Maybe it's something about the snow, ice and cold. I seem to be drawn to movies about people struggling in bad weather. I'm also a sucker for stories of strange occurrences, disappearances, and conspiracies. I also have a fondness for Horror flicks. "Devil's Pass" should have been a slam dunk for me. And you know what? It was. The plot concerns a group of college students who follow the path into the Ural mountains that a group of hikers traveled back in 1959. Everyone in that original expedition died and to say they died in horrifyingly odd fashion would be an understatement. These deaths actually occurred and the mystery, known as "The Dyatlov Pass Incident", remains unsolved (and scary) to this day. "Devil's Pass" starts out with a lot of exposition and is even a little slow until the final 30 minutes. But then all Hell breaks loose. The story posits an explanation for the original hikers' deaths and then takes a left turn into insanity. Skip the rest of my thoughts here if you want to avoid spoilers...I absolutely loved that the finale included "The Philadelphia Experiment", time travel/wormholes, Nightcrawler-style teleportation, and some Soviet Union military conspiracy thrown in for good measure.

The film has its moments, but with too many convoluted plot twists, the experience does become more than a little wearying.

Good first half, the second half is just like any other "horror" movie.