Scarecrow-88 In a plot quite similar to Alive (with a slight alteration in a few abominable snowmen), a collegiate football team and coaching staff (and crew that helps with the team) are on a plane bound for Japan. It crashlands in the Himalayas where a few Yeti reside (the film, for a bit, features supposedly one creature with a few more revealed later). While a few players are dead due to the crash (or even before as the plane was coming apart due to a serious storm), eventually the Yeti gets in on the action to kill them off (and eat them). With little food or resources, star quarterback Peyton Elway (Marc Menard, quite a pretty boy with pearly whites and blonde hair; he has the misfortune of having a first and last name from star quarterbacks) obeying his coach (Ed Marinaro) who tells him to make sure to lead and help the survivors, must somehow keep everyone safe from harm…with a blood thirsty/ flesh hungry Yeti on the rampage, good luck with that! Unlike many Syfy creature features, "Yeti" carries a serious tone and offers very little in the way of the tongue-in-cheek approach or high camp. The creature costume is decent enough, and the emphasis on gore is of the severed limbs prop department variety. The hopping Yeti moments are ultimately when the film is at its hokiest. Peyton's flirty love interest is Sarah (Carly Pope), and she is eventually (obviously) kidnapped by a Yeti and taken off to his cave. Towards the beginning, two of the party go to find a radio box to call for help…Garcia (Kris Pope) gets the "everything that could possibly go wrong does" developments of the film. Garcia has two legs that are broken after a bum fall, sees a friend brutally attacked by the Yeti, treks back after days of going through near starvation and succumbing to the cold only to be shot in the face with a flare gun! Ravin (Adam O'Byrne) is the chief antagonist among the cast just due to his douchebaggery. He's the guy that is always irritating everyone, asserting his opinion on the rest of the cast with them always on edge. He might have a point about waiting on help and needing to go and find it instead, but Ravin does so in such a hostile way (voice raised, insistent and persistent on the group doing as he believes is right) it just causes tension in an already anxious situation. It certainly makes Peyton's life more difficult. In the meantime, two rescuers, Sheppard (Peter DeLuise) and Fury (Ona Grauer) are trying to locate the party.The film goes it straight. It is your basic fight for survival plot. The reveal of other Yeti isn't all that surprising, really. The leanings toward eating from the dead isn't new since "Alive" was notorious for it, or the fact that the plot just changes the players from soccer to football. The leads are okay, and the monster isn't all together silly-looking (which is a plus, really). The idea of not leaning on CGI for the monster was the right decision in my opinion. This doesn't do anything innovative or new. It is your garden variety monster-attacks-humans flick. And , to my disappointment, the sexy Crystal Lowe is positively wasted in a nothing secondary role while Brandon Jay McLaren (Harper's Island) is given a little to do but not much as the guy that is often in the middle of the running feud between Ravin and Peyton.

Diane Ruth From gifted director Paul Ziller comes a starkly horrific motion picture that depicts a college football team fighting for survival against an abominable snow creature on the landscape of a frozen hell. Working from a superb screenplay by Mark L. Lester Rafael Jordan, Ziller captures the individual struggle of each group member and the personal dynamics between the characters in some sensitively observed sequences that will have audiences asking themselves, "what would I do?" Are personal integrity and human values surrendered when the fundamentals of basic survival are at stake? Profound questions indeed and this film does not shy away from asking them. The special effects are stunning, the suspense incredibly intense, and the horror unrelenting as these fragile individuals are tested to the limits of endurance, facing a terror of unimaginable power.

TheLittleSongbird Yet: Curse of the Snow Demon I was not expecting much from at all, but while it is far from a good movie let alone a great one I have seen far worse. I give it credit for some alright acting in alternative to the hilariously bad quality I usually see, some scenes like the opening crash where effort is made to show some genuine fright and suspense and that the story is reasonably well paced. However, the monster does look terrible and didn't scare or thrill me at all, and while there is evidence of suspense and feeling in the opening crash the scene sadly suffers from cheap effects and that it is choppily edited. The script is often hilariously cheesy, the story may be paced decently but even that isn't enough to cover the over-familiarity of it all and the increasing stupidity of one too many scenes, and the characters give meaning to the phrase "cliché, cliché, cliché" and annoying ones at that. In conclusion, far from a must-see but not a must-avoid either. 4/10 Bethany Cox

Elswet First off, I'm not here to dog this movie. I find it totally enjoyable in spite of the poor production quality. The acting herein is about as abominable as the monster stalking them, although the monster itself is quite well done...impressively well done, at that. He actually looks kind of other-worldly, like an alien family on vacation landed in the Himalayas and while dad was out taking a ... attending to nature's call, Spot got loose and they just didn't have time to hunt him down. That, or he's the Caucasian brother of the Wishmaster. I haven't decided which.Actually, this seems to have been filmed somewhere in snow country, yes, but more likely Canada somewhere than China anywhere. The trees and vistas say Canada to me, and it's okay that the set area never takes on the look or feel of uber-coldness one might expect to find in the Himalayas of China. It's a Sci-Fi Channel movie, so we can forgive the lack of location.Further, apparently (as we have just established) Sci-Fi directors do not travel often, as they are not aware that commercial planes fly above weather like what is featured herein and the subsequent crash actually would not have happened. But as I said, it's a Sci-Fi Channel movie so we must forgive a few things.The movie is pretty graphic at times, and rotates between "Alive" about the Donner Party, "Predator" about the alien in the woods, and any bad wushu movie where they fly about on wires. The Yeti apparently can leap about like Spiderman...or Super Mario...remember? "Run faster! Jump higher! Live longer!" Also, the Yeti has missed his teddy bear. He's searched high and low for it, but cannot seem to make a cadaver work. Poor Yeti! You can't help but feel sorry for it. It has survived and evolved thousands of years only to succumb to severe teddy bear loss. He's missed his bear. Or maybe it wants to mate, but that thought is BANISHED! Do ya hear me? Well, it does seem to be an unmated male. REBANISHED! And it's superhuman. Well, it's not human...it's super-Yeti! But then again, what's normal-Yeti? I don't know, but he has a definite Michael Meyers quality that is completely unsettling. And he's got this fabulous way of cleaning his fur. FABulous Dahlink! It's spotlessly white at times when it SO shouldn't be. He's fastidiously superhu-...super-Yeti.All in all? This was a lot of fun to watch, has some great kills and a few honest plot elements. In spite of the horribly gravel-like production style, this is actually quite entertaining. I can't help wondering if they're planning on another one? It rates a 6.0/10 on the M4TV Scale.It rates a 4.4/10 on the Movie Scale from...the Fiend :.