The Fourth Kind

[GreenScar]

Universal Pictures has released the first trailer for The Fourth Kind. No, this is not a sequel to Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of a Third Kind (lets hope that never happens) This sci-fi thriller is directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi and starring Milla Jovovich as a psychologist who “unwittingly discovered some of the most disturbing evidence of alien abduction ever documented.” The most interesting thing about this film is that it is a “fact-based thriller” based on an ongoing unsolved mystery in Alaska, where one town has seen a large number of unexplained disappearances during the past 40 years. The trailer even makes mention of this, using Jovovich as herself to explain that the film is a “reenactment.”

“A UFO sighting is referred to as an encounter of the first kind…When evidence is collected, it is known as an encounter of the second kind…Contact with extraterrestrials, is an encounter of the third kind… The next level, abduction, is the fourth kind. This encounter has been the most difficult to document… Until now.”

Thanks to Sci-Fi for premiering the trailer.


In 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.Structured unlike any film before it, The Fourth Kind is a provocative thriller 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 (Milla Jovovich) began videotaping sessions with traumatized patients and unwittingly discovered some of the most disturbing evidence of alien abduction ever documented. Using never-before-seen archival footage that is integrated into the film, The Fourth Kind exposes the terrified revelations of multiple witnesses. Their accounts of being visited by alien figures all share disturbingly identical details, the validity of which is investigated throughout the film.

The Fourth Kind hits theaters on November 6th 2009.

[tbizzle]

that looks pretty cool, might be a horror movie that's actually worth seeing

[Lepidopterous]

hmm... I like it.

[Steve]

That looks pretty interesting. Thanks for posting GreenScar.

[GLaDOS]

This looks very interesting. Reminds me of The Mothman Prophecies.

[Blu Titan]

It looks really good. Having Mila in it is a big incentive for me.

[Gamma_Winstead]

The trailer gave me goosebumps. looks awesome.

[GLaDOS]

Anyone got a feeling that they're gonna pull out a Knowing ending?

[Gamma_Winstead]

Originally Posted by kotsedriver

Anyone got a feeling that they're gonna pull out a Knowing ending?

No? Knowing wasnt based on true events.

[Sylin]

All I could think of was that line from Harry Potter where Hermione says, "I'm not an owl."

Anyhow... looks cool. +1 for Milla. I'll go see this.

[Monkey]

definitely going to watch this one

[vegeta88]

Holy Cripes! That sent shivers down my spine. I'm not really into scary movies but that one looks interesting. As with others milla jovovich raises my chances of seeing this one.

[Col. Zombie]

Too bad it's all BS!! Once again the marketing ploy of Hollywood trying to get us to believe it's all real. Hey, if it works, it works. I'm still going to see it.

http://community.adn.com/adn/node/143292

Families suspected a serial killer. The FBI mostly blamed alcohol and the cruel Alaska winter.

This fall, a movie distributed by a major studio and marketed as a “dramatization” of real events is offering another explanation for decades of disappearances and suspicious deaths in and around Nome:

Abduction by space aliens.

"The Fourth Kind," a thriller, hits theaters Nov. 6. Marketing from NBC Universal says it’s based on “archival footage” of a psychologist who stumbled upon “the most disturbing evidence of alien abduction ever documented” while interviewing Alaskans.

Spooky. Except it all looks to be a “Blair Witch Project” style fake-out.

No one has heard of the psychologist, including the state licensing board and president of the state psychologists association. And while there have indeed been disappearances in Nome — mainly people traveling to the hub city from surrounding Inupiat and Siberian Yupik villages — blaming a real-life tragedy on alien abduction is not sitting well with the non-profit that pushed the cases into the open.

“The movie looks ridiculous,” said Kawerak Inc. Vice President Melanie Edwards, who watched the trailer online Monday. “It’s insensitive to family members of people who have gone missing in Nome over the years.”

Universal Pictures is distributing the film in the United States. The star, Milla Jovovich, is a veteran of three “Resident Evil” movies about diabolical corporations and zombies. In the trailer, she introduces herself as an actress and tells the audience that “every scene in this movie is supported by archived footage.”

But it’s all fake, right? Did the film-makers ever go to Nome? What about the idea that all this trivializes a string of tragic Alaska deaths?

The studio has no comment, an NBC Universal spokesman said in an e-mail Tuesday.

Despite an FBI conclusion in 2006 that no serial killer was to blame, emotions over the missing and dead are still raw in the region.

