There were tons of things I might’ve written a word or two about this week; from the news or the papers. But then I went to the cinema to watch a certain film yesterday; and, frankly, nothing else in the world is more significant to me right now as a subject matter. You probably haven’t seen it yet, and most of you probably aren’t even intending to see it; but, to my mind, ‘Fourth Kind’ is not only the most important film of this year, but one of the most important releases of all time. You MUST watch this film…

The film, starring the beautiful Mila Jovovich, is a mixture of dramatisation and real-life video and audio recordings. The effect of this is more compelling than anything I’ve seen in a long time. I don’t want to give the whole thing away, so I won’t go into all the details here, but the (true) story is about a Professor Abigail Tyler; a proffessional psychiatrist who discovers that she, along with a number of her patients, is being tormented and abducted by anomalous/alien/demonic entities in her sleep.

This movie is not about an idea or a theory or a claim; it is about the EVIDENCE. And the evidence on-film here is beyond contention; real-life video footage of patients breaking down under hypnosis; real-life video footage of Mrs Tyler, as well as one of her patients, being possessed, forcibly levitated and having NON-HUMAN INTELLIGENCES speak through them; real-life audio recordings of NON-HUMAN ENTITIES speaking in another language; and real-life video footage of one of the patients shooting dead his wife and children before shooting himself.

The real-life footage in the film is extremely disturbing and upsetting. It will shake you; but that, I believe, is a necessary effect in order to make people take the matter seriously and to have people realise that these are/were real people, with real lives, and that these were real experiences. That’s why this movie is so powerful – had it been entirely acting and dramatic interpretation of the story, the effect would be lost; it’d be just another supernatural thriller. But the intercutting of real material serves to maintain the reminder that these aren’t fictional events.

This woman is confined to a wheelchair and is mentally unstable – on account of her experiences. She suffered a broken neck from her experience. Her husband shot himself. One of her patients murdered his entire family and then killed himself. Another of her patients had his spine severed and neck snapped and was crippled for life. Her blind, seven-year old daughter (who she maintains was abducted by the alien entities) has been missing for almost a decade, without trace. Multitudes of people WITNESSED the UFO that she claims took her daughter (audio recordings of all of these eye-witness accounts are included in the film, during the end titles). A police officer witnessed the UFO above their very house at the very moment the girl went missing. This is not some mad conspiracy theorist in the wildnerness, or some attention seeking charlatan trying to sell a story.

I have personally been well-versed in the subjects of UFOs, alien abduction claims, and the paranormal in general, for a long time, and I’ve had the sh*t scared out of me a few times before from things I’ve seen or read – but NOTHING has hit me as hard as the footage in this move has. If the scenario depicted in this documentary/film is genuine – and you WILL leave the cinema overwhelmingly convinced that it IS – then it is the most significant, most important cinema release of my lifetime. For, what it does is to expose to a broader audience a horrifying, profound, and remarkably widespread phenomena that has largely been limited to the fringes of public consciousness. People – and the mainstream media – still sneer at, or even laugh at, people claiming to suffer supernatural torments and afflictions, and more often than not treat the subject as a joke, or as something unworthy of proper coverage. It is admittedly unlikely that this film will change that; but if it doesn’t make a big impact in that direction, that in itself only exposes the imbalance and injustice of the mainstream.

I have always wondered why (aside from the classic theory of a mass cover-up) why the mainstream media shies away from this area, given that it is indisputably an issue important to a great many people (and victims), and given that the various implications of the subject are of such importance to humanity, to society, to religion, to science, and to the world itself. If anyone watches this film without being disturbed, emotionally affected, and – most of all – convinced that there is something very, very important and very serious going on outside of the radar of common knowledge, then frankly there is something wrong with you as a human being.

It’s probably unlikely that ‘Fourth Kind’ will be a major commercial success (even with Mila Jovovic in it); but I doubt that was the primary reason it was made. This film is not entertainment. It doesn’t have special effects or massive stars or anything of the sort. It does, however, have a genuinely powerful emotional content, and it does convey a story that has enormous implications for the entire human race, this world, and both the past and the future.

On a technical level, the film’s combination of dramatisation and real-life footage/recordings (which includes a lot of split-screen editing) is very effectively done and works well. The movie is never overwrought, it never tries to be clever. This really isn’t about clever tricks or editing. It isn’t glossy, it isn’t Hollywood. The direction and production is very understated. The most striking parts of the film are not in the dramatised reconstructions but in the real-world footage. Although, for the record, Mila Jovovic (the most criminally underrated actress of the passed fifteen years) really does provide a first-class performance here.

However, the genuinely compelling figure in this whole thing is Abigail Tyler herself, during the real footage of her being interviewed. She looks like the most tortured, haunted and afflicted woman you’ll ever have seen in your life.

So please do go and see this movie. Not for entertainment, and not even to be scared. But for the effect it might have on your thoughts and your mind. And because the woman (and her lost family) whose experiences are depicted in this movie deserve to have as many people as possbile be aware of what may ‘have been through.

And if the whole thing IS fake, as some people are saying, at the very least it is grounded in real life stories and claims, of  which there has been many over the passed decades…