Devil's Pass

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This is not the best Renny Harlin can do, that's for sure. Being a fan of both movies and outdoors, I expected "The Dyatlov Pass Incident" to be a movie about the Dyatlov Pass incident. I was wrong, of course. But even not considering this, the movie is sloppy and bland, notwithstanding a couple of "horror" scenes. Somewhere in the middle, the whole story falls apart entirely and what follows is just a series of most ridiculous plot twists that one can imagine. The plot is so illogical that at some point it's not even funny anymore. Throughout the whole movie, characters act like mindless creatures although they should be college students and at least two of them should be experienced backpackers. The only good thing probably was that Russians were actually speaking Russian, not some mindless gibberish. But this gets only 1 star for this movie.

I'm a big fan of the "found footage" subgenre, and what can be more important in a presumably "real" footage, than believable and natural reactions of the actors? It's a very important factor that makes us immersed into the action on screen. I remember I read that while filming Blair Witch they actually left actors roam in the woods on their own in order to get the most authentic reactions. However, actors in this flick have probably never heard about such thing. Their reactions were fake and unrealistic. Not for one second I was taking this movie seriously. At some moments I was even laughing my head off! Especially when American kids started to shout at unfriendly Russians in a faraway Russian town: "Cold War is over, we're friends now!" How can you take such line seriously? Do the filmmakers seriously consider that an average dweller of a faraway Russian town is concerned about Cold War and being friends with Americans? So, the acting in "Dee-yatlov's Pass" was horrendous. What about the story? It's based on a famous incident that really took place, where a group of Soviet students went hiking to the snow-covered mountains never to be seen alive again. It's one of the greatest mysteries of the XX century, and according to this movie the group didn't return because of... secret experiment. Of course! What else? From the point when American kids discover a secret base in the mountains I couldn't stop laughing. It got to a B movie level and below with mutants in the dark, and evil KGB trying to get rid of survivors. The twist ending was so shockingly obvious that I saw it coming a mile ahead. The only redeeming factor of this movie was probably how funny it was. If you want to gather friends to watch a "so bad it's good" movie, then "Dee-yatlov's Pass" is a way to go. For everyone else - stay away!

Greetings from Lithuania. "The Dyatlov Pass Incident" is nothing more than a true story + "The Blair Witch Project" + crap. The setting is good, i loved snowy Russian mountains. The actor also did a very good job, they are in this place and they are playing it straight, no one is acting out "oh we are in a found footage film" - they are there, USA + Russian production also feels kind a fresh, especially in these kind a movies. Sure, it's not a new The Blair Witch Project" movie, it doesn't come close to it. Overall, if you are looking for some new "found footage" movie, this one not that bad at all.

The situation here closely resembles that of "The Blair Witch Project": a group of twentysomething documentarians sets out into the wilderness to solve a possibly supernatural mystery, unknown forces cause them to lose their bearings, things go terribly wrong, someone or something is chasing them, there's a spooky abandoned building, and we're supposedly seeing these events through "found footage" from the documentarians' video camera. We even get a night-vision recording of the terrified female protagonist in hiding, a moment clearly borrowed from the most famous shot in "Blair Witch." That said, "Dyatlov" is definitely the better movie; it helps a lot to have professional actors, a competent (if not brilliant) professional script, a spectacular mountain setting, and several million bucks to spend on better production values. Compared to the anticlimax of "Blair Witch," the final sequences are creepy and mostly effective. Overall, I'm rating "Dyatlov" a bit above average -- not a horror movie for the ages, but not the weirdly over-hyped home movie that was "Blair Witch."

This was the worst film I have ever seen in my entire life. This was the worst film I have ever seen in my entire life. This was the worst film I have ever seen in my entire life. This was the worst film I have ever seen in my entire life. This was the worst film I have ever seen in my entire life. This was the worst film I have ever seen in my entire life. This was the worst film I have ever seen in my entire life. This was the worst film I have ever seen in my entire life. This was the worst film I have ever seen in my entire life. This was the worst film I have ever seen in my entire life. This was the worst film I have ever seen in my entire life. There. Ten lines.

i read about this incident and got interested in knowing more about it, So, i decided to watch this movie and god knows how i miss that lost hour of my life. However, the movie even having a very solid Plot and a history behind it, failed to deliver on that,miserably. Start of the movie, though builds a little interest and then suddenly the director takes cue from Blair witch , World war z,Apocalypse now, and many more and ends up making one spoiled broth. The climax is so pathetic, that you actually prefer going out of theater. it was a boorish attempt,where the director saved the cost of cast,location,script and screenplay. Not good even for a lazy Sunday afternoon. Avoid at all costs.

The Dyatlov Pass Incident has some good surprises in it. First of it all, it has some good scaries. In a time where found footage movies are over satured, the director made a really good effort in this. Its not excellent, don't get me wrong. It passes pretty far from being original but its a solid fun for a Saturday night. The movie is a slow burn but the end is really good. The plot slowly start to make sense and when you finally discover whats really going on, you find yourself surprised with such a good plot in a horror movie. Secondly, its a kind a blair witch project in structure and style and this is not a bad thing, to me at least, cause blair witch is my favorite horror movie ever and in the end it looks like a tribute to me. Lastly, if you like Blair witch but the end was lame to you, get this movie because its pretty much blair witch less scary but with better plot.