Devil's pass/The Dyatlov Pass Incident (2013) Hey what's up guys. Today I'll show you a
horror film: "the Dyatlov Pass Incident, AKA, Devil's Pass"!
Spoilers ahead, watch out and take care! The film is based on a true story;it's
revealed that the Dyatlov Incident occurred in February 1959 on a Ural mountain range, located
in the territory of the Soviet Union. There, Nine hikers were found dead in the wilderness
of the Ural Mountains. The exact reasons for the deaths are unknown; but the Internet is full of
different theories. In the absence of a convincing explanation, Soviet investigators attributed the
deaths to "compelling natural forces," closing the case for lack of evidence of criminal
element involvement, and sealing off the incident site for three years. Therefore, people around
the world are still puzzled by this tragedy. The scene shifts to Holly, a psychology student
at the University of Oregon, who describes the event, and her intention to make a video
about this incident with her friend Cameraman. Their professor expects her students to make a
documentary, and wants them to put themselves in the shoes of the original hikers, to better
understand what really happened to them. The Cameraman doubts the official version of events,
which says that all nine hikers of the Dyatlov group died of pneumonia on the
same day. Therefore, they are motivated to find out the truth first. Holly elaborates on the
details of their trip to Russia, saying that they must fly from Oregon to Moscow, and then
to a nearby city before reaching the summit. Their final destination is a snowy mountain,
known as the "mountain of the dead," supposedly named “so” by the indigenous tribe, because of a
number of strange deaths and disappearances throughout history. Holly and the Cameraman
are joined by two experienced climbers, Andy and J P, as well as an audio engineer. all of these
five members are college students. Before heading out on the trip, the team trains on the local ski
slopes. After a few months of extensive training and study, they finally leave for Russia. The
scene suddenly cuts out, and we see a Russian news report about five missing Oregon students, who are
presumably our protagonists here in this film. A search by Russian officials turned up the
ruins of a campground, with personal items belonging to the students. Following that,
several experts explain the students' disappearance as the result of the Yeti or
extraterrestrial spaceships. On the other hand, the indigenous Tribe residents are interviewed,
and they have another hypothesis. They believe the disappearance was caused by a point, where two
worlds intersect and create a channel, allowing one to pass from one world to another in the
spirit world, something like a portal. According to the revelations of an unknown person, Russian
officials recovered the footage captured by the missing Oregon students, but refused to reveal
its contents to the public; so a group of hackers found and released the tape on the Internet.
A portion of the footage was shot in night vision mode, with a terrified Holly wailing in the dark,
while the Cameraman tries to console her. Here the scene cuts off with no explanation, so we return a
month earlier to uncover the mystery. The five students arrive in Russia, and travel by train
to the small town near their destination. Andy records with his phone the landscape,
and Holly's tattoo of angel wings behind her right ear. Andy and J P confess that they did not bring
sophisticated tools or devices. They are confident that they can manage
even with simple compasses or GPS devices. When they finally arrive in the small town,
they try to interview a local resident, who is the tenth and final member of the Dyatlov group.
Fortunately, he fell ill at the last minute, and missed the adventure with a one-way ticket.
After Dyatlov's accident, he apparently had a mental breakdown, and has been in
the town's psychiatric facility ever since. When the students approach the institution,
three orderlies rush out. They furiously order them to stop filming, and get the hell out
of there. Confused, Holly asks why they cannot interview the tenth member of the Dyatlov group;
but the orderly claims that he is no longer alive, and aggressively insists that they should leave.
