The very much under-appreciated The Dyatlov Pass Incident was a documentary and found footage film about a group of American students who go to investigate the real life Dylatov Pass incident, in which, in 1959 nine ski hikers were found dead by the Ural mountains, their deaths so strange the coroners declared the cause "a compelling natural force". The compelling mythology of this incident has been strangely left untouched by the media with Renny Harlin's the only film directly inspired by the disappearance. Since Lost there's been an odd-shaped hole in the market for a show with a baffling mythology maybe something based around this real life tragedy could work, if not can we at least get something better than a found footage B movie? The characters in this movie are horrible shallow stereotypes of American teens played by B movie actors who mainly come from soap operas, and frankly every section of this movie bar the mythology behind this real life tragedy can be scrapped. There are various theories to work on, which go from extraterrestrial activity to the Russian government playing with science they shouldn't, and those strands would fit the agenda for episodes, and there's no need to continue on the found footage path.
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