Keepin' it Reel: The 4th Kind Published April 6, 2010 By 39th Air Base Wing Public Affairs INCIRLIK AIR BASE, Turkey -- Synopsis (according to IMDB): 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. Modern-day, 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 began videotaping sessions with traumatized patients and unwittingly discovered some of the most disturbing evidence of alien abduction ever documented. 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. Chazz The Fourth Kind = Genuinely Scary I don't really measure movies on their scary factor, but rather their creepy factor. Scary, to me, is pop out and surprise you, or loud, sudden music that gets you to jump. "Creepy" digs itself into your head and makes your goose bumps and hair on the back of your neck rise. It festers in your mind and makes you really question if what you just saw can really happen. The Fourth Kind did that to me. I went into this movie creped out because I don't like aliens, I don't like movies that have "real footage" and I don't like Alaska. Throw those three ingredients together and you have a good thriller. You may laugh because alien movies are dumb, and traditionally they are, but not this one. And yeah, I do think that aliens are real, I mean, you would have to be extremely naive to believe otherwise. We live in an infinite universe, and yet we're the only people out there? All right, I'll step off my soapbox. The movie surrounds the town of Nome, Alaska, a psychologist and her dealings with strange occurrences to her patients and her. The patients all come to her with a similar story of white owls that stare at them at night, only to be confused by the fact that they know it's not an owl, but something else. Confused? I know, but it's way creepy. The movie really gets going when the patients are hypnotized to try and reveal what is really going on. I don't want to give away anymore, but I'll just say some of the "actual footage" is like The Exorcist meets Paranormal Activity. The movie is sold as if it were a real story with real characters, occurrences and footage. I'm not sure if it is or not, but it makes you question, and that's what the movie creators wanted. So I say SEE IT, but keep an open mind. And don't rush to make a helmet out of tin foil, because this movie is not like that - rather be on the lookout for an owl staring at you with black eyes through your window at night. Smallfry- "The Fourth Kind" fact or fiction? Hmmm... Here's another movie that leaves you wondering, what if? Like Paranormal Activity, The Fourth Kind isn't filmed like a normal movie. They mix real video/audio tapes from real people, with actors and actresses portraying them. The Fourth Kind has a few parts where you jump and grab your teddy bear for protection, but for the most part it isn't real scary. It mostly has you thinking if alien abductions are real. On a scale from 1-10, I give this movie a 3. I really didn't enjoy it that much. I love scary movies that make me scream, but this one just didn't cut it. The Fourth Kind made Paranormal Activity the best scary movie of all time, and we know that isn't true. I guess the main reason I didn't enjoy the movie is because they try to make you believe that aliens did all these crazy things and I just wasn't convinced. My debate is, if all this really happened like they are trying to say it happened, how come it wasn't on the news? I have never heard of this. Also, they claim to have "real police footage" in this movie. The case is still open and unsolved to this day, so they say. If this is true, then I highly doubt the police would just hand over footage to make a movie with. Or how come the news didn't say anything about this Ashley Tyler girl who went missing because aliens took her? I just think her mother went crazy because her husband died. Another thing to back that theory up is that her son didn't want to have anything to do with her. Yes, I understand kids might not be able to handle their father dieing, but if his sister really disappeared like the mother claims, how come the son didn't stick by her side. I'm sorry, but no matter what happens in life, if my sister up and vanishes one day out of her room, I'm going to be more concerned in finding her and figuring out what happened instead of being a spoiled kid and just leaving my mother who is losing her mind and my sister who disappeared. Basically, I am not convinced. This is Smallfry, telling it like it is. Lambchop The 4th Kind: I'm scared of Owls So the 4th kind was scary. I don't care what anyone says, the movie freaked me out and anybody that developed irrational fears of alien abductions when they were children (like me) would agree. Yeah that's right, I remember lying in bed as a child just waiting for "them" to beam down their light and take me away, well that, or I would wake up pregnant, but we can discuss my religious induced fears in a later segment. This movie re-affirmed all those childhood fears in an interesting/educational two hours. The movie was based on a "true" story told from the women that it all supposedly happened to and some of the actual footage shown throughout the movie is just creepy. The main character listens to these people telling their stories and they keep talking about owls. Then only to realize through hypnosis, what they thought was a beautiful bird, was something extremely more frightening. So many people had these stories to tell, of sightings, missing people, unexplained memories and unsolved cases of missing people just in that little town of Nome, Alaska. It makes you wonder. Are there really extra terrestrial beings visiting our planet and messing with us in our sleep? How could we know if we were sleeping and they erased our memory? The movie was good, it scared the crap out of me and the storyline was pretty good. I would definitely recommend it to others who believe that there's no possible way that Humans are the only intelligent life forms in out infinite universe!