Moments later, the students notice an alcoholic old man named Mr. Vodka at the window, who is
holding a hand-drawn sign with the Russian word. Unfortunately, the students don't speak Russian
and can't understand his alcoholic message. Before they can realize what has happened, Mr. Vodka is
taken away from the window by two orderlies. Later that evening, they all go to a bar,
and ask the bartender about the mountain they are heading to. The bartender pours them the
same drink that the nine Russian hikers of the Dyatlov group had had before they set out. Then,
a truck driver approaches, and offers them a Tesla ride to the mountain. The next morning,
they set out on the truck. On the way, they stop to visit the truck driver's aunt,
who was a member of Dyatlov's rescue team. Before entering the house, Holly writes in
the snow the word she saw on Mr. Vodka's sign at the psychiatric facility. The truck driver
confirms that it means "stay away," but the group of students doesn't give it that much importance,
believing that it's just Mr. Vodka's alcoholic bullshit. Later, they decide to record,
and question the former member of the rescue team about what she saw. The woman on the
rescue mission tells them the whole story of how they discovered the bodies of the deceased. She
informs them that there were actually 11 bodies found, not just 9, as the news had reported
for some unknown reason. In addition, they had found some kind of machine, that the authorities
decided to hide from the public. Later, the team resumes their journey, and the truck
driver leaves them on the mountain trail. While walking along the trail, they discuss
various hypotheses that the authorities have found aliens, but they do so basically in
a joking manner. Some while later, They arrive at the well-known Mountain of the
Dead. Since the weather is changing rapidly and getting colder, they decide to camp and
continue their journey the next morning. Later that evening, Holly approaches the Cameraman,
who is admiring the sky with his binoculars. He tells her that a week before the Dyatlov tragedy,
some people spotted an orange glow in the sky. The villagers thought it was aliens,
while the government explained that it was just unusual weather conditions. The next morning, they
discover bizarre footprints around their camp. These footprints are larger than those of humans,
but the most unusual aspect is that they are barefoot prints. If everyone was barefoot at
this temperature, he would have frozen feet after only 10 minutes. The Cameraman jokes that they are
the Yeti's footprints. But Holly notes that these tracks appear in some areas, and then disappear
without traces, as if they had fallen from the sky; so the Yeti theory is no longer valid,
because he doesn't fly. On the other hand, Andy and J P suspect that Holly is mocking them by
making the footprints at night, while they were sound asleep like pigs. They resume their journey
soon; but at some point they hear a strange noise, and find more footprints like the ones before.
They are all terrified; and to make matters worse, they find an abandoned weather station,
inside which they discover a severed human tongue. It's weird since no people would
use a frozen tongue for a tongue massage on a snowy day. Shocked, they stop for a few moments,
Cameraman tells Holly about some mountains in China that produce a low-frequency sound,
that drives humans and animals crazy. He confesses that he heard this sound as a child, when he was
lost in the woods; and now he feels like he is reliving that moment. To lift his spirits, Holly
tells him about her dreams, in which she saw these mountains and a door leading only to darkness. She
interprets this as the destiny, that brought them here to unravel the riddle together. Soon after,
they continue walking and finally arrive at Dyatlov Pass, the place where the former nine
hikers died. They decide to stop and camp there. Holly marks the places where the hikers' bodies
were found, and tells them that some of them died in an unusual way. They had a fractured
skull and ribs, but no bruises on the body. Andy and J P claim that they arrived here earlier
than they thought, which is very strange. According to their calculations, they should
have arrived here around midnight. Also, the GPS stops working, and the compass points in the wrong
direction. So Andy and J P recommend that they leave this creepy place, and camp somewhere else
where the GPS and compass work. Nevertheless, Holly stresses that they must do this for the
sake of the documentary, and convinces them to stay for the night. Later that evening,
Holly and the Cameraman check the radiation levels in the area. Holly discovers a snow-covered
boulder, and decides to investigate. She scratches the surface, and discovers a
cave with a door. the door has been made of metal and is locked from the outside, as if to hide
something inside. Holly tries to open it, but the Cameraman points out that it is too dangerous, and
they shouldn't risk it. Excited, Holly says that is exactly why they are here, and convinces him
to help her. After a few tries, they realize it is stuck, and decide to try again tomorrow. However,
they hide this from the others so as not to scare them. When they return to the bonfire, the audio
engineer and Andy flirt and retreat together to a tent, possibly for a warm hormone yoga. The
next morning, they heard loud and frightening noises. Everyone comes out of their tents,
and is terrified to see an avalanche approaching. They run for their shitty lives, but the avalanche
is too fast, and immediately kills the audio engineer. In the process, the avalanche also
reaches Andy, who breaks his leg. They fix Andy's bone, and bandage his leg after the avalanche
stops. Holly suspects that the loud noises caused the avalanche, and that someone is trying to kill
them to cover the truth. Holly reveals that she and the Cameraman discovered a bunker last night.
