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The movie was advertised, and is strictly enforced throughout the movie itself, as a sort-of docudrama to be based on real case studies and to use actual real-life footage. [[BasedOnAGreatBigLie However the claims are at best questionable, any attempts to corroborate the events on the movie are met with dead ends or bogus websites.]]
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The movie was advertised, and is strictly enforced throughout the movie itself, as a sort-of docudrama to be based on real case studies and to use actual real-life footage. [[BasedOnAGreatBigLie However However, the claims are at best questionable, any attempts to corroborate the events on the movie are met with dead ends or bogus websites.]]
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* AdultFear: [[spoiler: Having your child stolen from your home, and being absolutely powerless to stop it]].
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* MonochromeCasting: Nome in real life is over 50% indigenous, yet the entire cast of this film is white.
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* AlienFairFolk: The film implies that the aliens are AncientAstronauts who have been venerated as gods by civilizations of the past. However, they also [[AGodAmI seem to believe that they ARE gods]], and one possible interpretation is that they are actually nefarious supernatural entities who have been mistaken for aliens.
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* TheMountainsOfIllinois: The establishing shot of Nome seems to indicate that it's a landlocked town nestled between towering mountains and lush evergreen forests, when in reality Nome is surrounded on all sides by both arctic tundra and the ocean. It begs the question of whether or not the filmmakers had ever even seen a single picture of Nome before proceeding with production.
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* TheMountainsOfIllinois: The establishing shot of Nome seems to indicate that it's a landlocked town nestled between towering mountains and lush evergreen forests, when in reality Nome is surrounded on all sides by both arctic tundra and the ocean. It begs the question of whether or not the filmmakers had ever even seen a single picture of Nome before proceeding with production.
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* TheMountainsOfIllinois: Did the filmmakers ''ever'' even visit Nome, Alaska before shooting this movie?
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* CosmicHorrorStory: Hinted at, anyway.
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* CosmicHorrorStory: Hinted at, anyway.The movie definitely plays out like a traditional Lovecraftian horror story; everyone is being antagonized by an indescribable and unseen alien presence, the events that play out drive people to act extremely because they're unable to rationalize or cope with the truth of things, there's a looming sense of darkness and hopelessness throughout the film and it all even ends on a dismal and ominous note.
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* BodyHorror: An effect of Abigail's [[spoiler: last attempt to contact the aliens]]. Her spine is snapped like a toothpick and when we see her in the present we see that her eyes look as though they've enlarged to an unsettling degree and she looks like a chemo patient. It's also shattered her mental state. At the first moment that the interviewer questions what all happened she instantly breaks down into tears and completely loses coherency.
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* BodyHorror: An effect of Abigail's [[spoiler: last attempt to contact the aliens]]. Her spine is snapped like a toothpick and when we see her in the present we see that her eyes look as though they've enlarged to an unsettling degree and she looks like a chemo patient. It's also shattered her mental state. At the first moment that the interviewer questions what all happened she instantly breaks down into tears and completely loses coherency. Scott undergoes a similar situation the last time Abigail hypnotizes him, except unlike Abigail who's confined to a wheelchair, Scott is completely paralyzed from the neck down.
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* NothingIsScarier: The "documented" footage becomes scrambled whenever the aliens appear.
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* NothingIsScarier: The "documented" footage becomes scrambled whenever the aliens appear.appear so you never see what they truly look like. The closest we can to seeing them is very brief moments of vague, shadowy silhouettes coming into the room.
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* AgentScully: Dr. Abigail's friend and colleague Abel is initially entirely skeptical of the the possibility that aliens are involved with what's happening in Nome, and even tries to rationalize it. However as soon as he himself witnesses what happens to Scott, he too starts believing something is going on. He sadly reverts back to his old self after Abigail's hypnosis, though it's possible that if what happened did indeed happen, the aliens could have wiped his memory of the event.
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* InfantImmortality: [[spoiler: Partial aversion. Ashley is taken away by the aliens and is never found]].
