Russian Yeti: The Killer Lives (2014) Reviews

• I wish i new it was a movie before i bothered

  dannib892015-04-27

  I watched this thinking it was a documentary and throughout it im thinking, this seems so fake... the people don't appear to be telling real stories and the "video footage" was looking pretty staged as well.. AND the woodland noises are sounds I have heard before clearly computer made and the yeti cry is also something I just couldn't believe... then I came onto the internet to find out more and found this is a FICTIONAL MOVIE - NOT A DOCUMENTARY Cant believe I just wasted my time on this Thanks Animal Planet for putting on a shitty movie instead of a documentary like your meant to..... disappointed and waste of my time.

• Documented events... and more... to prove Yeti lives!

  littleawkie2015-06-10

  Contrary to a previous review, this IS a documentary of events that took place in 1959.* There are numerous references on various Internet sites with the same storyline. The photos in this documentary are compelling as to what was evidently a gruesome tragedy in the Ural Mountains in Siberia. Events are presented in chronological order of a multi-party expedition of experienced hikers, with a number of photos preserved from cameras retrieved at the destroyed campsite. As the title indicates, the director takes great steps to present his speculation that the nine hikers were confronted and killed by a Russian Yeti (known as a Menk in Russia). A tenth hiker was the sole survivor; he had fallen ill and turned back on the fifth day of the expedition that ended on day seven. Documents are presented that indicate there was government involvement prior to the actual reporting of the missing hikers. The director also includes photos, videos and interviews of sightings in the same region in recent years to support his view that the hikers did indeed lose their lives by a Yeti. I had recorded the show so to zip through all the commercials and the inevitable, and frequent, recapping. Since the events occurred in Russia, a good amount of the interviews required caption-reading. I watched the 2-hour show in a little over an hour. *BUT, there are also bits and pieces of blurry "reenactments" (and sound effects) that are obviously meant to strictly give the viewer an idea what horrors the victims must have experienced. Toward the end of the program, there is footage taken when the director and crew traveled to the site and had their own "experience"!

• The Blair Yeti Project

  vorkapich2019-03-24

  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...

• Zero Stars

  samsung6862019-02-19

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

• Another intentionally misleading fake documentary

  Ceronomus2019-04-24

  A load of BS, posing as a documentary, that is really all fake.