The Fourth Kind: entertaining if you can suspend disbelief

Against my initial best judgment, a friend of mine convinced me to go see The Fourth Kind. I had very low expectations, and although I wasn't blown away by the movie, I enjoyed it more than I thought I would.



Basically, the movie is about a female therapist in Nome, Alaska named Abigail Tyler, whose husband is killed right in front of her but she can't explain how. The movie uses some case study recordings and video, some with patients, some police footage, and then it has the dramatized version sometimes alongside it, sometimes just in place of scenes where they don't have footage. Abigail starts hypnotizing her patients and releasing their subconscious memories of encounters with aliens. This basically causes people to kill their families and themselves, presumably to escape the torture that awaits them if/when they are abducted.

There is just so much room for these people to either a) actually be mentally deranged--and they have these visions of being abducted by aliens as a coping mechanism for their unfathomable feelings of depression--all while underneath that layer of consciousness that the hypnosis is able to trigger, there is a whole new layer that is just too painful for them to access ....or b) coordinate with each other to make all these therapy sessions up, etc.

If all these separate cases of alien contact were happening all over the place, why don't we hear about it from other countries? And how could the government cover it all up so well?

I think someone should make a movie about a conspiracy theory related to this whole aliens idea. But one where this whole alien sighting underground ring of people are exposed as being con artists. Maybe it's already been done. Has it? I'm sure it has.