D: Elise Robertson
C: Desiree Hall, Erik Stocklin, Colley Bailey, Adelaide Kane, John Kassir
A group of teens are picked off by one, after being stranded at a remote cabin, during the middle of a snow storm and it all seems to be connected to the true life tale of the "Donner Party".
Potentially interesting film concept torpedoed by routine plotting, routine execution. Overall, Donner Pass is a competently put together film, but there really isn't anything that stands out, or is all that memorable about the film. Donner Pass suffers from deja vu. From the characters, from the film's various scenarios, to how Donner Pass goes about trying to craft suspense & terror, it's all been done before and better at that. Sitting there watching Donner Pass, one wishes that the film would try to break out and try to do something different or even remotely original, but the film never takes any chances and plays it strictly by the numbers. At the end of the day, Donner Pass is just another horror film, another slasher without anything distinctive to separate it from the hundreds of other films out there that are similar to it.
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