You could do videos on: - Cure (1997) by Kiyoshi Kurosawa - The Host (2006) by Bong Joon-ho - The Fear Street trilogy (2021) by Leigh Janiak - Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017) by Issa López
One of the reasons why Dyaltov pass is considered solved is because of all things, Frozen. Not the horror movie, the Disney animated one. Frozen's snow physics engine was used (along with some tweaking to make it more accurate) to see if a type of small avalanche, a slab avalanche, would cause the types of injuries that many of the bodies had. It did, and it also helped explain why the tent wasnb't completely engulfed in snow, like it would be in a normal avalanche. This came out a couple years ago, and seemed pretty concrete! Not everything is solved obviously, but it could explain the inciting incident that lead to the incident.
Not to mention a lot of the most bizarre information surrounding it are really a check on how much you’re willing to research. Missing eyes and tongues? First thing scavenger animals take and it took weeks for a recovery team to get up there. Radiation on the clothes? Yeah only one the nuclear physicists clothes. One body was hurt like he’d been hit by a truck? He was found at the end of rapids washed up. Burns on their hands? Found near an attempted makeshift campfire. Every odd occurrence had an explanation.
Interesting, I was curious about the radiation found - as it’s always mentioned in every retelling - but there is also a legitimate answer for why that was, and that it was only a few pieces of clothing.
I love that they chose to use something like an animated movie "set" to try and solve a really talked about mystery, it's been my go-to explanation since I first read it.
I remember thinking it was a bit weird and distasteful that they portrayed the IRL survivor in that way given that he was still alive when the film was made. He died, like, a month after it was first released.
In fairness, they did at least bother to change his name. ...Mostly because Yuri Yudin was never committed to a mental institution and could have sued the bejeezus out of them for that.
@@dars5229 Not that the U.S. has a great past for telling the truth about such things, or were above infecting unknowing people with diseases, just to observe what happens; but the Soviet Union were far less truthful about anything. I mean the government lied, and hid so much information, about everything they did, that I don’t believe any of the official story, from the Soviets.
They didn’t. They substituted a fictitious survivor for the sake of art. Different name and story. It’s a movie, not a history book. It’s ridiculous to expect accuracy in a piece of fiction.
I remember Lemmino's video and to be completely honest I feel like his is the most compelling video essay on the "mystery" since.. Well, a lot of the details that people tend to be laser focused on are simply coincidental at best.. The clothes with trace amounts of radiation? The articles of clothing belong to two men that previously and regularly worked with radioactive materials.. The missing tongue? Obviously a scavenging animal finding a good meal.. But the one major theoretical conclusion that he showcased in the video displayed that the hikers actually set up a coal stove inside of the tent and that it caused the primary incident.. It explains the burn marks, the need for them to cut holes in the tent to let smoke out and eventually needing to escape while only partly dressed.. Not to mention that a good number of them were drunk so their judgement wasn't top notch at that time.. I agree with his statement of "I think the biggest mystery is how it's been able to remain a mystery given the abundance of information."
It was difficult to read this plethora of information because the case files were classified up to 2012 and eventually released to the public in 2013. The reason case was classified was the Mayak Nuclear Plant. Officialy it did not exist, but the radioactive material on the clothing came from liquidation efforts after the The Kyshtym disaster of 29 September 1957 that also officialy never happened. 🤷♂
That all makes sense! What's up with the internal wounds? Apparently it was like they got hit with a car, but there "wasn't any external wounds" (I'm not knowledgeable about this at all, but wouldn't missing tongues and eyes and burns count as external injuries?) I do believe Lemmino's theory, I'm just curious about this one aspect.
I would agree with all that except one thing. Why would the Russian government cover it up if the deaths were so obviously explainable from causes not related to the government?
@@AdamGee8 The guy a couple replies above you gives a pretty good explanation. Their radioactive material on their clothes was related to the Kyshtym nuclear disaster, which was covered up at the time. If the case files were public, people could connect the clothing to the disaster. So, it actually was covered up because of a connection to the government, but not because the government had an involvement in their death.
@@Chitownhomestead Yeah EXCEPT: The soviet union collapsed and stuff went off the rails. A nuclear fleet left to rust with no maintenance to active reactors. Isotope powered radio beacons left to collapse and be found by rando's getting firewood, and ultimately dying of radiation sickness. Even in the USA, abandoned missile silo's have been explored by UA-cam urbex types. In short, old military sites are only "off limits" for as long as there is money and political will to make them so. The notoriously sloppy former SU had neither.
@@percussion44 It's still super disrespectful and unrealistic that this is the direction the film went in. The Dyatlov pass mystery was solved already, but in a massive disservice to the victims, people keep insisting on shoving this supernatural stuff into the story.
Caitlyn Doughty (Ask a Mortician) did the best video breaking down this incident. it probably had the most compelling evidence backed answers you could arrive at- given the situation
If I recall right she talked about how a snow sim used to animate snow. Was used to test the theory of the avalanche. The animation that created this sim was one of the Frozen movies. Ask a Mortician is great
The vagueness of the time loop thing kinda makes it better for me. Films like this and Triangle are always so close to something legendary. THAT ENDING IS FIRE NGL
This movie is my guilty pleasure. On the one hand, it has so many horror tropes I like. Time loops! Secret experiments! Doomed expeditions! Lots of snow! On the other hand, it is full of tired stereotypes about Russians and (especially) USSR and kind of disrespectful to the real Dyatlov’s group. I have the same problem with that cursed found footage horror about Chernobyl.
I honestly enjoyed this movie. I loved the foreshadowing, the bonkers way it ends (I also love the design of the wormhole at the end), and how it tries to connect itself to another conspiracy, The Philadelphia Experiment (I'm not sure if I've heard of it before before I watched this movie). But I prefer Kholat when it comes to basing a horror story on the Dyatlov Incident. With Kholat, it feels more like it's using the Dyatlov Incident as a jumping off point to tell its own tale as opposed to going all in on the conspiracy angle (there are some conspiracy elements like the movie with mysterious anomalies and secret experiments, but it doesn't feel like it's trying to say something). It feels like it could've made up its own story, but they based it off of this event to add immersion and just because it's a creepy and mysterious case that has interesting possibilities for horror (this was before it was solved btw). Even though it's incredibly vague as to what's going on, it feels like there could be something more creative going on than what happens in the movie. It also just has better atmosphere, a haunting and beautiful soundtrack, amazing visuals and frigging Sean Bean (I'll never forget the phrase "WHERE IS ANTON!?").
"And the strange machine was their fucking camera" the way i laughed out loud at this, holy shit. When you've said earlier in the video that the outcome was batshit insane you REALLY meant it, huh
Fun fact: a popular, albeit inaccurate, translation of the original Mansi name for the mountain, Holatchahl, was "don't go there." it's kinda like how the name for the Taklamakan desert in China translates from Uighur to English as "Once you go in, you don't come back out."
There’s also a place in Kazakhstan called Barsa-Kelmes which translates to 'Go there - will not come back'. All sorts of unexplained creepy things happen there.
It's been a while since I've seen the Lemmino video, and when I checked the date I confirmed it was older than the latest in Dyatlov Pass breakthrough. In 2019, after getting the snow simulation code from the Frozen animators, a researcher was able to show that the most likely explanation was a slab avalanche. Basically, when they made camp against the mountain, they cut some of the snow away to make a flat area to set up the tents. Due to the different types of snow that fall and compact, doing so made a heavy top layer unstable and a large slab of compacted snow fell onto the tents while they slept. There's been a ton of articles and videos about it since. And I just love how Johan Gaume was so entranced by how realistic the snow in Frozen looked, and the animators happily shared the code with him for science.
