Devil's Pass (2013)

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.

Fmovies: As a movie, especially one from the category of wobbly shaky camera films, it is not that bad. It's a cliché, from the start to the end, but you can't really blame it for not being the first to do what it does. I also know nothing about the Dyatlov incident and I suspect the movie has little to do with it, other than the name.

Weirdly enough, the name was what drew me to the film and I have no idea why someone would rename it blandly "Devil's Pass", which has absolutely nothing to do with the plot and is probably one of many movies to be thus named.

Anyway, the film: young maniacally happy Americans go to investigate, equipped with apparently a new type of recording device that needs no recharging, since it keeps going for days. They get there, die from various reasons which border from implausible to funny, then end in a kind of Twilight Zone way, with lots of bad CGI.

The idea wasn't really bad, either, just the execution. All in all, it was a classic hand held camera horror, without being scary, though. I liked the sci-fi twist to it all, but not the execution (or the characters, or the actors). I liked that they really went to a place where people actually spoke Russian, not mangled the language horribly in the hope that no viewer actually speaks it.

I can't rate it average. It had too many plot holes, bad cgi, etc. But it was close.

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.

Devil's Pass fmovies. This is one of the best 'horror' movies I have seen in a long while, the tension building was great. Dropping in creepy tips one at a time really kept my interest building and they didn't make the awful mistake of having all sorts of absurd sh#t hit the fan all at once.

I liked the time portal twist, it added something fresh to the ending and actually had an ending rather than just leaving everything dangling in the air... I do have some issues with it which I won't drone on about here, at the end of the day, it's a great watch and I loved it! Definitely check it out if you're looking for something that's not as predictable as most drivel these days and a hits the happy medium of tension building.

The Dyatlov Pass Incident is unsolved to this time, although most researchers agree that the group was killed because they saw something they were not allowed to see or entered a territory they were not supposed to enter. And it doesn't look like anyone will know what happened. This is very sad.

The movie is not that much about the incident though. It's a good horror which keeps your attention and makes you scared. The ending is also pretty impressing. The sightings of the nature are breathtaking indeed.

I was afraid the movie would insult the memory of the members of Dyatlov group, but thankfully it was not the case. Although they made some factual errors narrating the story.

So if you like horrors you are going to like the movie.

I did not expect much, but I was good surprised by the last part of the movie. Starting from detailed documentary of suspicious mystery the story become more and more thrilling with every development. Good balance between storyline and rhythm of the movie. Medium part should be the end for most Hollywood movies without any wonder, but that was not the finish line. Unfortunately low budget shooting at the end but excellent shift of time and lovely transformation of principal characters that turns fantasy to science fiction. Underestimated IMDb rates probably because people don't recognize Russia and military style, but my own eyes of witness recognize it as a true footage. Recommended for people with open mind and writers as a good example of drama development.