Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel   — 4K 03/24/26

Yet again, Deaf Crocodile opens doors to cinematic fantasy once blocked by politics and the vagaries of international film markets. This Estonian film is all but unknown here, despite coming from the reknowned authors Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. Detective Glebsky is trapped in a snowbound ski resort with a group of eccentrics that might have a good reason for being so weird — they may be aliens in disguise, stranded and having difficulty passing for human. Director Grigori Kromanov’s audio-visual treat features a remote mountaintop location and an impressive electronica / prog music score; the Sci-fi element remains 99% cerebral. Who knows who is human, alien, a robot, or a zombie?  Somebody give that Saint Bernard dog a lie detector test! On 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray from Deaf Crocodile Films.
03/24/26