There is a Russian TV show that came out in 2020 that was based on the new information from 2019. It follows a (fictionalized) investigation of the tragedy; the protagonist goes through basically every theory (secret experiments, escaped prisoners, ultrasound etc.) and finds out that all of them are wrong; the show also follows the Dyatlov’s group and shows the 'real' chain of events in the last episode. Quite heartbreaking.
The real incident seems pretty straight forward, avalanche and hypothermia. The accounts of no sigh of an avalanche were never given by the primary teams wo went up. Only third party "I heard from ...." accounts. The undressing, the mashed tents, the injuries showing internal not external (bruising would be severely delayed and retarded by the cold). Higher than background radiation is also common at an avalanche site, it's fascinating stuff. "Evidence one tried to climb a tree" I don't know about you guys, but if I saw an avalanche coming and the choice is try and climb near by tree for a slim chance, or certain death... well call me Squirrel Nutkin cos I'm getting up that tree.
@@confusedbadger6275 Yep, which would have only further compounded the elevation you get with an avalanche. These mysteries are like other "unsolved mysteries" They have been solved, but the mystery is way more fun
FALSE FALSE FALSE!!!! Jesus Christ you people see one article and never do more research than that. It actually hurts to see how mindlessly you all follow that which was already proved false
There was a show in the 2000's called "Masters of Horror" it's only 2 seasons with self contained episodes but there's some real gems in there totally up your alley and I think it's due for a renaissance.
My grandfather has a theory the sound of exploding trees (real thing) got mistaked for the sound of gunshots and a frightened and confused people ran out in the snow
@@GoatedJoyBoy one person had their tongue missing and what people forget when they bring it up is that said person was also missing their eyes, lips and parts of their face in general meaning that an animal had clearly just eaten off of her.
So, fun story. Back in like 2015, husband and I were both home with some kind of horrific flu bug that had us laid up in a feverish delirium for three days. Devil's Pass autoplayed after we finished watching Chernobyl Diaries and it was, for some reason probably related to the Unsolved Mysteries-obsessed small child in me, utterly enthralling. Even though it's absolute schlock, it's to this day one of my favorite happy place horror movies just because my fever-addled brain thought it was amazing ten years ago.
I think the monsters were trying to push their past selves to go through the portal. There was plenty of times for their mutated selves to kill them and they didn't. Its kinda like a self fulfilling profacy. The ending kimda gave that away with the smile. Its like "oh, we need to get there to become these powerful mutated gliches"
Ive been watching your videos for 7 years now, since i was in middle school, and for as long as a i can remember whenever i read the word ‘however’ or think it in my head, its in your voice/accent. It always defaults to it, even tho im from the US 😭 happy new year!
The incident was triggered by an avalanche, but a particular kind wherein a very hard chunk of ice slide down onto the tent crushing them and injuring a few of them. They were forced to cut through the tent to escape, and without a working shelter, they fled downhill with their injured companions and built a fire for them to try to keep them warm, but the injured died first. The others attempted to find protection from the winds and cold, and at some point one decided to try to get back to the tent for additional supplies. He did not make it. All perished. The tongues etc that were missing were caused by scavenging animals. The End.
You forgot to mention what caused the avalanche… which was likely due to explosions from Soviet Military’s missile testing as “flashing lights in the mountains” were reported by local villagers that lived in the area. The energy waves from weapons testing caused the hikers to be exposed to high levels of radiation which made their bodies feel like they were being cooked from the inside. Both the avalanche and the radiation exposure are why some of the hikers frantically cut through their tents and ran out into the snow while tearing their clothes off (in effort to cool down) exposing them to deadly hypothermia. Radiation exposure is also the reason why their skin turned to a bronze-orange color the morgue. Therefore, some of the hikers were killed by the crushing avalanche, while others collapsed and died from the radiation exposure. The last few survivors fled down to a tree-line and camped their to recover but met their demise at the hands of a Menk (Russian Yeti) that was likely infuriated by the destructive human activity and their presence in its territory. The evidence that confirms this is a grainy photograph of the Menk (as taken on one of the hikers camera that was later recovered). Based on the scale of the trees, the creature was estimated to stand at about 8 to 9 feet tall and about 50 yards away from the tent. The last of the journal entries said, “From now on, we know the Snowmen exist…”.
@@robmarsh918he’s lying just like half the people in these comments. This was proven false over two years ago I cannot believe people still ride with this story.
@@jaycemcqueen306 There’s a documentary and other investigations of the story that provides all the evidence I spoke of… Nobody has a monopoly over the official story because the Russian authorities will never disclose it. Until then… F~0FF 🤡
Oh my gosh! This is the found footage movie I recommended to you via UA-cam comment some years ago! I never thought you would cover it and it’s so cool you did! Back then I was still in university, since then I’ve dropped out, went back to high school, and now back to college.
There's been a lot of research about the incident in the last few years, and it's now believed that a slab avalanche was the immediate cause. It's believed they made camp in a very unstable part of the mountain, and that while it wasn't slanted enough for a regular avalanche, a slab avalanche happened instead. From there, a wide array of efforts to escape such as cutting their way out of tents, running away in fear of a larger avalanche while only being partially clothed, or digging snow dens only for those to collapse on them. There are a few articles explain how a slab avalanche works and why it was the likely cause.
Actually, the Dyatlov Pass mystery has been mostly solved. It really was an avalanche that made them run off and the radiation was that one of the workers worked at Chernobyl. The missing organs and body parts were from scavenging animals too.
@@_Munshkawell obviously it's too old a case to know exactly what happened, but it's the best theory which fits the known facts. The science behind those avalanches is sound. Apart from the Chernobyl thing, OP got that wrong.
I've had hypothermia. I think you undress because you have so much heat leaving your body it confuses the temperature senses in the skin. I was just camping in the UK at an event so went to the first aid cabin. My head felt boiling hot because th rest of me was bundled up. I was definitely out of it as I thought my friend kept coming back and having the same conversation with the St John's ambulance member looking after me. I've also had a temp of 40 during anaphylactic shock and thought I was freezing. To the extent I was playing tug of war for the bedding with my nurse.
I love this channel! Ryan, I only ended up discovering the film "Dead Man's Shoes" because of your review. It went from a completely unknown (to me, at least) movie, to one of my favorite flicks of all time! Thank you for that! I've discovered several other really enjoyable films because of videos like this one, and I really appreciate that.
6:16 I have a soft spot for Chernobyl Diaries honestly 😅 Something really neat it does in the set up is the camera lingers a lot on empty spaces FFAAARRRR before anything spooky starts happening. It really makes the gradual scares harder to spot and more subtle.. right up until it becomes fully stupid
This accident is really really messed up! There are so many strange things in the survivor’s account, like for example she said that 'no one would come back to life anymore'.
And there's just something so lovecraftian about the way the hikers died in this one. Could be super haunting specially if they don't try to explain it.
