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Friday, August 14, 2009 at 7:09PM Milla Jovovich in Whacked-Out 'Fourth Kind' Trailer
Wow, this is a pretty freaky trailer. The title The Fourth Kind begins to make sense if you remember a movie that used in its title the phrase Third Kind about 30 years ago. And it feels like the characters experience a similar kind of psychological meltdown, although in The Fourth Kind there's a much, much greater sense of dread about it all. You don't want to get know whatever's behind these encounters.

The film stars Milla Jovovich, who appears as herself in the film's trailer to provide a kind of disclaimer about what you are about to see. There are more missing persons per capita in Alaska than just about anywhere in the civilized world: In 2007, the disappearance rate was four people in a thousand. That might not seem like much, but "The Alaskan Bermuda Triangle" claims twice as many missing persons as the national average.
Some of those, of course, are due to the extreme weather, but that doesn't make much of a thriller, with apologies to Into the Wild. So check out the trailer; I think it's quite effective. Then again, the trailer for White Noise got me really interested in that supernatural phenome-non-event, so we'll tread lightly.
The Fourth Kind has earned a PG-13 rating, so Alaskans must never swear when this kind of thing happens to them. I do kind of wish they'd go with the R here, but maybe they can pull it off. The movie comes out on November 9th.



Reader Comments (4)
That freaked me right out... wow.
Do I just watch to much SciFi for that to feel freaky at all?
Its not the film but the archive footage that did it for me...
There is so much that we don't know. I hope she one day meets her daughter again. According to God we have guardian angels where are they when people dissappear?