The Fourth Kind

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“A thriller involving an ongoing unsolved mystery in Alaska, where one town has seen an extraordinary number of unexplained disappearances during the past 40 years and there are accusations of a federal cover up.”

Like with the Blair Witch Project, you have to really watch how films are publicized. At the very opening of the movie, Milla Jovovich comes on stating that she will be playing in a dramatization alongside real archival footage. This is yet another take of the found footage genre. But a ver convincing one. In fact, before my father passed away, he loved to watch this movies with his buddies to freak them out.

Humans fear what they can’t explain or don’t understand. One of those things, argued for many centuries, in many cultures, is the existence of life on other planets. By including “archival footage” of a psychiatrist documenting things, this amps up that fear. No gore required.

There are aspects that do mirror scientific discovers, such as Sumerian language and the like. Add to that the remote location and you have a perfect mix.

I am not going to lie, this movie is brilliant for how it presents itself. It uses sounds and recollections to draw on our innate fears.

Although, still not moving to a remote area like that. Fiction or not.