Another piece of horror media that's based on the Dyatlov Pass Incident is the game, Kholat. It's a very surreal, long and slow paced experience, and if you can tolerate a lot of walking and hiking while occasionally hiding or running from monsters teleporting around you and other strange stuff as well as having to memorize specific GPS coordinates on your own instead of the game holding your hand, I recommend it. It has an amazing soundtrack (particularly the theme), and is narrated by Sean Bean. It has a lot of surreal sequences and it's not exactly clear as to what's happening, it also has to do with mysterious anomalies and secret experiments, but it's much different and not as concrete as this movie (I theorize that aliens are involved because of newspaper clippings talking about lights in the sky along with some of the visuals depicting what look like meteorites crashing, but it's still not entirely clear), it's also not clear whether what we're seeing is real or not (especially depending on the ending you get and just the strange structures in general). It's kind of like Everybody's Gone To The Rapture in some aspects with the way the story is presented and even how certain locations suddenly change the environment and lighting, just with some kind of teleporting, humanoid entity that you have to sneak around (and at least one chase scene). It's one of the few games that I've played next to Kona that truly makes me feel cold, as if I was there in the freezing blizzards. As I've said before, it has two endings depending on whether or not you've collected everything and found every location. The color orange is a reoccurring motif in the game because of the detail of an "orange skin color" found on one of the bodies. Kholat is the first thing that comes to mind when it comes to horror media based on this event. Update: Also, the game feels more like it's using the Dyatlov Pass Incident as a jumping off point to tell its own tale as opposed to shoving in conspiracies (the incident is creepy on its own and this was before it was solved, so there's so much more potential for horror).
It's kind of funny coincidence for me when he mentioned the mothman and teleworking mutants, because I've been playing non stop fallout 76 and it does indeed have a Mothman that also teleports and is a mysterious eldritch being.
The UA-cam channel, The Lore Lodge, has a trilogy of vids on the whole incident. All of them are really insightful and present the facts in a coherent manner.
@@kombatwombat6579 Agreed. They've been nailed for plagiarism before, too. Ask A Mortician, on the other hand, did a really good video on how, I kid you not, the snow modelling tech from the movie Frozen was used to find a very believable explanation for what really happened at Dyatlov Pass.
There is already a movie about the USS Eldritch called The Philadelphia Experiment. I haven't seen it since I was a child, so no guarantees about it's quality.
Yeah, it was a box office flop but must have been successful on video because they made a sequel called, you guessed it, The Philadelphia Experiment 2.
One time when I was freezing to death, the worst part was that I started to forget my name and my family. Like it was just draining out of me. By the time I was rescued it took me five or six tries to remember my fathers number. Scary.
Thanks Ryan for another great video! You said it in here, but I always love how you choose such atmospheric movies for the seasons. Thanks for making this cold wintry night just a little spooky!
I only remember this movie because I was looking through Gemma Atkinson's filmography. Never watched it, I've seen the lemino video on it and that's about it.
The Dyatlov Pass incident is among the most eerie cases of a group of people who perished under dire circumstances. The first time I learned about what occurred in 1959, I genuinely felt unsettled by the incident and what happened to the nine hikers. I have to say that all nine were trying to survive, hence the torn clothing, their bodies at random locations, and the tearing of their tent. It all points to the evidence of an avalanche and the people dying from hypothermia. However, the conditions of the other bodies were ghastly and straight out of a horror story. As for the movie, I like the idea of making a horror movie centering on the incident with a more fanciful twist. But I would have loved it to be a psychological horror- being isolated from civilization and under the harsh elements could make an unsettling idea for a movie.
That last part, that's exactly what the video game, Kholat, does. It's a slow paced, surreal experience that perfectly showcases a cold, isolated environment. Even though it has supernatural elements, it's nothing like this movie and it's also incredibly vague as to what exactly is going on (or even what's real at all). It's not a conspiracy story and it feels more like it's using the Dyatlov Pass Incident as a jumping off point to tell its own story. The game isn't for everyone. It's a walking simulator with a lot of walking, occasionally sneaking around teleporting humanoid ghost-like beings, and memorizing specific GPS coordinates instead of the game doing it for you. It's also very long with a bigger focus on the chilling atmosphere rather than some mainstream game with cheap thrills (it barely has any jumpscares, if any at all).
I loved this movie! I really never expected it to go anywhere close to where it went, thinking it would be more of a “then Aleksei went nuts and killed everybody!”. Boy, was I surprised! And even though it ended up totally batshit, I thoroughly enjoyed the madness. I’ve gone back and rewatched it twice, so I really must have. The biggest surprise from your analysis is that it was a Renny Harlin movie. Thanks for covering it!
As someone who has delved a bit into the Dyatlov Pass Incident rabbit hole I have to say that I'm quite torn on this tragic incident where several people lost their lives being turned into some cheap, sensationalized horror schlock. It feels really disrespectful to the victims who were actual human beings with loved ones that were deeply impacted by their untimely loss. As such I'm gonna choose to ignore the more... Sensationalized approach taken here and choose to point people towards The Why Files video on it whose theory I think is the most logical that I've heard yet. Basically the conclusion they came to is that a rare type of avalanche occurred after the group had settled into the tent for the night(which is why they had things like broken bones, had to cut their way out of the tent from the inside, and weren't wearing proper protective clothing), and everything else that happened after was just these people doing their best, and sadly failing, to survive such a tragic natural disaster. It even gives you a pretty reasonable explanation behind the radiation found at the scene, but that's a bit too long to go into and I'd suggest watching the video yourself for anyone interested in more.
At least with Kholat, it feels more like it's using the incident as a jumping off point to tell its own story as opposed to taking the conspiracy angle.
The Dyatlov Pass incident is actually insanely easy to explain. Paradoxical undressing due to hypothermia, carbon monoxide inhalation caused by a faulty stove vent, most if not all of the men worked with radioactive materials, and animals scavenging the bodies explains absolutely everything that happened to the group.
I love this movie! It's one of the reasons I own a region-free Blu-ray player. I think it only got poor reviews because people were expecting actual answers out of it. As a movie that doesn't address the real mystery, it's so much fun!
The thing I hate the most about this “mystery” is the radiation. Everyone likes to mention it, but no one likes to mention the most important part about the radiation… it was only found on the clothes of the nuclear physicist in trace amounts in line with what he may have naturally had on him from his job…
i do admire how much this movie went all in. it could have gone with a simple “a group of journalist-types become obsessed with a mystery and project their own desires onto the story when in reality it was just a simple disappearance” story, but no. time travel government experimentation mutant cannibal plot line
I recommend "le vourdalak", a french movie from this year based on a Russian fairytale. It makes a great companion piece to the new Nosferatu. Less epic, more small scale, but just as intimate.
When I watched this, it was one of those happy coicidences where I had NO expectations and was SO pleasantly surprised... It's a fun watch, so entertaining. Great video good sir!
Truth be told, I first learned of the Dyatlov Pass Incident from all those list videos I watched as a young teen on the Internet for the first time, and I would have sworn that it happened more recently than it did - the interest and devotion to it felt so FRESH. Learning that it happened in 1959 kind of feels like a bleak shock.
The album Sorni Nai by Kauan is based on the dyatlov pass incident and it is absolutely beautiful and haunting! A must listen especially if you're going to get yourself a pair of Raycons
I watched this movie some time back and realized that his movie was meant for people like me who were familiar with the Philadelphia Experiment, the 1984 movie associated with the legend, and the Dyatlov Pass and its comparatives with a sprinkle of the 1980 film The Final Countdown and the 1980 movie The Return.
