Russian Yeti: The Killer Lives

If you liked Blair Witch, you will like this! Just like The Blair Witch, this is a story that sucks you in, has poorly lit video, wavering flashlights, and weird noises no one can explain. I was excited to watch this. This story had intriguing facts and even more intriguing pictures but unfortunately it digressed into darkness and wavering flashlights - I felt like I was at a rave by the time they were done in the forest. However, it kind of brought me back around toward the end with more pictures and video (although grainy) and some more factual tidbits. All in all, I could have done without all of the theatrics. I would have been happier if I had just researched this topic online and kept with the facts.

Not a real documentary, mostly speculation. No real Dyatlov Pass historian or researcher would believe this dreck.

It was an interesting and often nerve-tingling video, but is not a documentary. A documentary is simple. It's right there in the word...DOCUMENTary..... A film production team DOCUMENTS the facts and the history concerning whatever subject they wish to share on film. They do not CREATE drama that is not real. They do not manipulate facts and history to help the sale of their documentary. They do not pretend to have frightening aural encounters with their subject to heighten the intrigue and tension in their film. Unexplained noises must mean the Yeti is on the prowl, right?! NOT !! This is a fairly well made dramatic thriller posing as a documentary. Docu-fallacy might have been a better description of this video. Oiiii, I mean, C.MON !!!! For the hundredth time, a video documentary crew has the amazing luck of walking right into an aural encounter with their sought after mythical creature. A creature that has never been proven to exist, alive or dead, ever !!! I am betting these documentarians could find a needle in a football stadium-sized haystack, in under two hours ! WHY NOT !!! They just did it on film !!!!

I,am watching this today on travel channel 1-26-20 I find this really interesting. I think it's cool they have Kevin Conroy who is the voice of batman doing the narrating of the documentary. I think it's interesting that the hikers that went missing in Russia that the documentary is about had close birthday's it's not mentioned in the documentary but if you look up the deotlov pass you will see it

Another pseudo-documentary from the same file cabinet as the program that "explored" the question about mermaids (and mermen) being real. At the end of the program people are running around a forest at night, using flares to cast shadows, hearing "mysterious" sounds. Very atmospheric, but it tells us bupkis about whether such a thing as a yeti actually exists.

Note the IMDB info - this is all staged, "with actors, not real people."

Why does Animal Planet exploit the credulousness of an audience by presenting these pseudo-documentaries without disclaimers? Even Orson Welles told the radio audience that his broadcast of The War of the Worlds was a dramatization, although many people missed the intro and thought they were hearing a news broadcast.

So, approach anything done by Animal Planet with caution...