The others get angry, because they could have hidden there instead of staying outside. They
decide to use the flare gun, and notice the orange hue, which explains why the sky was
orange the week before the Dyatlov tragedy. Authorities blamed the weather conditions;
but in fact, the nine Russian hikers had called for help using the orange hue. After some time,
they spot two men approaching them. Andy and his friend, being more experienced,
notice that they have no backpacks; so they didn't get here by accident. They immediately
suspect that the two men want to kill them, so Andy tells the others to run away. Although it is
difficult to leave a comrade behind, they run. suddenly, the two strangers start shooting at
them. Andy is shot in the head, and the others rush into the bunker to seek shelter. J P is
shot while opening the door; but fortunately, they manage to get inside and close the door.
They pull the switch to turn on the power, and discover they are in a tunnel. Now they must
find another way out. after proceeding deeper, they discover some kind of military laboratory.
They find a file and some documents related to human teleportation studies. J P has been shot
and cannot move; so Holly and the Cameraman decide to look for an exit, and come back for
him later. Wandering around the lab, they find a booklet containing the files of Russian soldiers,
each marked "killed in action." Most likely, they were killed because they saw something
they were not supposed to. They find a metal cell containing meat hooks, and some blood on
the floor. They also come across a dead soldier, whose tongue is missing, which explains why they
found the tongue earlier. Suddenly, they hear a noise and go to investigate. There is an open
door that they had previously found closed. They go Inside, and discover their exact camera;
but the Cameraman still has his camera with him, which is filming right now. Moreover,
while looking at the recordings, they discover that they bring back the same footage they have
been filming until now. Suddenly, J P starts screaming, and the two go to check on him. They
find two terrifying mutants that begin to torment them. The mutants move quickly like monkeys from
one place to another. When they try to attack the mutants, they disappear and reappear from
another angle. Nevertheless, the mutants don't seem intent on killing them, but force them into
another room. Holly and the Cameraman close the door, and find themselves in a cave of sorts.
They search further; and by throwing a rock, Holly discovers that there is a portal. They find
drawings of some ancient tribes that probably tried to use the portal many years ago. With no
other way out, the two decide to enter the portal, because if they return to the bunker, they will be
killed by the mutants. They enter the portal, and see that they have appeared outside, unconscious.
Suddenly, Russian soldiers arrive, and we find that they have gone back to the 1950s, when the
bodies of the nine hikers were found. The woman who then appears on the scene is actually the
truck driver's "aunt", who claims that the rescue team has found two other unknown bodies besides
those of the nine hikers of the Dyatlov group. The military brings the two bodies found in the
tunnel. they undress them to be naked, and hang them on hooks. Finally, we see confirmation that
it is Holly and the Cameraman, because the female has the same tattoo as Holly. We can
speculate that the Russians discovered this time portal, and wanted to use it as a weapon during
the Cold War. They sent several people through it, and discovered that they turned into mutants,
which is why the characters had found terrifying human skeletons. So the Russians shut down the
experiments, and hid the time portal from the world, until Holly and the Cameraman discovered
it. This explains why two men, possibly from the military, were sent to kill visitors approaching
the time portal, or to lock them inside the cave. But here comes the most interesting and shocking
part: Holly and the Cameraman's lives are actually on a loop created by the mysterious portal.
The dream Holly had mentioned and Cameraman's previous trip to the woods, are actually repressed
deja vu. The bare footprints found near the camp were left by the mutants, who we found out can
teleport. So when they arrived at the lab, Holly and Cameraman were being chased by no one else,
but their naked and mutant selves. This cycle will repeat until infinity,
every time they enter the portal. This explains why the mutants had no intention of killing them,
but just forced them into the portal. Apart from the movie, the precise reason for the
deaths of the nine Russian walkers has not yet been found. To this day, it remains an enigma.
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