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best movie i've ever seen.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

We start with a re-imagining of the Donner party's problems in the mountains in 1846. The story is re-told in a bit of a different light.In the present, Thomas and four friends head toward his parents' cabin in the woods, which is coincidentally near Donner Pass. Three more people the group knows show up and bully their way in, indirectly making Thomas break his promise about occupancy.The final roster ends up being Thomas, Kayley, Mike, Nicole, Brody, Valerie, Derek, and A. J. During the first night's stay, there is an extra three inches of snow.Brody goes for beer, and does not come back. Thomas, Mike, and Kayley go look for him. Kayley thinks she sees him before they start out, but is not sure. They find Brody's car, somewhat broken up, with plenty of blood splatter inside the car, and some outside. Soon enough they find Brody with his guts ripped out. Could this possibly become a pattern?Meanwhile, Derek and Nicole discuss Nicole's date rape by A. J. I did not see how that was going to go forward without a confession (highly unlikely) or admissible video evidence. Derek and Nicole turn out to be rather cold blooded themselves, but are not the root of the problems.Does anyone survive this elimination derby? ------Scores------Cinematography: 7/10 Too dark much of the time.Sound: 7/10 Mostly OK, but was not the asset it might have been.Acting: 0/10 Terrible, stem to stern. More or less bad high school play level. Several of the actors look close to thirty, but act like bad tempered, entitled delinquents.Screenplay: 2/10 Standard teen elimination derby, with a weak link to the Donner party historical events. Neither interesting nor compelling. Even the gratuitous nudity had me wondering how it fit into the story. Of course, it did not.

Donner Pass has a well-known and macabre history -- the place where George Donner and his party got stuck in the winter of 1846 and were forced to resort to cannibalism to keep from starving. But what if it was not just history? This is your standard young people alone in a secluded area type of horror film. There is some attempt to connect it to the legendary Donner Party, but it is done in such a way as to seem gratuitous and really outside the overall tone and thrust of he film.If someone were to make a film inspired by the story or actually set at the time, I think it could work well. "Ravenous" was a great film, for example. This one, though, is nothing special.

The stuff the words 'straight to Blu Ray' was invented for.Four teens, Two very unlikeable, one likable, and one very quiet go to the quiet ones parents cabin for a weekend of being in an average film.One has a secret ans will be involved in a twist come the end scene. Guess which one? Before the main narrative starts, we are invited to a back story of the Donner group, a legend where bearded people ate each other. Apparently in the States, it's quite an infamous story.Here in England, it sounds like a road where you would get a kebab, only less entertaining.Back to the story, the horrible one invites her boyfriend and his friends, who are even more unlikeable than ever one else.Fortunately, someone is prowling the grounds and killing them off one by one.The thing is about Donner pass, is that it's been done literally hundreds of times before, since the early eighties, and now it's one of the most tired of sub-genres out there.Evil dead was ground breaking in this 'Teens in a cabin being menaced by the supernatural' genre i'm on about.This is by the numbers dirge, with some rancid performances from some Abercrombie and Fitch wannabes.It's horrible stuff, made on a budget nearly the same of 'The Descent', but with none of the thrill, or the intensity.People will see this though, because it has the appeal, and will make it's money back, which in turn will cause more of this poison to be made.

*** May contain spoilers! ***As others have mentioned, I watched "Donner Pass" without knowing that it was a horror movie instead of a documentary. I actually didn't realize until the guy came out of the woods. I too figured I would give it some latitude and see where it went.I have been a fan of the slasher genre for over 25 years. I'm forgiving of most slights and can be tolerant to occasional lapses.This movie is not terrible. I thought the acting was adequate for the genre (I've seen worse). I thought the storyline was a little thin given that there would be more people up in a ski resort area than "the next neighbour is miles away" that doesn't make sense logically. I appreciated the twists and turns in the movie including the date-rape-revenge motif.I have a problem with "snow horror." Maybe it's because we get actual winter in Canada with snow. Snow doesn't make for a good horror setting unless you're willing to use it as an extra character - isolating, unpredictable, cold - and this is where Donner Pass did use it well. But unlike bare ground, dirt, or gravel...snow leaves footprints. You can see when someone has been peeking in the windows - there is evidence! And characters that are blind to that just indicates shoddy writing. Sigh... Use it well or lose it entirely. Just my opinion, mind you.I agree with other reviewers who criticized the death at the hot tub. It felt forced and telegraphed and rather unrealistic that the guy didn't hear the splashing or the whimpering given that you could hear it from the underwater camera angle. Oh well...Overall a "not bad" horror film but as one of the characters in the movie said, "being not bad doesn't make you good."