Yeti: Curse of the Snow Demon (2008)

Simply Perfect

Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike

How sad is this?

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

How quickly was this grinded out? Here, a bunch of college athletes on a plane crash into the Himalayas. While waiting for a rescue party, they get stalked by a very unconvincing Yeti with bad teeth. Why can't they outrun it? Because it can jump long distances like a grasshopper. In the meantime, the crash survivors mostly behave in the stupid, irritating way one expects from impending horror movie victims. It includes one obnoxious character named Ravin, whose sole purpose is to have us cheer for his demise. There is a Donnor Party subplot about whether to eat the bodies of those who didn't survive the plane crash, but that's just filler material. It stars a bunch of non-stars, but has an appearance by Peter DeLuise as one of the rescue party, who's clearly just here to collect an easy paycheck. I hope he enjoyed spending it. If so, he's the only person who got any enjoyment from this lame, no-budget flick.

This plane-crash creature feature is fun to watch simply to count the Things People Would Never Do. For instance: 1. Search for matches when several fires are already burning 2. Leave clothes on dead bodies when live ones are freezing 3. Use one of 12 matches per day to start a fire and then let it go out at night These football jocks and their support staff are not scripted as stupid, but their actions prove otherwise. In fact, this bunch couldn't survive in a New York City snow storm, let alone the Himalayas. Of course, maybe the setting is supposed to be an alternate-universe Himalayas. I mean, the ground isn't so frozen that the characters can't dig a deep pit while the creature is asleep. (And would people really do this to trap a monster that can jump like a giant flea?) Most of the actors give this silliness their best effort, which only serves to make the on- the-cheap yeti costume and CGI more glaringly chintzy. The action does move along, and the incongruities never cease. So, sitting through this off-the-wall offering doesn't really have to be a curse.

B-movies are supposed to be bad, but it is only rarely that one discovers a gem of ridiculously bad, delightfully awful film making like Yeti. This is rated highly because, let's face it, who watches a movie like this if they don't LOVE horrible B-movies and expect and hope that it is awful?The plot is a rip-off of "Alive", with an airplane full of college football students crash-landing in the snowy mountains and having to struggle for survival (and decide whether to eat the bodies of their less-fortunate buddies who died in the crash.) However, unlike in "Alive", this movie of course has a horrible man-eating yeti who tries to kill, maim, eat, de-limb, and in general harm any human it encounters, just because. The characters are supremely stupid for college students; they're grossed out about eating rabbit for survival (or chicken, as the thing they're roasting obviously is...), don't know a big cave with a blood trail means a predator lives inside, want to eat corpses after only two days of surviving when they still have chocolate bars left to eat instead, and search for matches for hours instead of lighting a fire from the numerous pieces of burning wreckage ON-CAMERA while they're discussing how they're going to freeze to death.For gamer web series fans, my best comparison of the Yeti's looks is to that of a Moblin from the web parody series "The Legend of Neil". (Only whiter and much more hairy.) I laughed through the whole thing, and heartily recommend it to any fellow fan of awfully funny B-movies.

*** This comment contains spoilers ***Well, its the only yeti flick i have ever seen.I give this movie a 6 because it made me laugh so hard.Normally i do not care to much about that a Fantasy/Horror movie is not realistic in every detail. But Yeti:Curse of the Snow Demon is unrealistic and unlogical in every detail. Do not understand me wrong. This does not make this movie bad, it is what makes this movie entertaining. Because every new scene you will be totally amazed how wrong all that stuff is that the protagonists do to survive. They do not need a yeti. In reality they would be dead after one hour. I do not know where to start. At the beginning you see a historical scene from 1977 where a bunch of guys try to shoot a yeti. Then the pistol freezes(???) and the yeti eats them. Thats all, there is no more connection to the rest of the movie. Next scenes are making sure that you know the names of five members of a football player team which travels to japan for a match. Do not care that only two of them look like football players. The rest of them looks like math students.Then the plane crashes i a total unrealistic way. No wings, no tail, but still able to fly a few miles and land savly. For no special reason its seems important for every one to leave the wind protected rest of the plane. There is no fire or any other danger. Then the guys hanging around directly in front of the plane only dressed with jeans and t-shirts. And yes, they survive that for hours in the middle of the himalaya at -4.0 °F. The best thing is. Everybody who is injured is doomed to die. Even if only his leg is broken. There is no rescue effort for them and even if the team starts a fire, the injured have to sit in the plain and freeze to death. Again with no special reason. For example the injured pilot gets his scene where he tells where to search for the radio, then everybody leaves without a comment and he is free to die alone :).Later you will see a burned corpse from the plane crash. Which is a bit mystical because the plane did not burn and every other corps is perfectly unburned.But the best thing what i have ever seen in movies is the unbelievable rabbit chicken scene. They hunt a rabbit. Then they cook and eat a chicken. I do not know that, but is it a problem to buy a rabbit at an American supermarket if you need one for you're movie?And there is much, much more. Look forward to a movie with riped of arms used as a splint for a broken leg, fire which burns with wet wood, storms which you can not see (everybody is talking about the storm. There is no storm in the whole movie), cannibalism after two days without food, cutting frozen flesh with a piece of glass, having perfect makeup after a plane crash and five days in the woods, burning freezed corpses to ashes with a stick ... i do not know where to stop. There is no scene which is not totally wrong.Oh by the way ... the yeti looks a bit more realistic then King Kong (1933). (Yes, it is a guy in a halloween costume)If you are having fun with watching movies just to laugh about how bad they are, then its the perfect movie for you. I have enjoyed it.