The Fourth Kind

[Kane52630]

i didnt see a thread of this so im going to make one

1n 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.

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[GhostPoet]

Maybe they are just being eaten by bears.......ALIEN bears.

 

[COAL TIGER]

I'll see this.

 

[Kane52630]

i saw a new tv spot for it, did anyone else saw it

 

[8wid]

Call it People Who Suffer from Sleep Apnea: The Movie

 

[Heretic]

While the ad campaign looks good, there is n way this movie is any good.

Heck, I'm so jaded that I doubt that the archival footage shown and claimed to be real is anything more than studio-produced.

 

[xwolverine2]

saw a new tv spot for this... made it look actually interesting.

 

[Heretic]

Yeah...I did some looking into the "real footage", and it turns out that the victims of the dead/missing are pretty ticked about this movie. The real story involved unrelated incidents of people getting drunk and dying in the cold, having accidents, or being abducted by humans...but the real story does not have any claims of UFO abduction at all. The psychiatrist does not exist, and none of the victims were around to be filmed, so even the "real" footage are actors following a script based in fiction. It's essentially a big budget attempt at a Blair Witch/Paranormal Activity type movie.

 

[danoyse]

I thought the trailer for this was awful. It seemed like they were so intent to show "actual" footage the trailer wound up barely making sense.

 

[Timstuff]

Call it People Who Suffer from Sleep Apnea: The Movie

This smells of another Blair Witch-style fiasco, except it looks like the ruse has already been exposed. The reason Blair Witch worked was because there were such a small number of people involved that they could get away with claiming that they used "real footage." This movie is a (fairly) big production though, and the more people who are involved with a hoax, the harder it is to sell.

 

[danoyse]

There were people in a class I was in about 3 years after Blair Witch was released who were still insisting that was a true story.

 

[Kane52630]

There were people in a class I was in about 3 years after Blair Witch was released who were still insisting that was a true story.

now thats funny

 

[chaseter]

Yeah...I did some looking into the "real footage", and it turns out that the victims of the dead/missing are pretty ticked about this movie. The real story involved unrelated incidents of people getting drunk and dying in the cold, having accidents, or being abducted by humans...but the real story does not have any claims of UFO abduction at all. The psychiatrist does not exist, and none of the victims were around to be filmed, so even the "real" footage are actors following a script based in fiction. It's essentially a big budget attempt at a Blair Witch/Paranormal Activity type movie.

Yeah because alien abductions happen all the time That is like calling The Mothman Prophecies or The Amytiville Horror a Blair Witch/Paranormal Activity big budget rip off. They are all works of fiction loosely based on reality.

This movie would have been made way before Paranormal Activity was released so I don't know how this would be a ripoff??? Blair Witch and Paranormal Activity weren't that good anyways. As for this movie, I have no expectations but I will give it a shot. It looks like it might have some good scares.

 

[omid17]

'Real' alien abduction movie questioned (yahoo)

 

[CELTICPRED]

The clip at the bottom of that link is actually kinda creepy.

 

[Heretic]

Yeah because alien abductions happen all the time That is like calling The Mothman Prophecies or The Amytiville Horror a Blair Witch/Paranormal Activity big budget rip off. They are all works of fiction loosely based on reality.

This movie would have been made way before Paranormal Activity was released so I don't know how this would be a ripoff??? Blair Witch and Paranormal Activity weren't that good anyways. As for this movie, I have no expectations but I will give it a shot. It looks like it might have some good scares.

My point had nothing to do with alien abductions.

This movie is being promoted as a study of real CLAIMS of alien abductions, and yet...in reality...those claims do not exist. The movie is promoting itself as being backed up by video footage of psychiatry sessions...when in reality, no such sessions exist, and what is shown in the promotion are also staged, fictional storylines. Mothman Prophecies etc are all based on actual accounts of people who think they saw something weird (maybe true, maybe hallucinations...I wasnt there). The point is that the CLAIMS are real. This movie is total fiction and no one ever thought that aliens were involved at all.

