The Snow Creature (1954)

I love this movie so much

It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

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.

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.

The First Time I Saw This Film I Said That It Was Very Poorly Made, And It Was True, They Could Have Done Somethings Better Like: 1)Better Camera Angles2)Better Script3) And A Better MonsterBut Then I Thought, Well It's Just A B-Movie It's Just A Low Budget Film, But It Was Entrainment.PLOT:The Movie Begins With Two Scientists, They Are In The Mountains Searching For Some Plant, But Then Every Thing Goes Wrong: The Yeti Attack Some Members Of The Crew And The Members Of The Crew Take The Two Scientists As Prisoners, Then They Finally Capture The Yeti And Then The Scientists are Liberated And The Whole Crew Goes To The Town, And Then One Of The Scientists Takes The Yeti To His Country...I Won't Say More, If You Are Curious Or You Just Want To See The First Movie About The Yeti Give It A Watch!PS: You Can Watch It Online For Free

"The first days were uneventful; monotonous and tedious." This is Dr. Fran Parrish (Paul Langton) as he treks through the Himalayas searching for plant life. Soon we expect the monotony to evaporate as a Yeti attacks and carries off a village girl.But, we are soon disappointed as we go on a tedious and monotonous trek up the mountains in search of the Yeti. At least when we are trekking through the jungle, we have animals to look at. Trekking through the Himalayas, we have only snow and ice.But success eventually comes and the Yeti is captured and taken back to Los Angeles. Unfortunately, it escapes, and our tedious monotonous search begins again. We end up in the sewers of Los Angeles. I would have thought given the Yeti's proclivity for women, that he would head for Hollywood in search of starlets, but, alas, it was not to be.The entire film was uneventful, monotonous and tedious.