The Fourth Kind 2009 - Poster, Plot, Review, Photos and Trailer HD

The Fourth Kind is a 2009 American science fiction-horror film, starring Milla Jovovich, Charlotte Milchard, Elias Koteas, Will Patton and Mia McKenna Bruce. The title is derived from the expansion of J. Allen Hynek’s classification of close encounters with aliens, in which the fourth kind denotes alien abductions.

The film was a moderate box office success, earning over US$46 million worldwide.

The Fourth Kind 2009 Plot

In 2002, Chapman University hosts a televised interview with psychologist Dr. Abigail “Abbey” Tyler. She tells her story of a close encounter incident at Nome, Alaska in October 2000.

In August 2000, Abbey’s husband, Will Jammeson, is mysteriously murdered one night in his sleep, leaving her to raise their two children, Ashley and Ronnie. Dr. Campos, a physician from Anchorage, encourages Abbey to take some time off but she refuses, stating that Will’s research must be continued.

Abbey returns to Nome to tape hypnotherapy sessions with three different patients, all of whom have the same experience: every night they have each seen a white owl at their window staring at them. Abbey puts a patient named Tommy under hypnosis, who then begins screaming and spasms erratically. After Abbey awakens him, she asks Tommy what he saw but he refuses to answer and leaves. Later that night, Tommy holds his family at gunpoint, demanding to speak to Abbey. After a brief conversation with her, he screams “Zimbatu Eter!”, demanding to know what it is, then kills his family and himself. The local Sheriff, August, suspects that Abbey’s hypnosis is to blame.

The next morning, Dr. Campos arrives in Nome to see Abbey. He joins her for a session with another patient named Scott. While under hypnosis, Scott starts shaking, foaming at the mouth, levitating, and screaming in a barbaric, unknown language. After awakening him, Abbey suggests that Tommy and Scott were possibly victims of a Non-human kidnapping. Abbey’s secretary, who was earlier instructed to make a transcript of Abbey’s tape recorded notes from the previous night, hands her the tape and hastily leaves the room. Abbey plays the tape which starts with her talking normally, until the tape goes quiet. Abbey is heard breathing heavily then screaming hysterically and a metallic, static voice is heard speaking in the background in the strange tongue. Abbey is shocked and terrified by the recording, not recalling any of those events happening. She then returns home and finds scratch marks in the floorboards that match up with her broken fingernails.

Abbey decides to contact Dr. Odusami, who specializes in ancient languages. Once in Nome, he identifies the language from the tape as Sumerian. Later, Abbey gets a phone call from Scott who they visit and put under hypnoses, during which he bolts up, screams, and levitates while speaking in Sumerian. Later, Sheriff August goes to Abbey’s house and tells her Scott’s neck is broken and he is paralyzed from the neck down. Convinced she is responsible, he begins to arrest her, but Dr. Campos arrives and pleads for clemency. The sheriff relents, but says she cannot leave her house, and places a deputy outside her residence.

At 3:33 am the deputy awakens to something in the sky. He then rushes into the house to find Ashley has gone missing. A hysterical Abbey claims Ashley was lifted through the ceiling and outside into a UFO. The sheriff thinks she is delusional and removes her son from her custody. To get Ashley back, Abbey decides that she must make contact with these beings, and the only way to do that is to be hypnotized.

Dr. Campos and Dr. Odusami tape her session and, once hypnotized, she remembers seeing the white owl looking at her. She then says it is not really an owl, as it is grinning, laughing and viciously taunting her. She begins screaming and crying. She then begins to shout in Sumerian, but in a racous, guttural voice. She screams of pains in her shoulders, and it is revealed that she remembers drills and tubes and other torturous machines being used on her in an invasive and horrifically painful pseudo-medical examination. Abbey later wakes up in a hospital with a neck brace on. Sheriff August reveals to her that Will committed suicide, because whatever he was after drove him to the edge. Abbey concludes she must have unknowingly created a delusion to repress the actual events of that night.

