Similar to The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity,The Fourth Kind, being also very strange, scary, and shocking, chronicles what it claims is a real-life case of alien abduction. This movie is directed and written by Olatunde Osunsanmi and stars Milla Jovovich (Abbey Tyler), Elias Koteas (Abel Campos), and Will Patton (Sheriff August).
The Fourth Kind takes place in modern-day Alaska, where mysteriously a disproportionate number of the population has been reported missing every year since the 1960’s. Having numerous FBI investigations of the region, the truth has never been discovered. This movie is basically a disturbing documentary that follows both real and reenacted footage. Abbey, a psychologist, is traumatized by her husband’s violent, mysterious death. After all her patients one week recount the same terrifying scenario/ dream of alien abduction, Abbey uses hypnosis to help and find out whose harming them. However soon after she finds herself as a target of her patient’s attackers, aliens. While her friends try to help her, the authorities do not believe a word. Abby then must set out to contact the aliens herself in order to save herself and her daughter. While this movie claims it is based on true events, many people claim The Fourth Kind is not a true story. Whatever the case may be, this thriller will have you clenching your armrest at the many horrific images. I thought the movie was considerably believable when I saw it the first time and it definitely had me scared and confused walking out the theatre. While this movie may not be for everyone, people need to realize that this is a science fiction thriller and it is merely for entertainment.
This is a film that definitely left me walking out of the theaters frightened and perplexed about the possibility of violent beings abducting people, with the raw footage that they showed. The re-enacting style that they used was very effective in making it seem as though it was a true story much like they did in the The Blair Witch Project.
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