As bizarre as this movie is, people have to remember that at the time when this movie and Kholat were released, this incident wasn't fully solved yet. It's like media that use The Bloop as the basis for their horror story (although if it was still used today, it would definitely go the conspiracy route of "that wasn't an iceberg.").
I watched this movie a looooooooong time ago when it first came out online. I agree that it dragged a little in the beginning, but from the point where they found the tongue (ew + why?) it had my attention - especially after I saw those two figures in the background. The time loop thing was kind of a given, but the creature feature was bonkers fun!
Loved the grouping you did here with mothman and that other one. Would be fun to review more “urban-legend-Esque” movies down the road, for example the mentioned Chernobyl diaries
I loved this movie. Because of it, I watched the documentaries about the actual incident on tubi. "An Unknown Compelling Force" and "The Dyatlov Mystery". Both were very good.
Sounds like Devil's Pass was trying to outdo YellowBrickRoad, which came out three years earlier, and wasn't so successful. Great video, Ryan. Hope you had a good Christmas and New Year, and I look forward to seeing what movies you review (hopefully a few of my favorites end up on your list).
Just got a bunch of snow where I am, so this is very timely. I’d probably let the movie run in the background for a second watch if I had easy access to it, it’s a funky little found footage
The “eyes missing” thing in the real incident may be a misunderstanding. One of the early changes to a body after death is that the eye orbs deflate. The rest of the body may look “ok” but the eye sockets will gap, and look “empty.” Some see this state and describe it as “the eyes were missing,” but it’s not like the eyes were removed or anything….they just deflated as the fluid that kept the spherical stopped flowing. Or it may be a mis-translation, with the Russian pathologist writing “the eye sockets are empty” to describe the above, but that got translated as “the eyes were gone” …then after a few re-tellings, it became “and the eyes were removed!!”
Great discussion of a bonkers but fun flick. It made me think of another, Entity, from 2012. A group go to Russia to investigate a huge missing person case. Also bonkers, no time travel, just supernatural. Entertaining, might be worth a look.
I love crazy conspiracy stories mixed with actual accounts on crazy stuff that happened, but this movie 💀 happy u still covered it, n hoping u cover Absentia sometime soon, it's still odd n kinda eerie & deals with other worldly beings
Hey Ryan, have you thought about covering the Ted the Caver creepypasta? First creepypasta written on Angelfire in 2001. There’s also a UA-cam adaptation called Ted’s Caving Journal done by Alex Archives that is also fantastic and very faithful to the story.
I remember netflix picking this for my sister & I to watch one later summer night years ago and I think the only reason we continued to watch it after the first 30 min.s was because seeing all the snow was tricking our brains into thinking we were cold. in the end it felt incredibly disrespectful to the people that lost their loves and the surviving families members to jump to worm-hole-time-traveling-cannibals.
Would love for you to cover (if you haven't already) Starry Eyes, Perfect Blue, Cuckoo, The Vast of Night, Pocessor, Love Lies Bleeding, The Invitation, Raging Grace
I could swear you reviewed this one, but I couldn’t find it or any other video that I might’ve mistaken it for. Which feels creepily fitting. Still, great job.
The whole Igor thing… perhaps it is like Dostoevsky novels, where each character has numerous nicknames. I remember Raskolnekov getting called Roddy, Raski and others too.
I watched this video with a bunch of friends in our senior year of high school. An absolutely bonkers watch. So interesting revisiting it now as an adult, I appreciate this video.
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You could do videos on:
- Cure (1997) by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- The Host (2006) by Bong Joon-ho
- The Fear Street trilogy (2021) by Leigh Janiak
- Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017) by Issa López
A review of a relatively recent Netflix film called "Outside" would be awesome.
Just going to recommend Incident At Loch Ness again.
Talk about some of Disney's dark live action movies like return to oz, black hole, something wicked this way comes, and the watcher in the woods
Hi Ryan. You could try to review these movies:
Noroi (2005)
Exihibit A (2007)
Splinter (2008)
One of the reasons why Dyaltov pass is considered solved is because of all things, Frozen. Not the horror movie, the Disney animated one. Frozen's snow physics engine was used (along with some tweaking to make it more accurate) to see if a type of small avalanche, a slab avalanche, would cause the types of injuries that many of the bodies had. It did, and it also helped explain why the tent wasnb't completely engulfed in snow, like it would be in a normal avalanche.
This came out a couple years ago, and seemed pretty concrete! Not everything is solved obviously, but it could explain the inciting incident that lead to the incident.
Not to mention a lot of the most bizarre information surrounding it are really a check on how much you’re willing to research. Missing eyes and tongues? First thing scavenger animals take and it took weeks for a recovery team to get up there. Radiation on the clothes? Yeah only one the nuclear physicists clothes. One body was hurt like he’d been hit by a truck? He was found at the end of rapids washed up. Burns on their hands? Found near an attempted makeshift campfire. Every odd occurrence had an explanation.
So with the Dyatlov Pass incident, we can finally
Let it go
Ah yes because avalanches really prove all the other stuff too... The radiation, the creature sightings, it was all caused by avalanches.
Interesting, I was curious about the radiation found - as it’s always mentioned in every retelling - but there is also a legitimate answer for why that was, and that it was only a few pieces of clothing.
I love that they chose to use something like an animated movie "set" to try and solve a really talked about mystery, it's been my go-to explanation since I first read it.
Ryan: “stay away from time-shifting mutants”
Ryan’s disembodied head: “Hey, Ryan from the future, here..”
Perfectly timed jump scare. Ryan has become what he reviews.
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And his Raycons were the device found in 1959!
Stay away from time shifting mutants
Hõôøœever... They won't stay away from you 😈👻
*screams 'neeeeeeaaaaaoooow" leaves*
I remember thinking it was a bit weird and distasteful that they portrayed the IRL survivor in that way given that he was still alive when the film was made. He died, like, a month after it was first released.
That's Renny Harlin for you
In fairness, they did at least bother to change his name.
...Mostly because Yuri Yudin was never committed to a mental institution and could have sued the bejeezus out of them for that.
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Not that the U.S. has a great past for telling the truth about such things, or were above infecting unknowing people with diseases, just to observe what happens; but the Soviet Union were far less truthful about anything. I mean the government lied, and hid so much information, about everything they did, that I don’t believe any of the official story, from the Soviets.
That's... wow. How awful, that's super disrespectful of the filmmakers to do.
They didn’t. They substituted a fictitious survivor for the sake of art. Different name and story. It’s a movie, not a history book. It’s ridiculous to expect accuracy in a piece of fiction.
FIrst "hoyevver" for the year drops at 1:02.
Now, the year can truly begin.
Stop saying what ima say before i say it.
Where is he from? Northern Ireland? I watched his clips from time to time if something interesting appears but yeah his accent is weird.
@@demirg1421 it’s not weird for irish 😂
@eliotmccann2589 The type of comment I search for in every Video.
I remember Lemmino's video and to be completely honest I feel like his is the most compelling video essay on the "mystery" since.. Well, a lot of the details that people tend to be laser focused on are simply coincidental at best.. The clothes with trace amounts of radiation? The articles of clothing belong to two men that previously and regularly worked with radioactive materials.. The missing tongue? Obviously a scavenging animal finding a good meal.. But the one major theoretical conclusion that he showcased in the video displayed that the hikers actually set up a coal stove inside of the tent and that it caused the primary incident.. It explains the burn marks, the need for them to cut holes in the tent to let smoke out and eventually needing to escape while only partly dressed.. Not to mention that a good number of them were drunk so their judgement wasn't top notch at that time.. I agree with his statement of "I think the biggest mystery is how it's been able to remain a mystery given the abundance of information."
