SoSheOhPathix
28-10-2010, 09:53 AM
The Fourth Kindhttp://www.grrr.co.za/forum/MGalleryItem.php?id=20
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi... something like that.
There's a little town in Alaska (okay, there are a lot of little towns in Alaska (I think groups of people huddle together to try ward off hypothermia and other less pleasant stuff), but this one is special) called Nome (not the little dudes with the red hat from L4D2, Stu... that's a Gnome). You cannot access Nome by road. You have to fly in. That fact, I believe, has some significance.
Nome is full of whackjobs.... loads and loads of sleep disorders.
Dr. Abigail Tyler is the town shrink, and she is treating a lot of these whackjobs.
(Dr. Tyler is played by Mila Jovovich, but unfortunately she doesn't wear any of the Resident Evil costumes.)
Turns out, they all have pretty much the same problem... waking up at around 0230, seeing weird stuff (one specific owl, mainly). She tries to get to the bottom (*snigger*... you'll get it later) of the problem through hypnosis. That's when shit goes pear-shaped. Some things, people are probably better off not remembering. Especially in Nome.
What is rather disturbing about this movie, is that it's based on fact, and supported by genuine audio and video footage from the case files of the real Abigail Tyler (and some police dash-cams, too), and an interview she gave to a university in the US.
Not the usual grainy, "What the hell was that?" footage, either.
A university luinguist/historian, specialising in Sumerian, and a fellow psychologist witnessed some of the 'incidents' and corroborate her story. Recently. Some footage is from the new millenium. And these aren't the usual country bumpkins claiming they were probed by a giggling alien in a ship that looked a lot like cousin Bubba's trailer, after a night on the piss.
Some profoundly weird shit goes on in Nome... On my list of places I NEVER want to go on holiday, Nome is just below India.
Not gonna give any spoilers, just the classifications:
Encounters of the first kind: Sighting of a UFO
Second kind: You have supporting evidence (like photos, crop circles, etc.)
Third kind: Direct contact with the occupants of the UFO
Fourth kind: Abduction (and possible colonoscopy. WTF? Are all intelligent aliens zoological proctologists or are stool samples popular collectibles amongst space faring species?)
Of course, the government denies any little grey dudes make (or collect) shit in Nome, but in the last 10 years, the FBI has visited Nome over 2000 times, but the next closest visitation figure in an Alaskan town, by the FBI, is only 350-odd.
The stats they give on disappearances in Nome are off the chart. Odd for a town you can't even walk out of...
I recommend the movie, not from an entertainment perspective (the cutting from old, real footage, to the studio recreations can get a bit annoying, but it lends significant credence to the 'claims' this poor woman makes. Even in the final interview, this is a woman that is haunted... she even looks like the cheese is sliding off her cracker. You can see it in her eyes.
And she got put through a world of crap for going public.
8/10
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi... something like that.
There's a little town in Alaska (okay, there are a lot of little towns in Alaska (I think groups of people huddle together to try ward off hypothermia and other less pleasant stuff), but this one is special) called Nome (not the little dudes with the red hat from L4D2, Stu... that's a Gnome). You cannot access Nome by road. You have to fly in. That fact, I believe, has some significance.
Nome is full of whackjobs.... loads and loads of sleep disorders.
Dr. Abigail Tyler is the town shrink, and she is treating a lot of these whackjobs.
(Dr. Tyler is played by Mila Jovovich, but unfortunately she doesn't wear any of the Resident Evil costumes.)
Turns out, they all have pretty much the same problem... waking up at around 0230, seeing weird stuff (one specific owl, mainly). She tries to get to the bottom (*snigger*... you'll get it later) of the problem through hypnosis. That's when shit goes pear-shaped. Some things, people are probably better off not remembering. Especially in Nome.
What is rather disturbing about this movie, is that it's based on fact, and supported by genuine audio and video footage from the case files of the real Abigail Tyler (and some police dash-cams, too), and an interview she gave to a university in the US.
Not the usual grainy, "What the hell was that?" footage, either.
A university luinguist/historian, specialising in Sumerian, and a fellow psychologist witnessed some of the 'incidents' and corroborate her story. Recently. Some footage is from the new millenium. And these aren't the usual country bumpkins claiming they were probed by a giggling alien in a ship that looked a lot like cousin Bubba's trailer, after a night on the piss.
Some profoundly weird shit goes on in Nome... On my list of places I NEVER want to go on holiday, Nome is just below India.
Not gonna give any spoilers, just the classifications:
Encounters of the first kind: Sighting of a UFO
Second kind: You have supporting evidence (like photos, crop circles, etc.)
Third kind: Direct contact with the occupants of the UFO
Fourth kind: Abduction (and possible colonoscopy. WTF? Are all intelligent aliens zoological proctologists or are stool samples popular collectibles amongst space faring species?)
Of course, the government denies any little grey dudes make (or collect) shit in Nome, but in the last 10 years, the FBI has visited Nome over 2000 times, but the next closest visitation figure in an Alaskan town, by the FBI, is only 350-odd.
The stats they give on disappearances in Nome are off the chart. Odd for a town you can't even walk out of...
I recommend the movie, not from an entertainment perspective (the cutting from old, real footage, to the studio recreations can get a bit annoying, but it lends significant credence to the 'claims' this poor woman makes. Even in the final interview, this is a woman that is haunted... she even looks like the cheese is sliding off her cracker. You can see it in her eyes.
And she got put through a world of crap for going public.
8/10