The Fourth Kind … Fact or Fiction? True or False? It’s Up to You to Decide
With The Fourth Kind (starring Milla Jovovich, Elias Koteas and Will Patton) hitting theaters today, many people will be wondering what to make of the supernatural thriller. Well, here’s as much as the creators are willing to spill on the film …
McLaughlin’s review of The Fourth Kind
It’s Up to You to Decide…
In 1972, a scale of measurement was established for alien encounters.
The Fourth Kind, abduction, has been the most difficult to document…until now.
Background of the Thriller
In October 2004, filmmaker Olatunde Osunsanmi had wrapped principal photography on his
thriller The Cavern and traveled to North Carolina for postproduction. While there, a chance
dinner conversation sparked an interest that would be the genesis of The Fourth Kind.
A colleague told him of a psychologist living in the Carolinas who relocated from a remote town
along the Bering Sea. In Alaska, she had conducted a sleep disorder study that revealed terrifying
data. What Osunsanmi heard fascinated him…all the more because it was heavily documented.
Through his contact, he tracked her down. After some reluctance, she shared her story.
In Fall 2000, the therapist’s patients, under hypnosis, exhibited behaviors that suggested
encounters with non humans. Before sleep, every person recalled a white owl outside his or her
window. They woke up paralyzed, hearing horrific noises from beyond their doors just before an
unknown assailant pulled them screaming from their rooms. Subsequent memories went dark.
As the doctor investigated the phenomenon, she discovered a history of missing people and
bizarre activity from the region, dating back to the 1960s. The more she dug, the more she
believed the unbelievable: Her patients’ stories were not false memories, but comprehensive
evidence of alien abductions.
Sampling of Actual Reported Alien Activity in Alaska
· In February 1965, an Air Force officer and flight crew, en route from Anchorage to Japan,
obtained a radar-visual sighting of three enormous objects. The UFOs paced the F-169
freighter aircraft over the Pacific and disappeared at a speed of at least 1,500 mph.
· Air Force Lt. Col. Wendelle C. Stevens’ testimonials of gun-camera footage that captured
flying saucers over Alaskan airspace and a mid-flight disappearance in 1972 of Alaska’s U.S.
State Sen. Nick Begich are but a sampling of the stories of extraterrestrial presence.
· In November 1986, in airspace off the coast of Anchorage, Captain Kenju Terauchi and the
crew of Japan Airlines Flight 1628 reported a massive extraterrestrial “mother ship” two
times the size of an aircraft carrier. Their insistence was backed up by radar returns.
Experience The Fourth Kind
Using never-before-seen archival footage integrated into the film, Osunsanmi exposes the
terrified revelations of multiple witnesses. Their accounts of being visited by aliens share
disturbingly identical details, the validity of which is investigated throughout the film.
The Fourth Kind arrives 11/06/09. Decide for yourself at www.facebook.com/thefourthkind.
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5 Comments
I just saw Olatunde Osunsanmi’s movie, The Fourth Kind tonight.
Beyond this being a poorly written, poorly directed and poorly acted movie, the flick is a total hoax and an irresponsible treatment of the whole alien abduction phenomenon!
I write this as a mental health professional who has worked with real UFO abductees/experiencers. And, in a manner only faintly similar to the main character in the movie, I got into this lifelong research because of my own experiences.
First the movie takes an enigmatic and sometimes frightening, but real, phenomenon and turns it into total horror – giving the public a completely distorted view of what is going on. More than once, while watching the movie I had the passing thought that this foul flick might be some kind of disinformation – designed to ward the public away from discovering what we actually know about this phenomenon.
Finally, I am aghast that this movie writer/director would try to pass this garbage off as “the real thing” – complete with “documentary” footage! Fake website information was even (poorly) done to advance this hoax. As a lifetime serious UFO researcher, I have come to despise the hoaxers, because people, we are not dealing with fantasy here!
The only positive thing about this movie is that the footage is so poorly done, the few reality-based facts so embellished and over-dramatized, and the “documentary” footage so unlike the real-life regression hypnosis sessions I have conducted or observed, that the credibility of the film becomes suspect at the instant of its screening.
In my opinion, Olatunde Osunsanmi is a user of the worst kind and I hope his lack of integrity and character in the film world will serve to be his undoing.
Possible Back Story: I live in the rural Carolinas. A number of years ago, I was put in contact with a Hollywood director who wanted to do a movie on my experiences, though I refused to proceed because I didn’t trust what he would do with the real story. I don’t know if the above account has any connection, but the real phenomenon is so intriguing that I cannot understand why the movie industry has to exaggerate, embellish and distort real events to turn the whole thing into horror. It’s problems like these that keep the real stories (including mine) out of the public eye.
I loved the 4th kind, because I can honestly say that I was convinced and took the footage and presentation to be true (and I was entertained while watching), BUT looking at I. M. Confidential’s comments, I am having second thoughts on the validity of it all. Maybe I’m just gullible!
@I. M. Confidential. Judging by your name, I can already assume the response to my request, BUT– I would LOVE to hear the true story/your story if you are willing to disclose it! (The whole “the real phenomenon is so intriguing” comment really has me on the edge of my chair, waiting to hear your story!)
So was the “Footage” real?
I would like to hear your “real story” as well……. I think you are nothing but a hater, i think what we saw on the video tapes was most definitely real… at least in some way. If you have more convincing information than someone on video, however distorted it may be… I don’t believe you have done any psychological studies nor do I believe that you have obtained crudentials to do so….. lets all just get on here and squash someones work……. in your comments there is absolutely no evidence that proves what went on in that film.. until I see that evidence i’m going to go ahead and believe that lady’s video footage, and old home boy killing his entire family including himself right after being under hypnosis to find out what happened at night. so bring it on @I.M. Confidential
Anon the filmmakers made the “real” footage along with the “movie” footage. All of it was created by the same guys and the real “Dr” in the movie was another (but lesser known) actress.
Here is a link to a CNN article discussing the movie.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/06/fourth.kind.real/index.html