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* InfantImmortality: ImprobableInfantSurvival: [[spoiler: Partial aversion.subversion. Ashley is taken away by the aliens and is never found]].
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** The title references the same classification of alien encounters as popularized in ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind''.
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''The Fourth Kind'' is a 2009 science fiction/thriller/horror movie starring Creator/MillaJovovich.
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''The Fourth Kind'' is a 2009 science fiction/thriller/horror movie starring Creator/MillaJovovich.
Creator/MillaJovovich, Creator/EliasKoteas, and Creator/WillPatton.
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* MythologyGag: Memories of alien abductions being replaced by memories of an owl could be a ShoutOut to the fact that many alleged alien sightings could be explained by sightings of large owls.
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* ShownTheirWork: Downplayed. For all the indications that the movie was BasedOnAGreatBigLie, the movie has at least one detail that's related to real-life alleged alien sightings: Memories of alien abductions being replaced by memories of an owl reference the fact that many alleged alien sightings have been argued that could be explained by sightings of large owls.
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* BasedOnAGreatBigLie: The movie attempted to present itself as if the movie was based on some RealLife events of alien abductions. As it turned out, that whole premise [[https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-fourth-kind-is-a-hoax-5397359 was a giant hoax to begin with.]]
** The movie ''was'' loosely based on a rash of disappearances that occurred in Nome, Alaska and the surrounding area, but it turned out most of them had just gotten lost and died of exposure because they were drunk.
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* BasedOnAGreatBigLie: The movie attempted to present itself as if the movie was based on some RealLife events of alien abductions. As it turned out, that whole premise [[https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-fourth-kind-is-a-hoax-5397359 was a giant hoax to begin with.]]
**]] The movie ''was'' loosely based on a rash of disappearances that occurred in Nome, Alaska and the surrounding area, but it turned out most of them had just gotten lost and died of exposure because they were drunk.
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* GoMadFromTheRevelation: [[spoiler: Tommy goes off the deep end when he finds out that he was abducted by aliens]].
* InfantImmortality: [[spoiler: Partial aversion. Ashley is taken away by the aliens and is never found]].
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* BasedOnAGreatBigLie: The movie attempted to present itself as if the movie was based on some RealLife events of alien abductions. As it turned out, that whole premise [[https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-fourth-kind-is-a-hoax-5397359 was a giant hoax to begin with.]]
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* BodyHorror: An effect of Tyler's [[spoiler: last attempt to contact the aliens]]. Her spine is snapped like a toothpick and when we see her in the present we see that her eyes look as though they've enlarged to an unsettling degree and she looks like a chemo patient. It's also shattered her mental state. At the first moment that the interviewer questions what all happened she instantly breaks down into tears and completely loses coherency.
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** As it turns out, [[spoiler:Will Taylor shot himself in the head. Abbey invented the murder as a way of dealing with it.]]
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* FauxDocumentary[=/=]RomanAClef: The movie is presented as a docu-drama of supposedly RealLife events that occurred in Nome, Alaska in October 2000, loaded with [[CaptainErsatz Captain Ersatzes]] of "real" people.
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* FromBadToWorse: The more Tyler pushes in her investigation, the more violent the retaliation seems to be. [[spoiler: Taken to it's most audacious conclusion in the end with the aliens taking Tyler's daughter and utterly breaking Tyler in body and mind out of pure spite.]]
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* FromBadToWorse: The more Tyler Abigail pushes in her investigation, the more violent the retaliation seems to be. [[spoiler: Taken to it's most audacious conclusion in the end with the aliens taking Tyler's daughter and utterly breaking Tyler Abigail in body and mind out of pure spite.]]
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*AliensSpeakingEnglish: Played with. The aliens speak ancient Sumerian, but this is justified by them being AncientAstronauts.
* AncientAstronauts: This is stated to be the reason why the aliens speak Sumerian. Some alleged mentions of aliens and their technology in ancient Sumerian texts are also mentioned.
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