| The clip for the chilling alien abduction suspenseful | | | | Burden, M.D., appears simply taking part in |
| story "The Fourth Kind", which premiers in | | | | relationship with references to "The Fourth Kind" if |
| theaters Nov. 6, bears an instant stamp of | | | | searched for on-line. |
| authenticity: A straight-faced Milla Jovovich strolls | | | | Universal, the movies distributor, seems to be |
| toward the camera while identifying herself as the | | | | taking a page from the marketing lines of "The |
| actress portraying Dr. Abigail Tyler, the movie's | | | | Blair Witch Project" and, more recently, |
| heroine. In succeeding quick-cut scenes, several of | | | | "Paranormal Activity" two movies that had a |
| which look like home video footage, Jovovich | | | | documentary approach. Part of the fun of those |
| interrogates frightened patients, all of whom | | | | films was based on the detail to facilitate they |
| recount similarly ominous extraterrestrial | | | | seemed real. (Both "The Blair Witch Project" and |
| encounters. At least one individual appears to fall | | | | "Paranormal Activity" were fiction.) Of course, |
| into ancient Sumerian through hypnosis, and an | | | | how real-sounding is a subplot around alien |
| expert talks regarding millennium-old hieroglyphics | | | | abductions, anyway? Universal has declined to |
| containing images of astronauts. | | | | comment on articles regarding questions on just |
| "This is a dramatization of events that occurred in | | | | how accurate the movie is. |
| Oct. 2000", Jovovich intones. "Every scene in this | | | | One point approaching "The Fourth Kind" that |
| movie is supported by archive footage". | | | | seems based on truth: The alarmed state of the |
| Nevertheless is it? | | | | patients within the preview match real-life |
| The motion picture revolves around a sequence | | | | reactions of persons who believe they have been |
| of real-life disappearances that took place in | | | | abducted by aliens, according to Christopher C. |
| Nome, Alaska caused, while the film suggests, by | | | | French, who teaches in the field of the |
| aliens. But at the same time as local newspapers | | | | psychology department at Goldsmiths College in |
| have revealed, the FBI ruled the disappearances | | | | London and routinely lectures on the matter of |
| were due to too much alcohol consumption and | | | | said alien abductions. |
| the harsh winters. There's a bio of Dr. Abigail | | | | Although the film claims to be a reenactment of |
| Tyler on the net, cite an article she published | | | | genuine events, several viewers who have seen |
| within the June 1997 issue of the American | | | | the promo are still suspect of its validity. |
| Journal psychotherapy. Though neither Tyler's | | | | According to Anchorage Daily News, nobody has |
| employer nor her Alma Mater is listed, the | | | | heard of Tyler, if she's a real person or one more |
| journals name is rendered incorrectly (it's | | | | fabrication of the studio to make the film look like |
| American Journal of Psychiatry) and a colleague | | | | another "Blair Witch" project. |
| mentioned taking part in the bio, Dr. Samuel | | | | |