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A continuing quest here at WildSnow.com world headquarters is to review every movie ever made with a snow avalanche in it. We were getting our weekend flicks at the vid store when I spied what promised to be a grade B cheese fest of bad acting and lame action, and I wasn’t disappointed.
“Avalanche, Nature Unleashed” is so bad I was amazed it made it to release. Plot is basic (at least it exists): Ski resort somewhere in the world (Ural) has a bunch of snow above it. Somehow the snow is threatening to “super avalanche” and basically wipe out everything. One women who’s some kind of avalanche scientist figures this out by digging a snow pit, then listening to and tasting the snow in the pit (I kid you not). Everyone is skeptical but most are gradually convinced as various avalanches rain down, including one started by pesky snowmobilers. Finally the Super Avalanche comes, and buries the avalanche scientist and her snowmobile guide lover in a bar where they wait for rescue. You’ll probably never see this many avalanches in one movie, and you’ll be amazed at how long they take to get from start to finish.
I thought the Roger Corman films “Avalanche Ally” and “Ski Troop Attack” took the lemon prize, but this one is ten times worse.
Get out the popcorn and beer (lots of the latter, or perhaps vodka) and enjoy the worst avalanche movie ever made! (And don’t blame me if you feel like you wasted your money, blame the beer.)
WildSnow.com publisher emeritus and founder Lou (Louis Dawson) has a 50+ years career in climbing, backcountry skiing and ski mountaineering. He was the first person in history to ski down all 54 Colorado 14,000-foot peaks, has authored numerous books about about backcountry skiing, and has skied from the summit of Denali in Alaska, North America’s highest mountain.
