Universal has released the full synopsis for their upcoming sci-fi thriller THE FOURTH KIND, and it sounds very much up my alley. I do enjoy myself a good alien abduction yarn, and this has the potential to be one. It comes to us from one Olatunde Osunsanmi, who directed the spelunkers-in-peril horror show WIthIN (aka THE CAVERN), and more recently, co-wrote the screenplay for SMOKIN’ ACES 2. (Still can’t believe that movie exists.) Read on to learn what this sucker’s about…
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 (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.
THE FOURTH KIND will open on NOVEMBER 6th, against Richard Kelly’s THE BOX… That is, until one of them blinks and moves (I’m guessing THE BOX, since it can’t stay in one spot for too long.) It stars Milla Jovovich, Elias Koteas Will Patton and Hakeem Kae Kazim.