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I wanted to see THE FOURTH KIND when it played theaters. For whatever reason, it didn't happen. I'm kicking myself in the ass now.
I screened the Blu-Ray of the film last night and it scared the living crap out of me. I've always been fond of Alien abduction tales, FIRE IN THE SKY, hell even CLOSE ENCOUNTERS but nothing can compare or prepare you for what you witness in THE FOURTH KIND.
There will be spoilers ahead!
I think what really got me is the way that they interject the actual live recordings and video footage into the tale of Dr. Abbey Tyler. It's a "based on actual events" tale and those "actual" recordings really drive that fact home. Some of them are extremely difficult to watch. The segment in which one of Dr. Tylers patients kills his family and then himself is particularly disturbing. I didn't want to watch it, but I couldn't look away. Really compelling stuff.
There are actually several of the "actual footage" moments that are just riveting.
The film follows Dr. Tyler from the death of her husband through a series of events with a number of her patients to the ultimate abduction of her young daughter.
Is any of it real? Who cares! It's great creepy film making. A web search will bring up the fact that while there have been a very high number of "mysterious occurrences" in and around the Nome, Alaska area the FBI have written if off to "harsh weather and alcohol consumption." Actually probably very likely.
But, what if, WHAT IF these folks were taken by aliens. That's what this film ponders and it does it very well.
THE FOURTH KIND takes the BLAIR WITCH style of film making and kind of ups the ante 10 fold. The way they create this whole back story and created all that "archival footage" it had to be daunting and it works, it really does.
I really enjoyed THE FOURTH KIND and highly recommend you give it a spin in your home video player.
Of course the Blu-Ray looked and sounded unbelievable. I'm not a tech geek, all I can tell you is that the picture was one of the clearest and sharpest that I had ever seen and when the people in some of those "archival tapes" start screaming in that creepy language it just about blew me through the wall. It all adds to the overall creepiness of the flick. If you have access to Blu-Ray I strongly urge you to see it that way. But, if all you got is standard DVD still check this one out, especially if you're a UFO fan. I haven't seen one done much better than this.
Suprisingly not a lot of specail features on the disc. Some deleted scenes and something called D-Box Motion enabled. Just got my BD player so I'm afraid I don't even know what the hell that is. It's also BD Live enabled BUT I don't have mine hooked up to the internet yet so I can't comment on that either.
I know, what the hell good am I. Going to hook this baby up to the internet this week though so my future reviews will include discussions of the BD Live content.
THE FOURTH KIND is out now and available where ever you buy your home entertainment.
Now go get it!
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