From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <post.nul>
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:57:00 -0500
Archived: Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:57:00 -0500
Subject: Budd Hopkins Reviews Fourth Kind




Source: Budd Hopkins' Intruders Foundation

http://www.intrudersfoundation.org/Forth_Kind.html

November 6, 2009


The Fourth Kind
A Movie To Avoid

By Budd  Hopkins

On Tuesday, Nov. 3, as I sat in a theater being bombarded with
soundtrack noise - screams =96 many screams =96 and melodramatic,
over-the-top music, I was watching the new, self-described UFO
abuction film, The Fourth Kind, and wondering how the
screenwriters could get so many things wrong.Ostensibly set in
Nome, Alaska =96 which, by the way, looks ravishingly pretty in
the film=92s many elaborate aerial views - the plot is focused on
a therapist and her clients who have apparently suffered UFO
abductions, and at least one of these =93abductees,=94 the
therapist=92s little daughter, seems to have been taken for good.
The film moves along, more or less propelled by fake hypnosis
sessions in which virtually every subject screams bloody murder.
One man, grotesquely unhinged by what he remembers during one
such session, actually commits murder, blowing away his innocent
wife, his two children and himself.  And in this and every other
case shown in the movie, apart from an owl at the window no one
has previously remembered anything about his or her abduction
experiences until hypnosis finally unlocks the ghastly,
unbearable truth and the screaming starts. 

Underlying all of this fictional, never before reported malarky,
the film=92s pseudo-documentary style strains to convince us that
everything depicted is =93supported by actual case material.=94Well,
after thirty-three years of working with hundreds upon hundreds
people reporting UFO abduction experiences, I can say, first,
that in no case has anyone ever reported the permanent
disappearance of a friend, a family member or anyone even
vaguely connected with my huge pool of subjects.  The sort of
final, =93taken-by-the-aliens disappearance=94 that the film
suggests simply doesn=92t happen - though, unfortunately, this
tragic turn in the screenplay could disturb many uninformed
people in a real-world audience.

Second, the hyper-emotional reactions mimed by the actors are
almost non-existent in competently conducted hypnosis sessions.
I=92ve observed actual screams in perhaps six or seven of the
nearly two thousand hypnosis sessions I=92ve been present for, or
carried out myself, over three decades, and have never seen the
kind of mindless terror, vomiting and crashing about  that the
movie graphically, and shamelessly, forces upon the audience.

In a third bizarre invention, the screenwriters have entangled
an ancient Sumerian language with the abduction phenomenon, so
in this movie the aliens apparently speak Sumerian.  Why is
that, especially when communication in abduction experiences is
almost inevitably telepathic?  Is it because this tasty bit of
fiction allows the camera to pan over a museum full of scary-
looking ancient artifacts?

I could go on and on with the issues of fact, taste and simple
plotting that I have with this movie, but I haven=92t the heart or
the patience to do so.  The bottom line is this: save your
$12.50 or whatever a ticket costs at your local theater, and if
you should suspect that you may have had an abduction
experience, absolutely stay away.Such a viewer could be deeply
unsettled by this noisy, fictional mishmash, which, as I=92ve
said, involves murder, gunfire and suicide, as well as seemingly
endless minutes of blurred, fake video imagery which the
filmmakers insist is =93real.=94  (Mercifully, no special-effects
aliens or UFOs are actually depicted.)

Despite the =93unbearable terrors=94 of hypnotic recall that this
movie claims to demonstrate, if a person should undergo hypnotic
exploration of partially recalled abduction experiences, that
individual will not pick up a pistol afterwards and shoot
somebody, none of her family members will be permanently
abducted, and he probably won=92t do very much helpless screaming.
Those things seem to happen only in certain kinds of lurid sci-
fi or horror movies, of which The Fourth Kind is an extremely
unfortunate mixture.


[Thanks to Frank Warren for the lead]



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