In the University of Oregon, student Holly King is awarded with her research about the fate of nine Russian hikers known as The Dyatlov Pass Incident, who mysteriously died in the Ural Mountains in Russia in 1959.
She decides to make a documentary following the steps of Dyatlov and his team and she invites filmmaker Jenson Day, audio technician Denise Evers; and experienced guides JP Hauser Jr. And Andy Thatcher.
They travel to Russia expecting to find the truth about the unsolved mystery; but they find something else instead......
Right, there are three reasons why I wanted to see this. Harlin has made some really amazing films in his hey day, I love Found Footage, and it has Gemma Atkinson in it. Alright, make that four reasons.
But it's a case of another wonderful concept, let down by a really dull and over complicated third act.
Snow can be very spooky, and the true story about the actual case is pretty spooky as well, so this had all the makings of being a winner. But no, they have to really over complicate things with adding a Time Machine bubble thing toward the end and those pesky German world war 2 soldiers and their experiments.
This is not what this film needed, and up until the discovery of a door in the middle of the mountains, it's pretty spooky, thanks to the stories and the snow laden setting the film has.
It could have had the actual original hikers haunting the pass, which could have made the whole film a lot more eerie, but no, it ends up being a convoluted mess.
If you want to see Harlin do snow, see Cliffhanger, that's amazing. This really isn't.
She decides to make a documentary following the steps of Dyatlov and his team and she invites filmmaker Jenson Day, audio technician Denise Evers; and experienced guides JP Hauser Jr. And Andy Thatcher.
They travel to Russia expecting to find the truth about the unsolved mystery; but they find something else instead......
Right, there are three reasons why I wanted to see this. Harlin has made some really amazing films in his hey day, I love Found Footage, and it has Gemma Atkinson in it. Alright, make that four reasons.
But it's a case of another wonderful concept, let down by a really dull and over complicated third act.
Snow can be very spooky, and the true story about the actual case is pretty spooky as well, so this had all the makings of being a winner. But no, they have to really over complicate things with adding a Time Machine bubble thing toward the end and those pesky German world war 2 soldiers and their experiments.
This is not what this film needed, and up until the discovery of a door in the middle of the mountains, it's pretty spooky, thanks to the stories and the snow laden setting the film has.
It could have had the actual original hikers haunting the pass, which could have made the whole film a lot more eerie, but no, it ends up being a convoluted mess.
If you want to see Harlin do snow, see Cliffhanger, that's amazing. This really isn't.