Frozen double bill this weekend.
First up The Dyatlov Pass Incident (aka Devil's Pass) (2013).
The film of the same name is your usual found footage fare.
A group of young attractive people decide to make a documentary film based on infamous 'mystery' and after disappearing the footage they film is... found.
Cue tents being approached by mysterious unseen figures, the discovery of gory bits and nightvision sequences of a jumpy nature.
On the plus side there is some really beautiful snowy landscape sequences but in terms of story it's everything we have seen already.
Indeed the plot twist was so blatant I figured out about fifteen minutes in.
The real surprise is how low Renny Harlin has fallen.
He used to be the new James Cameron but he is certainly dragging his heels here.
3 orange lights.
Next Quintet (1979)
Somehow this film didn't ping on my radar earlier Robert Altman science fiction film starring Paul Newman...amazing treat...right....?
Wrong.
In the seventies we all thought a new Ice Age was inevitable and here it's really swinging.
The population of the emergency cities built to hold millions are down to a few thousand if that.
The remaining population are hooked on a religion/board game/murder ritual.
The one thing that seems to be thriving are the Doberman Pinscher population which patiently eats the corpses.
Nobody seems to be interested in eating the dogs.
I'm making it sound much more interesting than it is. Imagine Zardoz but without the goofy laughs or Alien 3 without the swearing, explosions and...aliens but with more dogs.
On the plus side there is some really beautiful snowy landscape sequences but in terms of story...well there isn't any.
The real surprise is how low Robert Altman has fallen.
Two out of five nihilistic pebbles.