The Fourth Kind
Short description
The Fourth Kind is a mystery thriller set in and around Nome, Alaska, where an unusually high number of residents have disappeared since the 1960s. FBI investigations have failed to explain the cases. Psychologist Dr. Abigail Tyler, known as Abbey, continues research begun by her late husband, recording hypnotherapy sessions with patients who report sleeplessness, a watching owl at the window and terrifying nighttime experiences they cannot fully recall. When one patient reacts to hypnosis with extreme violence, the local sheriff blames her methods and dismisses her findings, leaving her to pursue the meaning of strange words and images with the help of a colleague and a specialist in ancient languages. The film presents itself as drawn from documented case material.
Olatunde Osunsanmi directed and wrote the screenplay; Paul Brooks, Joe Carnahan and Terry Robbins produced. Milla Jovovich plays Abbey, with Elias Koteas, Will Patton, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Corey Johnson and Enzo Cilenti among the credited cast of twenty-three. The film was the first Osunsanmi directed, ahead of Evidence and Star Trek: Section 31.
Made for about 10 million dollars, it took roughly 48 million worldwide, a strong return. On IMDb it holds 5.9 from around 86,000 votes, and on TMDB 6.4 from a much smaller pool, while the critics' rating stands at 4.2 from 114 reviews, well below both audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- Fictionalized interviews used throughout the film angered the families of real missing persons from the town of Nome, Alaska. Melanie Edwards, Vice President of Kawerak Inc. (a non-profit organization representing Alaska Tribal Nations), described the film as “insensitive to family members of people who have gone missing in Nome over the years.” However, representatives of Universal Pictures refused to meet with either the organization or local journalists.
- Squamish, British Columbia, Canada, served as the "stand-in" for Nome.
- According to promotional materials from Universal Pictures, the film tells the story of a psychologist named Abigail Tyler who examined sick patients in Nome. However, the chief licensing officer for the State of Alaska, Ian Mays, said he could find no record of Abigail Tyler and that she never received a license to practice in the state. Ron Adler, Executive Director of the Alaska Psychiatric Institute, and Dennis Dillard, President of the Alaska Psychological Association, said they had never heard of Abigail Tyler. Websites for the “Alaska Psychiatric Journal” and the “Alaska News Archive” containing references to Tyler were created by the film's producers but were later removed due to fabrication when it was discovered they were created a month before the film's release, and one of the news article’s authors stated she had never written them.
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