Any of you like movies about aliens? You know, like Close Encounters of the Third KindClose Encounters of the Third Kind reviews or Fire in the SkyFire in the Sky reviews? Well you are in luck. Universal Pictures has released their one sheet for their science fiction thriller The Fourth Kindthe fourth kind reviews that will hit theaters on NovemberNovember reviews 6th. The teaser posters didn’t leave much to the imagination – showing a body floating off the bed while  explaining the term “fourth kind” as being the label used for alien encounters that involve abduction. But the one sheet pretty much confirms that is what the film will be about by detailing the four different types of alien encounters that most of us still remember ever since Steven Spielberg had little Barry Guiler open the back door to the home he shared with his mother.

Like FireFire reviews in the Sky and Communion, two other films detailing man’s physical encounters with aliens, The Fourth Kind is also “based on true events”. In this case, a string of supposed alien abductions in Nome, Alaska over the last 40 years. Here is the official synopsis:

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, AlaskaAlaska reviews, 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.

You can check out the trailer here, and see how the film will look:

I don’t believe in alien abductions, but I am intrigued by this film because of how they are mixing the “real” footage in with the movie. It’s a nice hook that I hope director Olatunde Osunsanmi is able to pull off. Something else any film can use to get some asses in the seats is a bit of controversy – and this film has a bit of it. See, people actually do go missing in Nome, Alaska. Since the 1960s, there have been about 20 disappearances and unexplained deaths reported in the city.

Residents blamed it on a serial killer, while the FBI blamed it on alcohol. Either way, the residents and family members of the missing did not blame it on aliens and they are a bit upset that their tragedy is being turned into HollywoodHollywood reviews fodder. You can read a very interesting article about it here including an amusing shot-by-shot comparison of the Nome, Alaska shown in the trailer next to a shot of the real Nome, Alaska.

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