Basically, idiots who have never hiked together before inexplicably take the long way over mountains to get to a canyon with a semi-precious mineral. I say that because it only took them about 2-3 days out of 16 to get from the canyon to the village - why didn't they just begin at the village and cut their time in more than half???
Anyway, this is a laughable attempt at storytelling although the first, standard part of the hiking was fine - no different than idiot Americans doing the same. But the rest was ridiculous and the ending just weird.
Find another movie if you want horror.
6.0Plot summary
Urmas Eero Liiv's feature film "Must alpinist" (Ghost Mountaineer) is a youth film with elements of horror which is based on real life events which took place during the Soviet era. It tells the story of an Soviet Estonian student hiking group which gets caught up in a series of scary events unfolding in wintry Siberia. The unpopular group leader Olle (Reimo Sagor),who becomes disappointed in his companions during the trip, disappears on the last day in the mountains. His rival, liberal-minded and adventurous Eero (Priit Pius) guides the descending hikers into a Buryate village on the mountain to seek help. A weird and insane chain of events is unleashed which seems to be orchestrated by the missing Olle. In a foreign land and among people they do not know, the hikers are faced with a task which they at first do not want to undertake and later are unable to tackle.
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Nice mountains, confused story - no horror
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A muddled mess
While showing promise, Ghost Mountaineer crumbles beneath the weight of an uneven script, incoherent plot and story, and jarring editing. This is really too bad because it's obvious that significant and sincere effort went into making this film; but in the end it is an effortful failure.
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Solid fun
This is quite a solid horror flick, much better than your usual teenage slasher. It has some very good photography and the young actors do a decent job. I enjoyed it quite a lot, even though it has its obvious misses and occasionally loses the track.