Here’s to give you an idea of an unconventional alien suspense flick but I don’t know if audiences will like the format. Sci-Fi Wire has the trailer for THE FOURTH KIND starring Milla Jovovich, Will Patton, Elias Koteas and it’s directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi, based on his screenplay. As you can see from the video below, it’s one of those movies that try to scare you by using true story accounts, but most scenes will be divided into actual footage incorporated into the movie. At this point, I don’t like how it crosses over, back and forth from Jovovich’s re-enactment and the footage. Does that format make the movie scarier to you?
In 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.
THE FOURTH KIND opens November 6th, 2009