Dallas Massie is a retired state trooper who has been filling in as Nome police chief since early this year. Soon after he arrived, a relative of a St. Lawrence Island man who went missing in October 2004 called. He had heard there was someone new at the police department and hoped to see a re-energized investigation.

The 2004 case is Nome’s most recent major missing-persons case, Massie said. Police, he said, are still looking for leads. Within reason.

“I have yet to hear anybody with the theory that aliens are taking folks out of the region,” Massie said.

VILLAGE DEATHS
After years of rumors that Nome had become a dangerous place for travelers from the villages, local officials in 2005 released a list of about 20 disappearances and deaths in the city. The cases dated back to the 1960s. At the time, a Nome police officer was on trial for the murder of a young village woman, and some residents mistrusted city police.

The FBI stepped in, reviewing two dozen cases, eventually determining that excessive alcohol consumption and the winter climate were a common link in many of the cases. Unlike other commercial hubs in rural Alaska, Nome is a “wet” city, with bars and liquor stores.

Some of dead were killed by exposure or from falling off a jetty into the frigid Snake River, authorities said at the time.

Delbert Pungowiyi of Savoonga still believes that foul play claimed his uncle, who flew to Nome in 1998 to buy a snowmachine and never came home.

Despite the FBI’s conclusion, Pungowiyi suspects racially motivated, serial murders are to blame in at least some of the deaths.

As for the new movie?

“Oh my god, that is ridiculous,” he said.

To be fair, “The Fourth Kind” seems to be telling a different story altogether. Movie trailers can be deceiving, but the victims shown in the short clip don’t appear to be visiting villagers.

The movie’s title is a reference to a measurement system used to describe varying degrees of contacts with aliens. Think “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” A UFO sighting would be the first kind of contact. The fourth kind is abduction.

According to promotional materials from Universal, the film is framed around a psychologist named Abigail Tyler who interviewed traumatized patients in Nome.

But state licensing examiner Jan Mays says she can’t find records of an Abigail Tyler ever being licensed in any profession in Alaska.

No one by that name lived in Nome in recent years, according to a search of public record databases.

Still, there are shreds of “evidence.”

Try Googling “Abigail Tyler” and “Alaska.” You’ll get a link to a convincingly boring Web site called the “Alaska Psychiatry Journal” — complete with a biography of a psychologist by that name who researched sleep behavior in Nome. Except the site is suspiciously vacant, mostly a collection of articles on sleep studies with no home page or contact information.

Another site, www.alaskanewsarchive.com, features a story from the Nome Nugget about Tyler moving to Nome for research. The problem? The story is credited to Nugget editor and publisher Nancy McGuire, who says it's baloney and she never wrote it.

Both the news site and the medical journal site were created just last month, according to domain-name research sites.

Ron Adler is CEO and director of the Alaska Psychiatric Institute. Denise Dillard is president of the Alaska Psychological Association. They said this week they’ve never heard of the Alaska Psychiatry Journal, or of Abigail Tyler.

[Sylin]

Originally Posted by Col.Zombie

Once again the marketing ploy of Hollywood trying to get us to believe it's all real. Hey, if it works, it works. I'm still going to see it.

Fine by me. I go to the theater to be entertained. I go to the library to get educated. I'll definitely be seeing this one.

[Drew664]

That trailer is really spooky.

[jasonicus]

Saw this last night and didn't think it was too bad. For being all fake, they try their damndest to make it seem real. It was a pretty good movie overall, a bit slow at times, but effective. They did a nice job with the viral sites. A lot of people believe the archived footage is real.

[Blu Titan]

The movie is fiction, and I will deal with it on those terms. I am a big Milla fan, and the concept interest me. I am planning to see it today, and will leave some feedback here if I do.

[agoofykindasuperman]

I saw this last night, it was a really well-made movie. As for it being real? I don't know... I'd kind of like it to be real. Real things scare me. Hollywood horror movies do not. I can watch any horror flick out there, including Paranormal Activity, but knowing it's all fake and computer effects really kills the scary feel of it. (unless it's a clown in IT)...
But if I were to see an actual ghost apparition in my bedroom, I'd sh*t myself.

[Rocky59]

This looks shit scary to me. Even looking at the still image of the video without pressing play is shitting me up. Thank god it's not dark.

Yeah grey aliens are my biggest fear. Dark, dark shit Cliffy.

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[Kryptonic]

I liked it very much. More than Paranormal Activity, which I also enjoyed. Whether it's real or not, it's a captivating film.

I hope that it's real though.