Universal Pictures has released a new batch of stills from the upcoming alien abduction spookfest THE FOURTH KIND, starring Milla Jovovich, Will Patton, and Elias Koteas. It was directed by relative newcomer Olatunde Osunsanmi, whom you can see in the bottom picture.
Buzz has been fairly positive for the picture, if we’re to believe the word of mouth coming from early screenings. Perhaps most beneficial to THE FOURTH KIND, aside from those creepy commercials, is the success of PARANORMAL ACTIVITY. Although a more straight-forward movie, FOURTH KIND also utilizes the “actual footage” gimmick that’s making PARANORMAL a hit right now… Guess we’ll see on NOVEMBER 6th just how scary this one is…
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.