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 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.
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Movie Theaters & Showtimes
Movie theaters showing The Fourth Kind near Boston,MA:
Showcase Cinemas Revere in Revere, MA
AMC Loews Liberty Tree Mall 20 in Danvers, MA
Showcase Cinemas North Attleboro in North Attleboro, MA
Patriot/East Providence in East Providence, RI
Flagship Cinemas in Derry, NH
Cinemagic 15 & IMAX in Hooksett, NH
Movie Details
Running Time:
98 min
MPAA rating:
PG-13
(for violent/disturbing images, some terror, thematic elements and brief sexuality)
Release Date:
Nov 6, 2009
Director:
Olatunde Osunsanmi
Starring:
| Milla Jovovich | |
| Elias Koteas | |
| Will Patton | |
| Hakeem Kae-Kazim | |
| Corey Johnson |
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The big news about “The Fourth Kind’’ is that its supernatural horror is based on real events. This is true in the same way that Pamela Anderson’s chest is based on real breasts. In the opening scene, a blurry Milla Jovovich walks into focus and attempts to explain. “I am actress Milla Jovovich,’’ she says, as the camera jogs around her. After mentioning that her movie was taken from an actual case, she then lets us know that she’ll be playing Dr. Abigail Tyler, an actual psychologist in Alaska, who, while interviewing a rash of people claiming to have been abducted by aliens, winds up abducted herself. When you think of the money you left at the box office, you’ll know how she feels. (Full review)