How much of fourth kind is real

This film is a dramatisation of events that occurred October Every scene in this movie is supported by archive footage. Some of what you are about to see is extremely disturbing. At least the latter statement is accurate, although not for the reasons intended by the filmmakers.

This approach seems to have backfired badly on the filmmakers as most reviews of the film are highly critical of this unconvincing "archive footage". Kyle Hopkins wrote an excellent piece for the Anchorage Daily News debunking the movie. He conceded that there is a long history of disappearances and suspicious deaths in Nome.

They have been investigated by the FBI who "mostly blamed alcohol and the cruel Alaska winter". Hopkins goes on:. According to promotional materials from Universal, the film is framed around a psychologist named Abigail Tyler who interviewed traumatized patients in Nome. But state licensing examiner Jan Mays says she can't find records of an Abigail Tyler ever being licensed in any profession in Alaska. No one by that name lived in Nome in recent years, according to a search of public record databases.

Still, there is a shred of "evidence. Except the site is suspiciously vacant, mostly a collection of articles on sleep studies with no home page or contact information. Denise Dillard is president of the Alaska Psychological Association. Hopkins also points out that Nome is not, as portrayed in the film, a city surrounded by beautiful mountains but is instead "a flat tundra town at the shore of the Bering Sea". The film revolves around an incident in which a psychologist named Abigail Emily Tyler tries to find the reason for the death of her beloved husband in Nome, Alaska.

She decides to proceed with clients that have insomnia and amnesia after seeing a white owl. When she uses hypnosis with two clients, they get nervous and have breakdowns. The film reveals terrified accounts of multiple witnesses that share disturbing details which are investigated throughout the film.

When Abigail finds that she had also seen the owl, she pushes herself to the edge with tragic consequences. The Fourth Kind is directed and written by Olatunde Osunsanmi. Lorenzo Senatore did the cinematography of the movie whereas Atli Orvarsson did the composition of the music.

Not so the big dog of the small screen, The X-Files , which has done more to popularise UFOlogy than any other work before or since. Heroic FBI agent and paranormal investigator Fox Mulder David Duchovny is motivated to chase down the weirder cold cases in the FBI vault by having witnessed his sister being abducted by aliens as a child, exposing him to whole vistas of weirdness, culminating in a covert attempt by hostile aliens to colonise Earth.

Those are fictions, of course, but other abductee movies purport to be based on fact. Author Whitley Strieber not only gave us the horror novels The Wolfen and The Hunger — both the basis for great films, by the way — in he published the book Communion , detailing his supposed experiences as an alien abductee.

In French-Australian director Phillippe Mora brought the book to the screen with Christopher Walken playing Strieber, a casting choice that somewhat dulled the impact, seeing as Walken is a pretty alien guy himself.

Better, then, is the film Fire in the Sky , which recounts the abduction of timber worker Travis Walton D. Sweeney , who disappeared for five days and claimed to have been aboard an alien craft during that time. Now, all these works deal with the iconic Grey aliens — the little guys with big black eyes, slit mouths, and bulging crania that have become our default concept of strange visitors from another planet, but which came first?

Source: Roadshow Films. Which brings us back to The Fourth Kind , with its owl motif. Owls kind of look like grey aliens, with their big, blank eyes, rounded heads, and smooth features, and so the idea of an encounter with a Grey being interpreted as an owl by a confused and frightened human mind might occur to a canny filmmaker. A marked uptick in owl-like alien encounters, witnesses correlating their dreams of owls with alien abductions, and even a number of books on the very subject one, Stories From The Messengers by Mike Clelland, even boasts an introduction by Strieber.

Now, maybe that tells us that UFO abductees are simple fabulists, taking their cues from the pop culture of the day. The Fourth Kind Since the s, a disproportionate number of the population in and around Nome, Alaska, have gone missing.