Devil's Pass (2013)

	Also Known As: The Dyatlov Pass Incident
	Year of first release: 2013
	Director: Renny Harlin (Die Hard 2, Cliffhanger, Deep Blue Sea)
	Actors: Gemma Atkinson, Richard Reid, Matt Stokoe
	Country: USA, GB, RUS
	Genre: Thriller, Horror
	Conditions of visioning: 28.08.2013, CINEMA theater, MFFF2013
Synopsis: A group of students travel to the Oural mountains in Russia to shoot a documentary on the mysterious Dyatlov Pass Incident that occurred in 1959.
Review: I went to see this movie without knowing what it was about because it won the Titra price at the Neuchatel IFFF in July, and I didn't expect a found footage movie (we see the events via the documentary filmed by the students). The darkness and loneliness in those mountains help setting up a scary atmosphere, and you find youself often grabbing tightly the armrests of your seat. The intrigue is involving and the found footage style is well used. But in the end there is not much new compared to REC to which this movie has copied many succesful receipes: infrared vision, the monster's design, the "did you see that thing moving in a corner of the camera when the characters were not looking?". I would have put a higher rating because the movie is well done and scary, but originlity is missing: story, style and even characters.
Rating: 6 /10