Review of The Dyatlov Pass Incident (2013) by Esai T — 09 Mar 2014

A group of five American youth, against better judgement, decide to visit a remote Russian mountain pass where 9 perished under mysterious circumstances 53 years earlier. Shot in a found footage style that due to the all too neat photography, and dull and/or hammy performances, fails to convince as "real", the film starts out by bringing up various cliched possibilities to explain strange events past and present - yetis, aliens, etc - before eventually going in a rather unexpected, if not downright preposterous direction.

Fortunately, after the one hour mark intensity makes a heart pounding appearance via the arrival of a avalanche, which is followed by some suspenseful scenes in an underground bunker, helping the film reach a very modest level of watchability.