![]() ![]() ![]() "I was receptive to the possibility that it could be real, I think that it was convincing enough to make it kind of scary-fun," the reviewer said. Right now, astronomers are trying to find evidence of very simple life forms in space."įilm reviewer Todd Gilchrist said he tried to watch the movie with an open mind. "Almost all scientists I know believe that there's no evidence of encounters between humans and alien life forms. "I think that it's fun to have fictional movies about the possibility of extraterrestrial life, but it's important for the public to understand the difference between science and science fiction," Halpern said. Abigail Tyler," and that the images they are about to see are very disturbing. To further push the reality bit, Jovovich informs the audience right up front that she "plays the role of Dr. Abigail Tyler.ĭuring sleep studies "in fall 2000, the therapist's patients, under hypnosis, exhibited behaviors that suggested encounters with nonhumans," the statement read.Īccording to the press material, Tyler recorded footage depicting disturbing scenes, which director Osunsanmi uses alongside re-enactments starring Milla Jovovich and Will Patton in a split screen. First time writer/director Olatunde Osunsanmi was unavailable for comment, but according to a fact sheet handed out at screenings, he discovered the disappearances that plagued Nome in 2004 when a friend told him of a Dr. The "fourth kind" is alien abduction, the hardest encounter to prove until now, said NBC Universal, parent company of distributor Universal Studios, in a press release. "Honestly, I've only ever heard of it through fiction," he said, "not as an actual scientific scale of measurement." However, Paul Halpern, a physics professor at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who has studied the possibility of extraterrestrial life, doubts its validity. The film does rely very heavily on the tagline "What do you believe?" letting viewers decide for themselves what's real and what's Hollywood, but it also conflates the two for its convenience.įor example, the title itself is derived from a "scale of measurement" that was "developed in 1972" to categorize alien encounters, best known through its use in Steven Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." (On the scale, the first kind of encounter is defined as a UFO sighting the second, collected evidence of extraterrestrials and the third kind is contact.) It's not a new idea "The Blair Witch Project" pulled off the concept effectively, and the recent "Paranormal Activity" uses handheld cameras for a cinema verite look.īut unlike "Paranormal," "The Fourth Kind" literally announces its validity, taking Nome's documented unexplained disappearances and making the case for alien abductions. "The Fourth Kind," which comes out Friday, uses the disappearances as a jumping-off point for an alien abduction yarn, using "archived footage" to create an atmosphere of documentary realism. The FBI looked into about 20 cases, finding alcohol and frigid temperatures to be causes. The victims were largely native men traveling to the town from smaller villages, according to the Anchorage Daily News. In 2005, the FBI was brought in to investigate. In real life, there was a string of disappearances in the small town on the west coast of Alaska, not far from the Bering Strait. The movie is portraying something like the 'Blair Witch Project,' and we're just hoping the message gets out that this is supposed to be for entertainment." "Some of the calls I'm just ignoring," Michels said, "because the issue we had to deal with in real life was very sensitive. She said town residents have been getting a lot of phone calls lately, and frankly, they're a bit tired of talking about it. "People need to realize that this is a science fiction thriller," Michels said. The horror movie tries to say that documented disappearances of Nome residents are the result of alien abductions and that's just Hollywood hooey, said Mayor Denise Michels. ![]() (CNN) - "The Fourth Kind" isn't the kind that Nome, Alaska, wants around.
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