10 Horror Movies With Amazing Concepts But TERRIBLE Execution

The Dyatlov Pass incident is one of the most fascinating and eerie unsolved mysteries of modern times, where nine Soviet hikers died in Russia's Ural Mountains in 1959 under peculiar circumstances, with the authorities concluding that they were killed by a "compelling natural force."

And so, a found footage film about a group of contemporary college students who visit the area to investigate the fate of the hikers had a ton of potential - the remote location and creepy folklore associated with the incident doing a ton of the heavy lifting.

Yet director Renny Harlin takes this riveting idea and mutates it into a staggeringly generic found footage romp containing not a single worthwhile original idea. 

Clinging to the most worn-out tropes of the found footage movie while saddling the audience with gratingly obnoxious characters, this is basically a low-energy, snow-topped retread of The Blair Witch Project rather than an intriguing attempt to meld fact and fiction.