The Ghost mountaineer - Must alpinist

English (Peaks eesti filmile ikka mingi hetk eesti keelse arvustuse ka tegema/I should do Estonian at one point as it's an Estonian film)

Estonian films have really gone a long way in the recent years - whereas in my teen years every Estonian film was a drama about drugs, sex, violence and spoiled youth mixed in with every kind of swear words imaginable now we are beginning to have interesting captivating stories that aren't all the same and there is even a variety of different genres! Truth to be told - Estonian films weren't always bad, quite the opposite, there are some pretty cool and solid films made before I was born, but somehow there was a serious downfall when I was young.

This was the first time I've seen an Estomian horror film before and I loved this one! I've voiced it before how I always seem to care more for those stories that are based off real life and what's scarier than a horror film based on real life events? Some foreign critics have claimed that this movie is kind of stuck between genres - not quite horror, but not quite thriller or mystery either. I would argue that real life is never of one genre and that only adds believability to the whole plot. I think the mixing of genres made the film more layered and interesting. The dream sequences were cool and added that element of horror while the fact that they were just dreams meant that the whole thing was still believable. It was a great movie with some of the horror added by the realization of  how scary the Soviet times really could be once you accidentally got in the way of authority. There was constant suspense and thrill.

I also feel the need to voice my stance about whether Priit Pius looks more like Benedict Cumberbatch or Matt Damon. Seeing as that has become a real question with the help of foreign critics. I'm not sure about Matt Damon, but from certain angles he does indeed look like Benedict a bit. Well decide for yourself

Priit Pius

Benedict Cumberbatch