"The Fourth Kind" - perhaps the most realistic horror movie ever, since it's based on true events... or is it?

The Fourth Kind is a horror film supposedly based on actual case studies. It takes place in Nome, Alaska, where me meet Dr. Abigail Tyler (Milla Jovovich, Resident Evil, Zoolander, A Perfect Getaway), a psychologist whose husband recently died. She and some of her clients, namely Scott Stracinsky (Enzo Cilenti) and Tommy (Corey Johnson, The Bourne Ultimatum, Saving Private Ryan, The Mummy, Hellboy) report some strange disturbances, some of which involve a strange-looking owl. Sometime later, her daughter, Ashley Tyler (Mia McKenna Bruce, EastEnders) has been seemingly kidnapped! Abigail believes that she saw her being abducted by strange beings, but will just anyone believe her story?

Also staring in this film is Elias Koteas (The Haunting in Connecticut, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles I and III, and the upcoming Shutter Island) as Dr. Abel Campos (alias, the real doctor didn't want his real name in this film), Abigail's shrink.

Okay, forget what I said about Paranormal Activity (I think I said something inaccurate about it, as a comment suggests), this is the most realistic horror film I've ever seen. Some of the original footage of Abigail Tyler is used, being played next to footage of Milla Jovovich. (At the beginning of the film, Milla says that it is real, and to believe what you want.) However, I don't think that was the best way to go about it, they should have just used the original footage and used Milla Jovovich to fill in the gaps. Words onscreen note when the audio is real. I thought the film was interesting, but I'm not sure if all of it was real. Parts of it actually made me cry - for instance, when Abigail Tyler reports her lost daughter, she loses custody of her son, which was pretty much the last thing she needed at that time. Any more discussion would result in spoilers.

The film scored a PG-13, and I feel it deserved it. As typical in a horror film, violence is most prominent: her husband was stabbed to death (we don't see the actual stabbing, but we see blood). In one of the audio samples (claimed to be real), we hear gunshots and a woman screaming and crying, later learning that the gunshots came from the woman's husband. There is a lot of twitching and screaming in hypnosis caused by Dr. Abel Campos, and while not everything is explained, it's implied she is witnessing something violent. As for sexuality... well, it is said that her husband was stabbed during sex (we don't even see any nudity though). There are a few s-words, said in anger, frustration, and utter grief. There is only one scene with wine.

If you like horror movies where monsters and demons pop out of every corner, this isn't for you. It's played like a documentary, so think about that before you go see it. And stay tuned during the closing credits for some other peoples' claims of supernatural sightings.