Hmm. Turns out the people of Nome, Alaska should have been paying attention when David Lynch warned that "the owls are not what they seem" in Twin Peaks ...
Supposedly based on actual events - and incorporating archival footage of authentic therapy sessions - Milla Jovovich stars in The 4th Kind, portraying a psychotherapist working in Nome who begins to encounter a number of patients who believe that they have been abducted by aliens. Which would be easy to write off if not for the facts that Nome actually does have a freakishly high rate of missing persons for no reason that anyone has ever been able to determine and the patients reveal detailed accounts of the abductions while under hypnosis.
The 4th Kind comes from the producers of The Haunting In Connecticut - which I thought was really a pretty effective piece of mainstream horror - and obviously they've realized the power of this 'true life' approach to horror. When you treat it seriously, your audience will as well ...
Check the trailer below the break.
**YAWN**
or correct my slpelling
I loved Haunting in Connecticut, and this looks solid to me too. I'll be looking forward to it...
Certainly peeked my interest seeing that they are integrating the real footage in to the story.
Milla Jovovich in the lead equals bad movie.
Communion scared the shit out of me as a kid, so I'm into the subject matter. The "real" footage was cool, but doubt that will be a part of the film. I'd be more interested in a doc, but this could be cool.
communion was a very forboding film. (much more than the truly awful "fire in the sky".....).
it scared me stupid too!!! cristopher walkens bewilderment, anger and utter confusion throughout the film added to the tension!!
what i have been pleased by, in recent months, is the rise in 'intelligent' sci-fi films being made. 'moon' 'district 9' and 'avatar' seem to be spearheading the next wave of future 'classics'.
the documentry style,inspired, no doubt by blair witch, offers the genre a unique angle, in my view.
Saw this online and then before District 9. Seeing it on the big screen was much much worse.