The Fourth Kind

The Fourth Kind is a chilling tale about actual events that occurred in Nome, Alaska about several cases of alien abductions. The film uses actual video and audio recordings of “non-fictional” events to help boast its legitimacy. A lot of controversial discussions came at the release of this movie about its credibility and how true all the events actually are. Attempts to disprove some of these events through logic and facts were made. The Mayor of Nome, Alaska, Denise Michels, in several interviews said that The Fourth Kind is a science fiction movie and a lot of things that happened in the movie are not true and never happened in Nome. Just like the decision to believe in God or not, the power to believe in aliens is up to the individual. There are no proven facts that either exists, and only faith and the will to believe makes them real to a person. Will you believe; what you are told, what you see in a movie, or countless stories of witnessed UFO sightings and abductions? That is all up to your faith in something, but The Fourth Kind will insist that you believe this story.
Writer and director Olatunde Osunsanmi, tells the story of mysterious disappearances in Nome, Alaska and the journey of a psychologist, Abigal Tyler (Milla Jovovich), to solve them. Tyler’s husband has just been murdered and she takes it upon herself to continue the studies he has been conducting in Nome (which eventually relate to the disappearances). Her subjects are the sleep-depraved of the small Alaskan town. All of the patients report waking up several times in the night to see an owl outside their window watching them. Dr. Tyler decides to perform hypnosis to one of her patients to try and see if they can find out something he doesn’t remember from a past night. After put into a deep trance, the patient relives the moment he woke up and saw the owl. Only this time, the owl is gone and someone is entering his house through the front door. The intruders are the aliens. After this hypnosis treatment and another one performed on a similar case subject, Dr. Tyler comes to the conclusion that these patients were abducted by aliens and didn’t know it. The hypnosis therapy made the patients relive what really happened to them.
The first patient was traumatically affected by the realization of his “fourth kind” encounter, and without being able to mental withstand what he has learned he kills his family and commits suicide. Here I should add that the first encounter is a spotting of a UFO, the second encounter is when the aliens leave a physical trace, the third encounter is when you come in contact with the physical being, and finally, the fourth kind (described as the worse) is an alien abduction. The second patient receives a second hypnosis session, but this time the aliens use his body as a communication relay to talk to Dr. Tyler and her associates. They basically tell her to stop her studies or terrible things will happen to her. The patient is left paralyzed after his body was twisted and contorted in unnatural ways. Dr. Tyler continues her research since she is so determined to figure out what the aliens are doing and why people are being abducted. Terrible things do happen.
The inciting incident happens when Dr. Tyler is put in a state of hypnosis so she can try and recall the person who killed her husband. When she awakes she tells her doctor that she will continue her husbands researches and must figure out what he is after. This tells us that her husband was doing important research and was on the brink of a breakthrough.
Plot point one occurs when the first patient who is hypnotized sees the aliens come in to his house and attack him. He only remembered this while in the hypnotized state and didn’t know it had happened. Later in Tyler’s researches she encounters the aliens herself (but only in a hypnotized state) and they tell her to stop her studies or else terrible things will happen. Plot point two comes when something terrible does happen. The aliens kidnap her daughter and later tell Tyler that she will never be returned.
Dr. Tyler decides to be hypnotized one more time in order to communicate with the aliens again. This is the climax of the script. They take over her body and speak to her colleagues in the room. The alien that speaks through her insists that he is God and then continues to speak in an untranslated alien/foreign language. Tyler is left paralyzed and to this day her daughter has not been returned or found.

Written by: Olatunde Osunsanmi and Terry Robbins