Leofwine_draca There was a wave of films about the abominable snowman back in the 1950s and this is one of the weaker efforts. A typical B-movie, it takes an age for the film to get going and when the Yeti finally does make an appearance it's just an ordinary guy in a very poor-fitting monster suit. A cast of wooden and cliched characters spend a heck of a long time discussing various pressing and non-pressing issues before the snowman is shipped off to Los Angeles, where it escapes from cold storage and goes on a low rent rampage. This reminded me of the Lon Chaney Jr. vehicle THE INDESTRUCTIBLE MAN and is of a similar quality.

Michael_Elliott The Snow Creature (1954) * 1/2 (out of 4)Two American explores are tracking up the mountains near Tibet when their guides decide they'd rather chase the mythical Yeti. At first the Americans think that the locals are just being silly but once they have proof of the creature they decide to capture it. Once captured, the two bring it back to America where it escapes so the hunt is on.THE SNOW CREATURE was the first film dealing with a Yeti so that might get some people curious enough to check it out but sadly this film is pretty darn bad. Director W. Lee Wilder really had zero to work with here because it appears the budget was so low that they couldn't actually shoot on location, which is expected but what makes this film so bad is the fact that the budget appears to be so low that they did nothing but add dialogue scenes.The majority of the 71 minute running time simply has characters sitting around in fake looking caves or silly looking offices talking about the snow creature. They talk about whether it's real or fake. Whether they should kill or capture it. Whether it's man or beast. They've got so much dialogue packed into this thing I really do wonder how big the screenplay was. What's worse is the fact that none of these conversations are interesting and they're certainly shot in a poor way. There's no energy or power to be found in any of these scenes.The costume of the snow creature certainly isn't anything great but it at least looks decent in the few scenes that we see it. Since they did have a costume, all the dialogue scenes are even more shocking. I mean, I'd understand a monster movie not having too much of the monster because they couldn't afford the effect but THE SNOW CREATURE has a costume yet instead of more monster footage it's just all dialogue. THE SNOW CREATURE could have been much better than what it is.

Red-Barracuda In this creature feature a group of botanists stumble upon the yeti while on an expedition in the Himalayas. They bring it back to the U.S. and needless to say it escapes and creates panic.The Snow Creature is only a barely adequate monster movie. It starts quite well with the scenes in the snowy mountains being at least a bit interesting but once the action is relocated to America, it all becomes a little more underwhelming. But that's not to say that even the earlier scenes are up to that much because overall there is a definite lacklustre feel to this one. Quite a lot of the problem is that the abominable snowman himself is not a very well presented monster. He's threatening enough in a one-dimensional way to be fair, as he simply goes around murdering people for no reason other than he is evil. But the footage of him is often the same recycled material, often of him emerging/retreating into the shadows. We never really see his features other than the fact he is extremely tall; while he seems to do a lot of his killing off-screen too. So this results in a pretty sluggish film being dragged down further by a lame monster. It was helmed by W. Lee Wilder who was the brother of Billy Wilder who was of course one of the most critically revered directors of his day.

dbborroughs Expedition to the Himalayas finds the yeti and brings him back to Los Angeles where he runs amok. Really awful monster on the loose film suffers from a variety of sins, not the least of which is a monster that kind of looks like a man on ski pants with a woolly shirt and mask. Its a mess. In the right frame of mind and with some wise cracking friends this can be a really fun film, but the idea that anyone is going to sit and watch this is likely to curl your toes. Assuming you don't turn it off because its bad odds are you're going to fall asleep because its rather dull. This was the first discount video tape I ever bought and it was also the first film I ever fell asleep to while I was watching it. This is for bad movie or yeti movie fans only