that you are watching a true story but it will only leave you frustrated as they are full of static which is put in to try and cover up the rubbish special effects.
I know its not a big huge thing and all, but I think the movie really tripped me out because I had actually seen an owl in the most weirdest place.
go rent communion with Christopher Walken as Whitley Strieber with accompanying Eric Clapton soundtrack if you want a real "based on a true story" abduction thrill -- and if you don't like that movie,.
Even if the "real" footage isn't real (I actually did think it was and that was the only scary thing in the film that something like this could actually happen) it just could have had so much pace and intrigue compared to the tripe that was produced in the end.Just wish I hadn't forked out for a cinema ticket..
From beginning to end they try to make out that this picture is based on true events that happened in a place called Nome, Alaska, but the film was not even made there but elsewhere which is nothing like the real Nome which from all accounts is a boring wilderness.
In brief: the movie pretends to be a dramatization of actual facts when in reality the "real life" true sequences in the picture are totally made up using performers and the lead person is simply fictitious.
If this was supposed to be real and supposed to be scary, well it failed.It was boring and tedious - and to cast Milla as the lead, who - in the beginning of the "documentary" was totally wrong...Elias Koteas was also miscast.Whomever did the casting for this did something so wrong...They did not look like the real people.The editing of joining the "documentary" and the "film" sections was just stupid.The lead up was stupid and the follow through was just as stupid as well.However - casting Milla (a model) with great teeth, hair, skin complexion and hypnotic eyes to replace a woman who does not resemble her at the least was just asinine...What was casting thinking of?
The key point here is this ingenious unique way of storytelling which I didn't experience before (Yeah I didn't watch The Blair Witch Project yet!), so this way of gathering "acted" scenes and a "real/fake" footage was really surprising and effectively chilling and disturbing.
Instead of providing some kind of tension, the movie constantly keeps repeating not only "I'm scared, I'm really scared", but also its theme of being "real" or "based on true events", almost as if the producers realized how fundamentally NOT scary their film turned out, and tried to save a little of the production cost by creating an aura of authenticity to lure at least a minimum amount of viewers into the theater.
The movie is about Psychiatrists Abigail Tyler and her patients in Nome, Alaska who believe they have been abducted by aliens.
4. The fact it's not true.The acting is the movie is actually really good, aside from the lead role, Milla Jovovich; she is probably the worst actress working in Hollywood at the moment.
If it was plot build-up it would have been fine but it wasn't and that just made it really freaking bad.So this film was a waste of my time and money, this is more of a 3:00 morning and can't sleep and it was on HBO so I decided to watch it, type movie.
It had a great premise and trailer but the lack of experience from director, Milla Jovovich being a terrible actress, and the fact it wasn't real (have I mentioned that?) makes this film pretty bad..
As for Milla Jovovich, she was probably supposed to look like an actress as bad as those working on this kind of midnight documentary, or really her lack of fright is not fake.
This was kinda like a failed experiment at a new faux reality horror, what with Milla Jovovich's self-introduction at the start: "Oh hai, I'm Milla Jovovich and I'll be portraying an alien abductee!"I think the gimmick kinda defused the tension of the movie, as it would go back and forth between Jovovich and the "real" victim she was portraying, and the whole documentary feel felt too produced, as opposed to the handicam home-vid feels of other "reality" horrors like Paranormal Activity.It wasn't too scary either.
The film leaves you thinking what's just happened and after watching it about 4 times i have sill to work out what actually was going on and who was to blame from the end outcome.
By the biggest problem of modern TV I mean the concept of portraying something that is 90% (or in this case essentially 100%) or more fake as "reality/documentary" by deliberately make an effort to convince the audience that aspects that are in fact acting are actually genuine real footage.
Though this movie wasn't what I expected, there are a few scenes that to this day still give me chills.Think about The Exorcist done with Aliens/UFOs. Like The Exorcist, I don't think I can watch this one by myself.
If you want to be really really scared - flip a coin and if it turns heads you have to watch this incredibly boring movie again.Do not waste your time!At first we are presented with a speech by Milla, telling us that this is a more or less real story and that names have been changed.
I like the actors (in other movies) and they look like they are trying to do their best in the film, but the scripting just bogs down with no real sci-fi, terror, suspense, drama, or whatever you might be looking for in a movie.If you go expecting the entertainment of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" you will be very disappointed.
Supposedly based on real events, at least that is what Milla Jovovich tells us at the beginning of the film, The Fourth Kind is about alien abductions centered in Nome, Alaska.
This is just advice for those who haven't seen the movie yet and want to experience a truly frightening scenario.Also: the "real" Dr. Abigail Tyler doesn't look anything like Mila Jovovich.
I really liked it, it is a very good movie one that it was worth watching.Is it real?
Also, if the film isn't based on true events, then why do they hesitate to show an alien the whole movie (or whatever the so called witnesses saw, which is never truly explained).
The only thing I found annoying watching this movie ,which by the way was a load of rubbish in its presentation hoping we would believe the "real" footage of evidence , -- was the terrible sound .