Of course the film isnt ripping off Paranormal Activity. I never said it did. I DID say that it was trying to promote itself as a Blair With/Paranormal Activity type film...which it clearly is. Would you have preferred I say Blair With/Poughkeepsie Tapes type movie?? The fact is that this film has more in common with Texas Chainsaw than it does Blair Witch. Texas Chainsaw was "based on a true story" but the victims and killer never existed. This film goes a step further. There are real victims, and the producers claim to have real footage. People are dead...and no one except the film makers ever suggested alien involvement. They have fabricated this psychiatrist and claim that the dead all went to her and talked about some giant owl or whatever. That obviously never happened since the psychiatrist who "provided" the footage does not exist and never did.

It just seems a bit desperate, and the movie must be god awful if they are resorting to this to promote it.

 

[omid17]

The clip at the bottom of that link is actually kinda creepy.

it is

 

[omid17]

My point had nothing to do with alien abductions.

This movie is being promoted as a study of real CLAIMS of alien abductions, and yet...in reality...those claims do not exist. The movie is promoting itself as being backed up by video footage of psychiatry sessions...when in reality, no such sessions exist, and what is shown in the promotion are also staged, fictional storylines. Mothman Prophecies etc are all based on actual accounts of people who think they saw something weird (maybe true, maybe hallucinations...I wasnt there). The point is that the CLAIMS are real. This movie is total fiction and no one ever thought that aliens were involved at all.

Of course the film isnt ripping off Paranormal Activity. I never said it did. I DID say that it was trying to promote itself as a Blair With/Paranormal Activity type film...which it clearly is. Would you have preferred I say Blair With/Poughkeepsie Tapes type movie?? The fact is that this film has more in common with Texas Chainsaw than it does Blair Witch. Texas Chainsaw was "based on a true story" but the victims and killer never existed. This film goes a step further. There are real victims, and the producers claim to have real footage. People are dead...and no one except the film makers ever suggested alien involvement. They have fabricated this psychiatrist and claim that the dead all went to her and talked about some giant owl or whatever. That obviously never happened since the psychiatrist who "provided" the footage does not exist and never did.

It just seems a bit desperate, and the movie must be god awful if they are resorting to this to promote it.

heretic check the video out http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/buzz-log-fourth-kind.html

 

[Heretic]

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[Heretic]

Just watched the video you linked to(sorry, my original post made it look like Ive seen the movie).

Of course, the promotion for the film just now attempted to make itself appear even more real by tying their fake footage in with former presidents and people with some sort of credibility.

It's just pathetic...and even more pathetic that people will actually believe that this fake psychiatry footage is real.

I am on the fence about the paranormal. I wont rule out that ghosts and UFOs exist because I cant prove that they dont. I've never been to Jupiter, but I assume it exists based on other people's work. However, I haven't seen any evidence that truly convinced me of that any of it is real (as i mentioned in some thread recently, I did have a small paranormal type event in my life a few years ago, but it wasnt some huge deal that changed my belief system).

 

[xwolverine2]

lmao at people questioning the movies realism compared to the footage! HAHAHA!...

 

[Heretic]

lmao at people questioning the movies realism compared to the footage! HAHAHA!...

Most people will never actually investigate whether the footage is real or not...so we can expect many of our friends to engage in conversations with us that it was real.

I recall a tv special years ago called When Cars Attack, that suggested there have been a series of car accidents, cars not responding to breaks etc. This special showed 'real" footage of car accidents, and had "experts" talking about how each instance of this has the same part going haywire or falling off the car. Of course, the part they were talking about (I cant remember what they called it) does not exist and the entire special was fiction. I think it even had a disclaimer at the end during the credits. That didn't stop half my friends from insisting that cars were actually turning evil and attacking their owners.

There was also some special about aliens during the same time frame that showed "actual footage" of UFOs attacking a family in their house, and then at the end the credits rolled and the actors names were listed, alng with the writers. This again did not stop people from talking about it as if it were real.

 

[CelticPredator]

Incident at Lake County. Fantastic flick. Even though it was fake, it still scared the balls out of me.

 

[danoyse]

now thats funny

It was crazy - my boss at the time was neighbors with the brother of one of guys in Blair Witch, and he had done that Sci-Fi Channel documentary - I told them that and they still didn't believe me that was fake.

 

[The Apatow Crew]

After Seeing Paranormal Activity, I'm kinda of put from watching something else so similar.