Russian Yeti: The Killer Lives

In this era of overwhelming fake news, this production is just adding its lot to an already huge pile of badly misleading movies, with potentially devastating consequences on the lesser educated viewers. The problem is not so much that it builds its storyline/narrative on a collection of totally unscientific approaches, but rather that some viewers will actually believe all this crap!! I bet that some will take it for granted that a "brilliant" reporter actually came across some hard evidence that the Russian Yeti not only actually lives, but that it also kills people "when cornered or threatened". The movie itself is pretty well made, with all the stereotypes of what you would expect from a real documentary, but the succession of pseudo-evidence and the numerous shortcuts taken to reaching conclusions are just a pure insult to science and intelligence. I would strongly recommend that a big headline be put in the opening credits to warn the audience that it is a FICTIONAL DOCUMENTARY. This would at least prove the director's willingness to stay true to his/her own intent.

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...

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

That translator was pretty hot!!! Didn't realize it was a movie before I started watching....

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