This needs to be way higher. It’s compelling and makes the most sense without resorting to wild theories.
It was difficult to read this plethora of information because the case files were classified up to 2012 and eventually released to the public in 2013. The reason case was classified was the Mayak Nuclear Plant. Officialy it did not exist, but the radioactive material on the clothing came from liquidation efforts after the The Kyshtym disaster of 29 September 1957 that also officialy never happened. 🤷♂
That all makes sense! What's up with the internal wounds? Apparently it was like they got hit with a car, but there "wasn't any external wounds" (I'm not knowledgeable about this at all, but wouldn't missing tongues and eyes and burns count as external injuries?) I do believe Lemmino's theory, I'm just curious about this one aspect.
I would agree with all that except one thing. Why would the Russian government cover it up if the deaths were so obviously explainable from causes not related to the government?
@@AdamGee8 The guy a couple replies above you gives a pretty good explanation. Their radioactive material on their clothes was related to the Kyshtym nuclear disaster, which was covered up at the time. If the case files were public, people could connect the clothing to the disaster. So, it actually was covered up because of a connection to the government, but not because the government had an involvement in their death.
Thing about government testing sites, they make them really obvious they are off limits. It’s almost impossible for civilians to just stumble in
Correct
@@Chitownhomestead Yeah EXCEPT:
The soviet union collapsed and stuff went off the rails. A nuclear fleet left to rust with no maintenance to active reactors.
Isotope powered radio beacons left to collapse and be found by rando's getting firewood, and ultimately dying of radiation sickness.
Even in the USA, abandoned missile silo's have been explored by UA-cam urbex types.
In short, old military sites are only "off limits" for as long as there is money and political will to make them so. The notoriously sloppy former SU had neither.
@@percussion44 It's still super disrespectful and unrealistic that this is the direction the film went in. The Dyatlov pass mystery was solved already, but in a massive disservice to the victims, people keep insisting on shoving this supernatural stuff into the story.
@@WobblesandBeanlol. It's a Movie not a documentary
You’re a sheep. That’s not true bro.
Caitlyn Doughty (Ask a Mortician) did the best video breaking down this incident. it probably had the most compelling evidence backed answers you could arrive at- given the situation
Doughty*
I own a few of her books, and even bought some sweaters off her little marketplace. Order Of The Good Death forever!!!
She is absolutely phenomenal, one bad B.
If I recall right she talked about how a snow sim used to animate snow. Was used to test the theory of the avalanche. The animation that created this sim was one of the Frozen movies. Ask a Mortician is great
The vagueness of the time loop thing kinda makes it better for me. Films like this and Triangle are always so close to something legendary.
THAT ENDING IS FIRE NGL
Triangle is so good. Have you seen Timecrimes? It's another great one in a similar vein. Oh, and Predestination, of course.
This movie is my guilty pleasure. On the one hand, it has so many horror tropes I like. Time loops! Secret experiments! Doomed expeditions! Lots of snow!
On the other hand, it is full of tired stereotypes about Russians and (especially) USSR and kind of disrespectful to the real Dyatlov’s group.
I have the same problem with that cursed found footage horror about Chernobyl.
If you like those movies, have you ever seen Banshee Chapter?
@@mollyt1296 yes I have, I like it too! MK-Ultra and numbers stations are also my favorite creepy stuff.
Wow, you really have an interesting taste in movies.
I honestly enjoyed this movie. I loved the foreshadowing, the bonkers way it ends (I also love the design of the wormhole at the end), and how it tries to connect itself to another conspiracy, The Philadelphia Experiment (I'm not sure if I've heard of it before before I watched this movie). But I prefer Kholat when it comes to basing a horror story on the Dyatlov Incident. With Kholat, it feels more like it's using the Dyatlov Incident as a jumping off point to tell its own tale as opposed to going all in on the conspiracy angle (there are some conspiracy elements like the movie with mysterious anomalies and secret experiments, but it doesn't feel like it's trying to say something). It feels like it could've made up its own story, but they based it off of this event to add immersion and just because it's a creepy and mysterious case that has interesting possibilities for horror (this was before it was solved btw). Even though it's incredibly vague as to what's going on, it feels like there could be something more creative going on than what happens in the movie. It also just has better atmosphere, a haunting and beautiful soundtrack, amazing visuals and frigging Sean Bean (I'll never forget the phrase "WHERE IS ANTON!?").
@ I heard only good things about Kholat. I am not a gamer, but I think I should definitely check out some play through
"And the strange machine was their fucking camera" the way i laughed out loud at this, holy shit. When you've said earlier in the video that the outcome was batshit insane you REALLY meant it, huh
"Strange machine". I was so confused by the end. It's 1959 not 1859. What she should've said was "strange camera".
Considering how popular this event was, I’m kinda shocked we don’t have like 30 films on it.
Fun fact: a popular, albeit inaccurate, translation of the original Mansi name for the mountain, Holatchahl, was "don't go there." it's kinda like how the name for the Taklamakan desert in China translates from Uighur to English as "Once you go in, you don't come back out."
There’s also a place in Kazakhstan called Barsa-Kelmes which translates to 'Go there - will not come back'. All sorts of unexplained creepy things happen there.
@@GallowglassVT that's metal AF
It's been a while since I've seen the Lemmino video, and when I checked the date I confirmed it was older than the latest in Dyatlov Pass breakthrough. In 2019, after getting the snow simulation code from the Frozen animators, a researcher was able to show that the most likely explanation was a slab avalanche. Basically, when they made camp against the mountain, they cut some of the snow away to make a flat area to set up the tents. Due to the different types of snow that fall and compact, doing so made a heavy top layer unstable and a large slab of compacted snow fell onto the tents while they slept. There's been a ton of articles and videos about it since.
And I just love how Johan Gaume was so entranced by how realistic the snow in Frozen looked, and the animators happily shared the code with him for science.
There is a Russian TV show that came out in 2020 that was based on the new information from 2019. It follows a (fictionalized) investigation of the tragedy; the protagonist goes through basically every theory (secret experiments, escaped prisoners, ultrasound etc.) and finds out that all of them are wrong; the show also follows the Dyatlov’s group and shows the 'real' chain of events in the last episode. Quite heartbreaking.
The real incident seems pretty straight forward, avalanche and hypothermia. The accounts of no sigh of an avalanche were never given by the primary teams wo went up. Only third party "I heard from ...." accounts.
The undressing, the mashed tents, the injuries showing internal not external (bruising would be severely delayed and retarded by the cold).
Higher than background radiation is also common at an avalanche site, it's fascinating stuff.
"Evidence one tried to climb a tree" I don't know about you guys, but if I saw an avalanche coming and the choice is try and climb near by tree for a slim chance, or certain death... well call me Squirrel Nutkin cos I'm getting up that tree.
Re the radioactivity, iirc one of the dudes actually worked with radioactive materials at his university.
Look up the date of the Mayak disaster, and suddenly it all starts to make sense.
@@confusedbadger6275 Yep, which would have only further compounded the elevation you get with an avalanche.
These mysteries are like other "unsolved mysteries" They have been solved, but the mystery is way more fun
FALSE FALSE FALSE!!!! Jesus Christ you people see one article and never do more research than that. It actually hurts to see how mindlessly you all follow that which was already proved false
There was a show in the 2000's called "Masters of Horror" it's only 2 seasons with self contained episodes but there's some real gems in there totally up your alley and I think it's due for a renaissance.
