[ECC]

I saw the new movie "The Fourth Kind" with my girlfriend tonight. Before I had seen previews and thought it was going to be pretty terrible. I decided what the hell and went to see it anyway. The movie claims to show "real footage" throughout the movie. I hear rumors online that it just might be a "Blair Witch" type thing, and is totally staged for publicity for the movie. However, if it is real... it's some of the best damn footage ever- especially the police UFO video. If it's fake, that's some f'd up stuff and somebody is going to hell.

Let's get to the bottom of this!

[BlindMessiah]

It's fake. The company made all of the footage and created a fake website to back it up but later had to take the website down.

[jel0sh]

ECC, on 07 November 2009 - 02:08 AM, said:

I saw the new movie "The Fourth Kind" with my girlfriend tonight. Before I had seen previews and thought it was going to be pretty terrible. I decided what the hell and went to see it anyway. The movie claims to show "real footage" throughout the movie. I hear rumors online that it just might be a "Blair Witch" type thing, and is totally staged for publicity for the movie. However, if it is real... it's some of the best damn footage ever- especially the police UFO video. If it's fake, that's some f'd up stuff and somebody is going to hell.

Let's get to the bottom of this!

I think most of its probably fake, but the police ufo video footage while I'm sure its probably fake too, ever time I see that I could swear I've seen that video footage somewhere before, either online or on tv I dunno but I keep getting extreme deja vu...its odd

[fandango]

I dont know if its real or fake, but it is out over here very soon if not now.
Slightly off topic i know but do you recommend going to see it?

[ECC]

I'd be majorly bummed if it was fake. It's messed up how you go into the film thinking that it might be real. If it's fake, it's false advertising.. big time. I went to see it because it's based on "true case studies" supposedly. You should definitely go see it and check it out for yourselves!

[ValkyrieVoice]

Great. Just great.

[Stratocaster]

It's best to just stay away from this movie. The 'real' footage is so over the top it will make you cringe watching it as they try to pass it off as something real. The 'actual audio' files were just as bad if not worse. If you do decide to waste money on this film, good luck on not pulling your own hair out when the 'real' Dr. Abigail continues to talk like a bad acting emotional robot in her 'interview'.

[Hazzard]

Marketing campaign.

The film's trailer states that the story is based on "actual case studies," but does not specify which cases. As a result, much speculation has arisen regarding the search for documented evidence from the actual cases and whether Dr. Abigail Tyler is a real person or a fictional character for use in an internet viral marketing campaign.

On September 1, 2009, an investigation by the Anchorage Daily News examined the validity of the film's premise, and its relation to actual disappearances that have occurred in and around the town of Nome.

The investigation found no specific events to back up the claims in the film and also revealed that unsolved deaths in Nome are no more frequent than any other small Alaskan town. The consensus is that the high rate of alcoholism combined with the harsh landscape surrounding Nome accounts for a majority of disappearances (just as in other remote areas).

http://en.wikipedia....The_Fourth_Kind

[Stratocaster]

Hazzard, on 07 November 2009 - 10:09 AM, said:

Marketing campaign.

The film's trailer states that the story is based on "actual case studies," but does not specify which cases. As a result, much speculation has arisen regarding the search for documented evidence from the actual cases and whether Dr. Abigail Tyler is a real person or a fictional character for use in an internet viral marketing campaign.

On September 1, 2009, an investigation by the Anchorage Daily News examined the validity of the film's premise, and its relation to actual disappearances that have occurred in and around the town of Nome.

The investigation found no specific events to back up the claims in the film and also revealed that unsolved deaths in Nome are no more frequent than any other small Alaskan town. The consensus is that the high rate of alcoholism combined with the harsh landscape surrounding Nome accounts for a majority of disappearances (just as in other remote areas).

http://en.wikipedia....The_Fourth_Kind

Exactly. This movie could have been a little better if they didn't try to pass it off as real. But it's a bad movie regardless.

[DONTEATUS]

It seems the more fake it is the more CT there will be ? Go Finger?

[starlight64]

"View PostHazzard, on 07 November 2009 - 10:09 AM, said:
Marketing campaign.

The film's trailer states that the story is based on "actual case studies," but does not specify which cases. As a result, much speculation has arisen regarding the search for documented evidence from the actual cases and whether Dr. Abigail Tyler is a real person or a fictional character for use in an internet viral marketing campaign.

On September 1, 2009, an investigation by the Anchorage Daily News examined the validity of the film's premise, and its relation to actual disappearances that have occurred in and around the town of Nome.

The investigation found no specific events to back up the claims in the film and also revealed that unsolved deaths in Nome are no more frequent than any other small Alaskan town. The consensus is that the high rate of alcoholism combined with the harsh landscape surrounding Nome accounts for a majority of disappearances (just as in other remote areas).

http://en.wikipedia....The_Fourth_Kind"

Stratocaster, on 07 November 2009 - 12:06 PM, said:

Exactly. This movie could have been a little better if they didn't try to pass it off as real. But it's a bad movie regardless.

I went to see this tonight. And I have to say it was pretty freaky, and creepy. IMO. I have also read the stories about the created website and whether Abigail Tyler is real. I do however believe it's possible and this is why:
1. At the end of the movie they listed several of the characters and what the had to do w/ the film but next to their names it said (Alias). Even though they didn't have that next to Dr. Abigail Tyler's name, who's to say that she isn't also using an alias? I don't know that I believe the woman on screen portrayed as "the real Abigail Tyler" was the real Doctor that this movie was based on at all. I'm not totally convinced that the woman talking in full color view is even the same woman as the one shown in the Black and white so called archival footage. It was kind of hard to tell.

2. If She wasn't the real doctor And they were using an alias... what if an overzealous marketer decided to create this website to make her alias a real person to build up the film? Then, realizing it made it seem less credible instead, took it down? The real doctor may not have wanted her identity known or gave them permission to release it.

3. For years people scream government cover up in investigations like this. Also, people that may or may not be directly involved in incidents like these may not always be so quick to come forward out of fear of ridicule. So would we expect investigators to get information from anyone easily?

4. If all the other names have been changed what if this actually happened somewhere other than NOME, Alaska?

If it did happen in Nome, Alaska... At the end of the movie It says that there were A disproportionate # of FBI investigations (Thousands) done in NOME Compared to a much larger nearby Anchorage(hundreds) around the same time period. Is there a way to check this fact? Or would that be classified information?

I don't know exactly what I believe about this movie. But I have to say that if there is even A slight possibility that any of the archival footage or the story is true.. It sends the creep factor through the roof!

[BlindMessiah]

ECC, on 07 November 2009 - 08:29 AM, said:

I'd be majorly bummed if it was fake. It's messed up how you go into the film thinking that it might be real. If it's fake, it's false advertising.. big time. I went to see it because it's based on "true case studies" supposedly. You should definitely go see it and check it out for yourselves!

The person who was conducting these "true case studies" isn't even a real human being. The production company created fake credentials for the person and the only source that she ever even existed was the production company itself.

[ECC]

Yeah... I know they were using aliases... it's a tough call!

[Cpl599]

Texas Chainsaw Massacre was also marketed as "based on true events"....

[sinewave]

It's a movie not a documentary.