The First Trailer for 'The Fourth Kind'
Filed under: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Thrillers, Mystery & Suspense, Universal, Trailers and Clips
When Universal shuffled their slate last month and pushed The Wolf Man back to 2010, they filled its early November void with the alien abduction thriller, The Fourth Kind, and as such have wisely opted to attach their first trailer to District 9 (which I'm guessing must be some sort of Milla Jovovich biopic).Jovovich plays Dr. Abigail Tyler, a Nome, AK psychiatrist whose multiple patients are all spilling forth similarly cryptic stories of what would appear to be occurrences of bona fide alien abduction. (Anyone else picking up a Fire in the Sky vibe all of a sudden?)
Uni and Gold Circle appear to be taking the same angle that led their White Noise to a surprising $24 million opening weekend -- that angle of "some of this is totally maybe real." Seriously, here's that teaser for the sake of comparison. They even used the same font, and the this-is-a-movie-but-sorta-kinda-based-on-true-events framing device is not unlike that of Lionsgate and Gold Circle's own hokey The Haunting in Connecticut (opening weekend? $23 million).
Other films based on true events have managed to creep me out from time to time, I'll admit, but I've grown increasingly wary of marketing campaigns that can't help but rely on them. Will Patton and Connecticut's Elias Koteas do get my benefit of the doubt, and I'm pretty sure that Ms. Jovovich could sell me a flat tire with or without any true events to base her sales pitch on, so who knows.
The Fourth Kind opens on November 6th, and would dearly like to end up in that $23-24 million range; let's hope for their sake that the ads abduct a couple of us skeptics along the way to the box office.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
8-14-2009 @ 4:03PM
Eric said...
It's not based on true events. It's like the Blair Witch Project. They are telling you it's true. Even thought it's not. All "The real Interviews & Footage" is all BS they made it all up.
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8-14-2009 @ 5:56PM
stalinsays said...
I saw a screener of this about half a year ago. It isn't too bad, but yeh the Blair Witch comparisons are absolutely unavoidable.
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8-15-2009 @ 8:53AM
George said...
Oooh, what a sweet effort to cash in on the "alien abduction" thing. You gotta hand it to them.
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8-18-2009 @ 12:45AM
Easily Spooked said...
Real or not, it looks creepy as hell. Also, I did some research and saw a bunch of articles on Nome in fact being the missing person capital of Alaska.
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10-23-2009 @ 12:56AM
badvegan said...
the really bad part, which is observable by the comments of the reader above, is that the suposed psycology and news websites that people are reading are owned by universal studios. they have infiltrated even real sites. yes nome has some problems with people disapearing, but considering that our number one cause of death is drinking and freezing to death outside, one can put two and two together and figure out that when a favorite pastime of people is to get drunk and go wandering around in the woods (called rip and trip) that some poeple are going to get lost and never be heard from again.
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10-28-2009 @ 7:54PM
jilly said...
rup and trip? yikes.
i think this movie is going to open a lot of eyes and make people think differently about alien abduction. i don't know if it's based on one story or bits of a bunch of stories but i know a lot of people have experienced encounters like the stuff they talk about in this movie.
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