I second this!
takashi miike's episode >>>
@@itsmesnacks Absolutely! And Stuart Gordon's episode, too!
@@itsmesnacks Man, that one is so fucked up lol. Great show. Ya'll watch that recent Guillermo Del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities? It was pretty good!
Yes, we all know Masters of Horror, but if you're obnoxiously trying to "recommend" it, seems like he only covers movies on this channel.
My grandfather has a theory the sound of exploding trees (real thing) got mistaked for the sound of gunshots and a frightened and confused people ran out in the snow
doesnt explain why thier tounges were missing
@@GoatedJoyBoy It's one of the first things eaten by wild animals.
@@GoatedJoyBoy Small scavengers like foxes will eat soft tissue like eyes and tongues.
@@GoatedJoyBoy one person had their tongue missing and what people forget when they bring it up is that said person was also missing their eyes, lips and parts of their face in general meaning that an animal had clearly just eaten off of her.
@@dunningdunning4711 doesn’t explain the yeti footprints that were found. Yetis don’t eat tongues.
So, fun story. Back in like 2015, husband and I were both home with some kind of horrific flu bug that had us laid up in a feverish delirium for three days. Devil's Pass autoplayed after we finished watching Chernobyl Diaries and it was, for some reason probably related to the Unsolved Mysteries-obsessed small child in me, utterly enthralling. Even though it's absolute schlock, it's to this day one of my favorite happy place horror movies just because my fever-addled brain thought it was amazing ten years ago.
I think the monsters were trying to push their past selves to go through the portal. There was plenty of times for their mutated selves to kill them and they didn't. Its kinda like a self fulfilling profacy. The ending kimda gave that away with the smile. Its like "oh, we need to get there to become these powerful mutated gliches"
Ive been watching your videos for 7 years now, since i was in middle school, and for as long as a i can remember whenever i read the word ‘however’ or think it in my head, its in your voice/accent. It always defaults to it, even tho im from the US 😭 happy new year!
The incident was triggered by an avalanche, but a particular kind wherein a very hard chunk of ice slide down onto the tent crushing them and injuring a few of them. They were forced to cut through the tent to escape, and without a working shelter, they fled downhill with their injured companions and built a fire for them to try to keep them warm, but the injured died first. The others attempted to find protection from the winds and cold, and at some point one decided to try to get back to the tent for additional supplies. He did not make it. All perished. The tongues etc that were missing were caused by scavenging animals. The End.
You forgot to mention what caused the avalanche… which was likely due to explosions from Soviet Military’s missile testing as “flashing lights in the mountains” were reported by local villagers that lived in the area.
The energy waves from weapons testing caused the hikers to be exposed to high levels of radiation which made their bodies feel like they were being cooked from the inside.
Both the avalanche and the radiation exposure are why some of the hikers frantically cut through their tents and ran out into the snow while tearing their clothes off (in effort to cool down) exposing them to deadly hypothermia.
Radiation exposure is also the reason why their skin turned to a bronze-orange color the morgue.
Therefore, some of the hikers were killed by the crushing avalanche, while others collapsed and died from the radiation exposure.
The last few survivors fled down to a tree-line and camped their to recover but met their demise at the hands of a Menk (Russian Yeti) that was likely infuriated by the destructive human activity and their presence in its territory.
The evidence that confirms this is a grainy photograph of the Menk (as taken on one of the hikers camera that was later recovered). Based on the scale of the trees, the creature was estimated to stand at about 8 to 9 feet tall and about 50 yards away from the tent.
The last of the journal entries said, “From now on, we know the Snowmen exist…”.
Oh, you were there? 🤣🤣
@@garyhomanick6129Where in the world did you hear this?
@@robmarsh918he’s lying just like half the people in these comments. This was proven false over two years ago I cannot believe people still ride with this story.
@@jaycemcqueen306 There’s a documentary and other investigations of the story that provides all the evidence I spoke of…
Nobody has a monopoly over the official story because the Russian authorities will never disclose it.
Until then… F~0FF 🤡
Oh my gosh! This is the found footage movie I recommended to you via UA-cam comment some years ago! I never thought you would cover it and it’s so cool you did!
Back then I was still in university, since then I’ve dropped out, went back to high school, and now back to college.
There's been a lot of research about the incident in the last few years, and it's now believed that a slab avalanche was the immediate cause. It's believed they made camp in a very unstable part of the mountain, and that while it wasn't slanted enough for a regular avalanche, a slab avalanche happened instead. From there, a wide array of efforts to escape such as cutting their way out of tents, running away in fear of a larger avalanche while only being partially clothed, or digging snow dens only for those to collapse on them. There are a few articles explain how a slab avalanche works and why it was the likely cause.
THIS WAS DISPROVEN TWO YEARS AGO JESUS CHRIST STOP SPREADING THIS
It’s not a slab avalanche. Theory doesn’t hold up, sorry.
10 minutes ago I was thinking how much I'd love a new found footage review from you. Imagine my joy when refreshing the home page!
Actually, the Dyatlov Pass mystery has been mostly solved. It really was an avalanche that made them run off and the radiation was that one of the workers worked at Chernobyl. The missing organs and body parts were from scavenging animals too.
Chernobyl powerplant only became operable in 1977, 18 years after Dyatlov's Pass incident, its not possible.
@@CiderBearUntier he got it wrong, it was because one of them was a liquidator during the Kyshtym disaster in the Mayak nuclear plant
I think that’s just a theory, we still don’t know what happened exactly.
Actually, no
@@_Munshkawell obviously it's too old a case to know exactly what happened, but it's the best theory which fits the known facts. The science behind those avalanches is sound.
Apart from the Chernobyl thing, OP got that wrong.
I've had hypothermia. I think you undress because you have so much heat leaving your body it confuses the temperature senses in the skin. I was just camping in the UK at an event so went to the first aid cabin. My head felt boiling hot because th rest of me was bundled up. I was definitely out of it as I thought my friend kept coming back and having the same conversation with the St John's ambulance member looking after me. I've also had a temp of 40 during anaphylactic shock and thought I was freezing. To the extent I was playing tug of war for the bedding with my nurse.
NO FREAKING WAY YOU ACTUSLLY MADE A VIDEO ABOUT THIS MOVIE AT LONG LAST 😭😭❤ been wishing for this for soooo long!!
I love this channel! Ryan, I only ended up discovering the film "Dead Man's Shoes" because of your review. It went from a completely unknown (to me, at least) movie, to one of my favorite flicks of all time! Thank you for that! I've discovered several other really enjoyable films because of videos like this one, and I really appreciate that.
How much for 3 elbows?
@Ulcerbloom New Year's special: buy two, get one free!
6:16 I have a soft spot for Chernobyl Diaries honestly 😅 Something really neat it does in the set up is the camera lingers a lot on empty spaces FFAAARRRR before anything spooky starts happening. It really makes the gradual scares harder to spot and more subtle.. right up until it becomes fully stupid
They should also do one about the Khamar Daban incident (give it a read, horrifying). Could be a horror/survival film.
that one would have worked better with the government conspiracy angle this movie had.
Definitely.
This accident is really really messed up! There are so many strange things in the survivor’s account, like for example she said that 'no one would come back to life anymore'.
