Donner Pass (2011)
1/10
Run of the mill stuff....
27 April 2012
Warning: Spoilers
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.
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