During the 2002 interview, Abbey says her patients and herself were all kidnapped and then returned. They have no memory of where they went, but remember a feeling of total hopelessness. The interview ends, revealing Abbey is in a wheelchair, as her neck was also broken.

The film ends saying that Abbey was cleared of any wrongdoing, particularly in the disappearance of Ashley, who was never found. Her son, Ronnie is estranged from her. Abbey left Alaska and now lives on the East Coast of the continental U.S. It is also stated that Nome has had the highest number of unsolved disappearances in all of Alaska, and the FBI has visited them more than any other Alaskan city in the last fifty years.

Abductions

According to Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and Alaska Daily News, Nome, and other Alaskan towns, have their share of disappearances. The FBI has emphatically stated that the specific “disappearances” discussed in the film were the result of a combination of alcohol and frigid temperatures - not the “sensational and untrue” alien abductions portrayed in the film. The movie claims that there have been a disproportionately large amount of FBI investigations in Nome that are still unsolved. These claims receive heavy controversy from Native Alaskans who claim that the specific cases the movie has “hijacked” have nothing to do with alien abduction and the entire “owl” idea was the brainchild of the screenwriter. “The cases date back to the 1960s, with 10 since 1990. The victims were mostly Native men who had traveled to the Seward Peninsula’s commercial hub from smaller villages of the Bering Strait region.” In any remote area where temperatures can reach fifty degrees below zero, a simple thing like a trek to get supplies can end in disaster if the person gets lost, dehydrated, and begins to hallucinate.

The movie claims to be based on “real case studies” and real events - this has since been shown to be a lie in the vein of The Blair Witch Project or the film Cannibal Holocaust. The characters portrayed in the film are all fictitious, as an article by CNN demonstrated.

Controversy

The alleged real-life video footage and audio recordings used in The Fourth Kind are often denounced as mockumentary-style movie making. The Blu-Ray release of the film includes extra footage not included in the original theater release. One of these clips shows the murder-suicide documentary footage. With the volume turned up, a person off-camera can be heard yelling “Action!”

The film’s trailer states that the story is based on “actual case studies”, but did not specify any cases. As a result, much speculation had arisen regarding the search for documented evidence from the actual cases and whether Dr. Abigail Tyler is a real person or a fictional character for use in an internet viral marketing campaign. Actress Charlotte Milchard (seen at http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2598903/), was credited as “Nome resident”, bearing a striking resemblance to the supposed real-life Abbey Tyler seen in the documentary footage. Her IMDB status has since been updated and confirms that she is indeed the English actress who played the “Real Dr. Abigail Tyler”.

On September 2, 2009, an investigation by Izaak “Lord Norman” and the Detroit Daily News examined the validity of the film’s premise, and its relation to actual disappearances that have occurred in and around the town of Nome. The investigation found no specific events to back up the claims in the film and also revealed that unsolved deaths in Nome are no more a majority of disappearances (just as in other remote areas).

On November 12, 2009, Universal Pictures agreed to a $20,000 settlement with the Alaska Press Club “to settle complaints about fake news archives used to promote the movie.” Universal acknowledged that they created fake online news articles and obituaries to make it appear that the movie had a basis in real events. It is rumored that the interactive agency Earthbound Media Group, located in Irvine, CA, is responsible for this guerrilla marketing strategy as a third party agency hired by NBC.

The Fourth Kind 2009 Review (IMDB)

Why do so many people feel like a movie has to be a life changing event? This movie is a great way to spend 1 1/2 hours. The acting is very good. The “real” vs acting element is well done. Milla does a wonderful job drawing in the audience. The story is fun & the concept is entertaining.

Some movies are done just to provide entertainment. Nothing more, nothing less. This is one of those films.

Go with a good attitude and enjoy. There are no life lessons to learn. There is no great revelation. Just go for fun. Enjoy!

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