A glance into "The Fourth Kind

The clip for the chilling alien abduction suspenseful story "The Fourth Kind", which premiers in theaters Nov. 6, bears an instant stamp of authenticity: A straight-faced Milla Jovovich strolls toward the camera while identifying herself as the actress portraying Dr. Abigail Tyler, the movies heroine. In succeeding quick-cut scenes, several of which look like home video footage, Jovovich interrogates frightened patients, all of whom recount similarly ominous extraterrestrial encounters. At least one individual appears to fall into ancient Sumerian through hypnosis, and an expert talks regarding millennia-old hieroglyphics containing images of astronauts.

"This is a dramatization of events that occurred in Oct. 2000", Jovovich intones. "Every scene in this movie is supported by archive footage".

Neverthelessis it?

The motion picture revolves around a sequence of real-life disappearances that took place in Nome, Alaska caused, while the film suggests, by aliens. But at the same time as local newspapers have revealed, the FBI ruled the disappearances were due to too much alcohol consumption and the harsh winters. There's a bio of Dr. Abigail Tyler on the net, cite an article she published within the June 1997 issue of the American Journal psychotherapy. Though neither Tyler's employer nor her Alma Mater is listed, the journals name is rendered incorrectly (it's American Journal of Psychiatry) and a colleague mentioned taking part in the bio, Dr. Samuel Burden, M.D., appears simply taking part in relationship with references to "The Fourth Kind" if searched for on-line.

Universal, the movies distributor, seems to be taking a page from the marketing lines of "The Blair Witch Project" and, more recently, "Paranormal Activity" two movies that had a documentary approach. Part of the fun of those films was based on the detail to facilitate they seemed real. (Both "The Blair Witch Project" and "Paranormal Activity" were fiction.) Of course, how real-sounding is a subplot around alien abductions, anyway? Universal has declined to comment on articles regarding questions on just how accurate the movie is.

One point approaching "The Fourth Kind" that seems based on truth: The alarmed state of the patients within the preview match real-life reactions of persons who believe they have been abducted by aliens, according to Christopher C. French, who teaches in the field of the psychology department at Goldsmiths College in London and routinely lectures on the matter of said alien abductions.

Although the film claims to be a reenactment of genuine events, several viewers who have seen the promo are still suspect of its validity. According to Anchorage Daily News, nobody has heard of Tyler, if she's a real person or one more fabrication of the studio to make the film look like another "Blair Witch" project.

When the paper asked Universal if the whole movie is a fake, the studio had no comment