And there's just something so lovecraftian about the way the hikers died in this one. Could be super haunting specially if they don't try to explain it.
*Supposedly died
Another piece of horror media that's based on the Dyatlov Pass Incident is the game, Kholat. It's a very surreal, long and slow paced experience, and if you can tolerate a lot of walking and hiking while occasionally hiding or running from monsters teleporting around you and other strange stuff as well as having to memorize specific GPS coordinates on your own instead of the game holding your hand, I recommend it. It has an amazing soundtrack (particularly the theme), and is narrated by Sean Bean. It has a lot of surreal sequences and it's not exactly clear as to what's happening, it also has to do with mysterious anomalies and secret experiments, but it's much different and not as concrete as this movie (I theorize that aliens are involved because of newspaper clippings talking about lights in the sky along with some of the visuals depicting what look like meteorites crashing, but it's still not entirely clear), it's also not clear whether what we're seeing is real or not (especially depending on the ending you get and just the strange structures in general). It's kind of like Everybody's Gone To The Rapture in some aspects with the way the story is presented and even how certain locations suddenly change the environment and lighting, just with some kind of teleporting, humanoid entity that you have to sneak around (and at least one chase scene). It's one of the few games that I've played next to Kona that truly makes me feel cold, as if I was there in the freezing blizzards. As I've said before, it has two endings depending on whether or not you've collected everything and found every location. The color orange is a reoccurring motif in the game because of the detail of an "orange skin color" found on one of the bodies. Kholat is the first thing that comes to mind when it comes to horror media based on this event. Update: Also, the game feels more like it's using the Dyatlov Pass Incident as a jumping off point to tell its own tale as opposed to shoving in conspiracies (the incident is creepy on its own and this was before it was solved, so there's so much more potential for horror).
It's kind of funny coincidence for me when he mentioned the mothman and teleworking mutants, because I've been playing non stop fallout 76 and it does indeed have a Mothman that also teleports and is a mysterious eldritch being.
The UA-cam channel, The Lore Lodge, has a trilogy of vids on the whole incident. All of them are really insightful and present the facts in a coherent manner.
I love the lore lodge!
Meh. Sensationalist and kinda conspiratorial channel.
@@kombatwombat6579 Agreed. They've been nailed for plagiarism before, too.
Ask A Mortician, on the other hand, did a really good video on how, I kid you not, the snow modelling tech from the movie Frozen was used to find a very believable explanation for what really happened at Dyatlov Pass.
@thing_under_the_stairs You just blew my mind hard. Gonna watch that. Thanks!
@@kombatwombat6579 Enjoy! Caitlin always does good work, and she's always funny, too!
There is already a movie about the USS Eldritch called The Philadelphia Experiment. I haven't seen it since I was a child, so no guarantees about it's quality.
Yeah, it was a box office flop but must have been successful on video because they made a sequel called, you guessed it, The Philadelphia Experiment 2.
0:38 So we're just gonna ignore the guy beside Igor Dyatlov?
That's just Mr. Semen Zolotarev
Hahahha i had to focus
One time when I was freezing to death, the worst part was that I started to forget my name and my family. Like it was just draining out of me. By the time I was rescued it took me five or six tries to remember my fathers number. Scary.
im really warm and i dont know my dads number
Thanks Ryan for another great video! You said it in here, but I always love how you choose such atmospheric movies for the seasons. Thanks for making this cold wintry night just a little spooky!
I only remember this movie because I was looking through Gemma Atkinson's filmography.
Never watched it, I've seen the lemino video on it and that's about it.
Awesome! I asked you to cover this a while back thank you!
The Dyatlov Pass incident is among the most eerie cases of a group of people who perished under dire circumstances. The first time I learned about what occurred in 1959, I genuinely felt unsettled by the incident and what happened to the nine hikers. I have to say that all nine were trying to survive, hence the torn clothing, their bodies at random locations, and the tearing of their tent. It all points to the evidence of an avalanche and the people dying from hypothermia. However, the conditions of the other bodies were ghastly and straight out of a horror story.
As for the movie, I like the idea of making a horror movie centering on the incident with a more fanciful twist. But I would have loved it to be a psychological horror- being isolated from civilization and under the harsh elements could make an unsettling idea for a movie.
That last part, that's exactly what the video game, Kholat, does. It's a slow paced, surreal experience that perfectly showcases a cold, isolated environment. Even though it has supernatural elements, it's nothing like this movie and it's also incredibly vague as to what exactly is going on (or even what's real at all). It's not a conspiracy story and it feels more like it's using the Dyatlov Pass Incident as a jumping off point to tell its own story. The game isn't for everyone. It's a walking simulator with a lot of walking, occasionally sneaking around teleporting humanoid ghost-like beings, and memorizing specific GPS coordinates instead of the game doing it for you. It's also very long with a bigger focus on the chilling atmosphere rather than some mainstream game with cheap thrills (it barely has any jumpscares, if any at all).
The Monsters remind me of Dead Space necromorphs, the ones that fused with their stasis modules.
I loved this movie! I really never expected it to go anywhere close to where it went, thinking it would be more of a “then Aleksei went nuts and killed everybody!”. Boy, was I surprised! And even though it ended up totally batshit, I thoroughly enjoyed the madness. I’ve gone back and rewatched it twice, so I really must have. The biggest surprise from your analysis is that it was a Renny Harlin movie. Thanks for covering it!
As someone who has delved a bit into the Dyatlov Pass Incident rabbit hole I have to say that I'm quite torn on this tragic incident where several people lost their lives being turned into some cheap, sensationalized horror schlock. It feels really disrespectful to the victims who were actual human beings with loved ones that were deeply impacted by their untimely loss.
As such I'm gonna choose to ignore the more... Sensationalized approach taken here and choose to point people towards The Why Files video on it whose theory I think is the most logical that I've heard yet. Basically the conclusion they came to is that a rare type of avalanche occurred after the group had settled into the tent for the night(which is why they had things like broken bones, had to cut their way out of the tent from the inside, and weren't wearing proper protective clothing), and everything else that happened after was just these people doing their best, and sadly failing, to survive such a tragic natural disaster. It even gives you a pretty reasonable explanation behind the radiation found at the scene, but that's a bit too long to go into and I'd suggest watching the video yourself for anyone interested in more.
At least with Kholat, it feels more like it's using the incident as a jumping off point to tell its own story as opposed to taking the conspiracy angle.
The Dyatlov Pass incident is actually insanely easy to explain. Paradoxical undressing due to hypothermia, carbon monoxide inhalation caused by a faulty stove vent, most if not all of the men worked with radioactive materials, and animals scavenging the bodies explains absolutely everything that happened to the group.
I love your breakdowns, easily subscribed!
"Hoyever" (insert thunderous applause)
Thank you for uploading, Ryan Hollinger.
I love that they referenced Slaughterhouse Five where the main character is literally “unstuck in time.”
I missed the noeys and hoey yevers
I definitely recommend Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
By Donnie Eicher
I love this movie! It's one of the reasons I own a region-free Blu-ray player. I think it only got poor reviews because people were expecting actual answers out of it. As a movie that doesn't address the real mystery, it's so much fun!
Agreed, I love it too! It is pretty silly by the end, but I can't help it. I've always liked this movie.
