However, The Fourth Kind looked like a very scary movie as well and Dean and I couldn't resist but go and watch this movie over the weekend. Sorry Cassandra, one more time but I promise you the next movie will be 2012, fo sho!!!
So yesterday we were in the Hollywood area and decided to see it at the H&H (Hollywood & Highland, people get with it!).
The little we had seen in the previews was just a few people under hypnosis who saw something so unbelievably scary that their faces were enough to inspire terror in the viewers. That much was true, it was terrifying just imagining what these patients were able to see under their hypnosis but the most scary part of this movie is that not only they were able to remember a certain "white owl" overlooking at them from their bedroom windows, but also remembering something so unspeakable and unbelievable that they could not express it in words.
The Fourth Kind is based on true events that happened in a small town of Nome, Alaska about a study by Dr. Abbey Tyler, whose patients had a slepping disorder that it was a little bit out of the ordinary. A few of her patients that came to see her described a similar pattern of their dreams (or more like horrifying nightmares) that began to haunt them to the extreme that they became very deprived of sleep and a sense of emptiness and depression that led to horrible consequences for a couple of tortured patients.
It happened that in the middle of the night, Dr. Tyler got a call to go to her patient's house upon his own demand while the police had surrounded his home. The scene was nightmarish (and was even recorded on a police car video camera): her patient had been so perturbed by what he had seen in his session, under hypnosis that he could not take it anymore and took a gun to his wife's head, pulled the trigger on her, his kids and then himself. The most annoying part of this is that the movie splits into different angles, one is the reenactment of the events to the actual footage from the police car, it was a bit distracting to be honest, to the point where it was kind of pointless to have actors reenact these scenes when it was clear that you really wanted to see the real footage, as poor and grainy they may seem but they were more powerful and easier to follow than having 2 sets of screens doing the same situation in "stereo".
Most disturbing was the footage of Dr. Tyler's patients during their hypnosis. Apparently, these patients were encountering a very powerful being while under hypnosis that they could not visualize nor explain when they were awake until one patient who commited the homicide-suicide it's when another patient decided to go on a longer hypnosis in order to go to the bottom of this mystery. This footage was the most incredible footage that could have been captured of a person levitating off the bed while yelling to the top of his lungs, such a howling that the scream itself was so terrifying that seeing the being was not the scariest part of this movie.
Even though the camera captured the phenomenom for a fragment of a second, it was a fragment of a second that was very frightening and raw in its nature, enough to send chills down my spine, and while the rest of the footage was just yelling and screaming, and later just static it was just more frightening than having watched the whole episode in clear HD quality. But it wasn't just her patient's voice what we could hear but there was also another voice that invaded the room, a voice that was almost undistinguisable and inaudible. The session was so powerful and so estrenous that left the patient paralized and physically disabled.
When the town sheriff heard about this, his first instict was to arrest Dr. Tyler for performing the hypnosis and affecting her patients so much that left one dead and the other one paralized. However, Dr. Tyler herself had recorded her own voice a couple of nights before while dictating her own findings on her patients, then falling asleep. The recording played back normally as she had remembered until she dozed off and then we hear the door open and a being had come into the room and started speaking to Dr. Tyler while she was yelling hysterically. The voice, however, was in a different tongue, an ancient language that was not recognizable, not even in Latin. It took an expert in linguistics to figure out that this language that was spoken on her tape and even in the video of her patient levitating was in an ancient tongue not used since ancient civilization, probably since the Egyptians' time way before Christ.
The tension kept building, and the inexplicable phenomenom was too hard to decipher. The town sheriff decided to leave a cop in charge of looking over Dr. Tyler's home that night. The next scene occurs around 3:30 at night when a large UFO comes on top of the home and all we hear is the voice of the policeman asking for help, he sees that there's an abduction taking place and calls out for help. When the rest of the police arrive and they enter the house, Dr. Tyler is found yelling in one of her rooms. She says that her daughter has been abducted. And even though there was a policeman as a witness, the sheriff decides to take her son away as well since she seems to be out of her mind.
In the next scene where we see the real Dr. Tyler conducting an interview for Chapman University, we look into a woman's eyes who has been so tormented and has suffered so much that it's no wonder that she looks as she has lost her mind. What would you do if you lost your own daughter but nobody would believe in how this happened? When I see Dr. Tyler, I see a woman that is fighting from going insane, a woman that's lost all hope. And what we see in her own hypnosis will probably stick in my mind for a very long time...
She wants to confront this being, to find out how she can recover her own child and so she accepts to go under hypnosis, she describes seeing an owl as well, but then quickly realizes it's not just an owl but a being who comes into her bedroom and drags her into an examining table where horrible experiments are performed on her body. While her body levitates, she screams at the being: Who are you? What do you want from me? Give me back my daughter!!!! To which the being replies (in an ancient tongue): I Am God, the Child ramains with me... Forever...
Later in the interview when asked the question whether Dr. Tyler believed if this being was God himself, she replies that no God will inspire such emptiness into somebody, this being could not be God. As the interview finishes, the camera begins to span out the studio set over at Chapman University to discover Dr. Tyler was speaking from a wheelchair. She had been left paralized and confined to a wheelchair herself after that horrible scene towards the end of the movie.
And I happened to agree with Dr. Tyler's statement about the alien not being God. If this being was God, why would he inspire so much fear, so much pain, so much punishment for anyone to go through? The aliens probably think that we're so stupid that we would believe that these beings are superior than us? I think that they probably take us for an idiotic civilization.
In discussing the movie with Dean there were many theories about the aliens and many of our own beliefs on the matter: Are aliens here on Earth? Did aliens help the Egyptians build the amazing piramids, the Incas and Mayans with their ancient empires? Are alies among us now? What do they want from us?
