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Did "The Fourth Kind" live up to the hype?
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Hot on the trail of one of the year's biggest horror flicks(Paranormal Activity) comes The Fourth Kind, yet another shock-fest that is supposedly based upon "true events". Except in the advertising campaign boasts claims about actual documented footage to bring some form of validity to it's story.
The film stars Milla Jovovich(Resident Evil:Extinction) as Dr. Abigail Tyler, a psychologist who is studying a pattern of eerily similar sleep-related disturbances amongst a group of people in the remote town of Nome, Alaska. The film is often spliced with "actual archival footage" taken from sessions which the "real" Dr. Abigail Tyler conducted in fall of 2000. In both the filmed and documented footage, the patients are shown to be having nightmares which they feel they are being abducted by a race that is seemingly not of human origin.
The Fourth Kind, while genuinely disturbing at points, does tend to play out more as an extended version of "Unsolved Mysteries" as opposed to a story with a typical narrative structure. Also, it should be noted that the validity of the footage and claims that director Olatunde Osunsanmi makes in reference to such have been called into question. There have been reports that there is no such person as Dr. Abigail Tyler, no evidence to support the disappearances or deaths of people in Nome, or no actual proof that there was any sort of report involving UFOs being sited in Nome. In fact, it should be noted that the film was actually not even shot in Nome, Alaska. Yet The Fourth Kind sets the viewer up in the very beginning of the film to believe that these stories are fact rather than fiction.
Despite these accusations, The Fourth Kind should be genuinely appealing to anyone who enjoys entertaining the thought of UFOs or Alien abductions. Or anyone thats a fan of the History Channel. The idea of intermingling the two types of footage is quite an original experience and definitely seems to have more validity to it's claims than certain other films that share the same affectation within the genre.
Bryan's Grade: B
Check out the trailer below.
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