The thing I hate the most about this “mystery” is the radiation. Everyone likes to mention it, but no one likes to mention the most important part about the radiation… it was only found on the clothes of the nuclear physicist in trace amounts in line with what he may have naturally had on him from his job…
12:30 Best game reviewer ever 😍
i do admire how much this movie went all in. it could have gone with a simple “a group of journalist-types become obsessed with a mystery and project their own desires onto the story when in reality it was just a simple disappearance” story, but no. time travel government experimentation mutant cannibal plot line
Thanks for the idea of what to watch next! Love me some Mandalore.
Didn't the physics engine Disney made for Frozen help finally prove the avalanche theory?
Isn't this the incident where they used tech from the animated movie frozen to reconstruct the event to determine the cause of death?
Yeah, and IIRC they concluded it was a certain kind of avalanche. (Slab avalanche I think.)
Yeah it was a theory, but if you looked into the incident more closely, you’d realize it falls flat.
They actually figured it out a few years back it was a special kind of snow shelf they camped on that can shift without looking disturbed.
every so often you'll review a movie i'd forgotten I've seen before because I popped it on in the BG while working. This is one lol
I recommend "le vourdalak", a french movie from this year based on a Russian fairytale. It makes a great companion piece to the new Nosferatu. Less epic, more small scale, but just as intimate.
When I watched this, it was one of those happy coicidences where I had NO expectations and was SO pleasantly surprised... It's a fun watch, so entertaining. Great video good sir!
Truth be told, I first learned of the Dyatlov Pass Incident from all those list videos I watched as a young teen on the Internet for the first time, and I would have sworn that it happened more recently than it did - the interest and devotion to it felt so FRESH. Learning that it happened in 1959 kind of feels like a bleak shock.
Thank you for the video my dude.
First heard of the Philedelphia Experiment from the UA-cam series Interface! Never thought I'd hear the name again haha
Here for my monthly dose of “however”
Ikr😂😂
The album Sorni Nai by Kauan is based on the dyatlov pass incident and it is absolutely beautiful and haunting! A must listen especially if you're going to get yourself a pair of Raycons
I watched this movie some time back and realized that his movie was meant for people like me who were familiar with the Philadelphia Experiment, the 1984 movie associated with the legend, and the Dyatlov Pass and its comparatives with a sprinkle of the 1980 film The Final Countdown and the 1980 movie The Return.
Merry Christmas to you too Ryan! 😂
As bizarre as this movie is, people have to remember that at the time when this movie and Kholat were released, this incident wasn't fully solved yet. It's like media that use The Bloop as the basis for their horror story (although if it was still used today, it would definitely go the conspiracy route of "that wasn't an iceberg.").
This video about a movie with a time-hopping twist releasing late is far funnier to me than it perhaps should be.
"...chasing Jenson and Holly, trying to steal their tongues" struck me as oddly funny. LOL
I watched this movie a looooooooong time ago when it first came out online. I agree that it dragged a little in the beginning, but from the point where they found the tongue (ew + why?) it had my attention - especially after I saw those two figures in the background. The time loop thing was kind of a given, but the creature feature was bonkers fun!
I can always count you to cover the weird, obscure, honestly bad but conceptually interesting horror gems
I saw this movie randomly on Netflix back in maybe 2012....it got me so into the dyatlov pass stuff for a while
Loved the grouping you did here with mothman and that other one. Would be fun to review more “urban-legend-Esque” movies down the road, for example the mentioned Chernobyl diaries
I loved this movie. Because of it, I watched the documentaries about the actual incident on tubi. "An Unknown Compelling Force" and "The Dyatlov Mystery". Both were very good.
Sounds like Devil's Pass was trying to outdo YellowBrickRoad, which came out three years earlier, and wasn't so successful.
Great video, Ryan. Hope you had a good Christmas and New Year, and I look forward to seeing what movies you review (hopefully a few of my favorites end up on your list).
Has anyone mentioned the bad made for TV film, the Philadelphia experiment, yet?
EYYY LEMMINO REFERENCE. IVE BEEN WAITING LIKE 16 YEARS FOR THE NEXT VIDEO
It always makes me very happy to hear Mandalore mentioned.
At least it's not a maze.
At least it's not a maze.
At least it's not a maze.
Just got a bunch of snow where I am, so this is very timely. I’d probably let the movie run in the background for a second watch if I had easy access to it, it’s a funky little found footage
My favorite conspiracy theory about this incident is that they stumbled upon some secret facility
The “eyes missing” thing in the real incident may be a misunderstanding. One of the early changes to a body after death is that the eye orbs deflate. The rest of the body may look “ok” but the eye sockets will gap, and look “empty.” Some see this state and describe it as “the eyes were missing,” but it’s not like the eyes were removed or anything….they just deflated as the fluid that kept the spherical stopped flowing.
Or it may be a mis-translation, with the Russian pathologist writing “the eye sockets are empty” to describe the above, but that got translated as “the eyes were gone” …then after a few re-tellings, it became “and the eyes were removed!!”
Quite likely. Others have suggested that animals may have simply come and pecked them out.
Great discussion of a bonkers but fun flick. It made me think of another, Entity, from 2012. A group go to Russia to investigate a huge missing person case. Also bonkers, no time travel, just supernatural. Entertaining, might be worth a look.
Another amazing video, thank you.
I love crazy conspiracy stories mixed with actual accounts on crazy stuff that happened, but this movie 💀 happy u still covered it, n hoping u cover Absentia sometime soon, it's still odd n kinda eerie & deals with other worldly beings
Horror in the High Desert is an interesting found footage mockumantary series it would be interesting to see you cover.
This is one of my most favorite movies. It’s a go to and I love it so much.
Hey Ryan, have you thought about covering the Ted the Caver creepypasta? First creepypasta written on Angelfire in 2001. There’s also a UA-cam adaptation called Ted’s Caving Journal done by Alex Archives that is also fantastic and very faithful to the story.
I watched this a few weeks ago and I love it! Absolutely recommend it
I remember netflix picking this for my sister & I to watch one later summer night years ago and I think the only reason we continued to watch it after the first 30 min.s was because seeing all the snow was tricking our brains into thinking we were cold. in the end it felt incredibly disrespectful to the people that lost their loves and the surviving families members to jump to worm-hole-time-traveling-cannibals.
14:50 Ryan Hollinger just now finding out about the Philadelphia Experiment (2012) is the best part of this entire video
Would love for you to cover (if you haven't already) Starry Eyes, Perfect Blue, Cuckoo, The Vast of Night, Pocessor, Love Lies Bleeding, The Invitation, Raging Grace
I could swear you reviewed this one, but I couldn’t find it or any other video that I might’ve mistaken it for. Which feels creepily fitting.
Still, great job.
Great pronunciation, and as always great video!
I do like this film, even if it’s lower tier, hoy-ever, I am a fan of found footage horror films! 😅
16:41 - Wow! I'm getting flashbacks from Gehenna: Where Death Lives! 🤔🤔🤔
I remember randomly checking this out on Prime years ago and being pleasantly surprised. I enjoyed the insane ending.
I also watch Mandalore Gaming! Hope you liked the Singularity video. Your vid was, as always, a banger! Hope you're having a good one!
The whole Igor thing… perhaps it is like Dostoevsky novels, where each character has numerous nicknames. I remember Raskolnekov getting called Roddy, Raski and others too.
I watched this video with a bunch of friends in our senior year of high school. An absolutely bonkers watch. So interesting revisiting it now as an adult, I appreciate this video.
2:05 I mean, there’s pretty good evidence that it was the Soviet union testing nerve agents