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Thanks for the memories!

i must have seen a different film!!

Good movie but grossly overrated

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

We're off to Tibet for a Himalayan expedition in search of THE SNOW CREATURE. Within minutes, the American scientists and their Sherpa guides are attacked by the beast (aka: a grown man upholstered in faux fur seat covers)! A Sherpa wife is abducted, and the team is on the monster's trail. Destination: Yeti-ville. Horrible death ensues, since the killer carpet sample prefers his privacy. Events unfold, the creature is rendered unconscious, and transported back to the States in a refrigeration unit (aka: a combination outhouse / phone booth). Shockingly, once in Los Angeles, the abominable snow-dude escapes and goes on a rampage. This is mostly shown by using the same footage of the Fuzzy One, backing away. Or, by reversing the shot, he's coming at us! This "technique" is used about a dozen times! The whole mess leads to the big, non-exciting, sewer system finale. Interminably dull and slllowww, This movie never quite pulls out of its own lackadaisical nosedive, but a single viewing should cause a minimum of cranial scarring...

NOTES: Myles Wilder is W. Lee Wilder's son. According to the pressbook, the Yeti was played by Dick Sands (IMDB has Lock Martin, unconfirmed). COMMENT: Despite all the abundant ploys of financially stressed "B" picture-making (including a copious amount of obvious library footage, and the repetition, freeze-framing and reversal of numerous shots - one brief clip of the "monster" advancing towards the camera is spliced into the picture no fewer than twenty-one times); despite the laughably inept make-up and costuming of the "monster" who is so phony he will scare not even the most panicky child; despite (or maybe because of) the lack of feminine interest, The Snow Creature still has a certain appeal. It is most attractively photographed (particularly the scenes in the sewers) by Floyd "High Noon" Crosby, and - with the exception of the points noted above - not too ploddingly directed by that experienced, exploitation cost-cutter W. Lee Wilder. Aside from Dick Sands, the cast isn't half-bad either.OTHER VIEWS: The Snow Creature is one of the tamest we have ever met with, he is so obviously a tall actor in a fur-moulted suit that has seen better days. Both script and direction show occasional flashes of promise, but the film's Z-grade budget and corny dialogue defeat any attempt at imaginative handling or suspenseful plotting. The same shot of the snow creature advancing into the camera is endlessly repeated - and it wasn't a very menacing shot in the first place! Still, the acting is serviceable and the film's short running time and numerous changes of scenes lend it a rapid enough pace. Horror fans will probably accept it in supporting slots. There is no femme interest. - JHR writing as George Addison.

"The Snow Creature" (1954) is a black & white picture notable as the first film to address the topic of Bigfoot or, in this case, Yeti. The atmospheric beginning segues into a relatively dull story about a fake-looking Yeti brought to America from the Himilayas, which ends up languishing in customs while officials debate whether or not the creature is a passenger or cargo, i.e. animal or human. I'm not making this up. Then the creature gets loose in the city a la "King Kong." "The Snow Creature" is worthwhile only for historical reasons or as an interesting period piece and people smitten with the Sasquatch legend.The film runs 71 minutes and was shot in Bronson Caves, Bronson Canyon, Griffith Park, Los Angeles, California, USA GRADE: D+

A mountain climbing expedition encounters a big freaking snow monster who watches them from above the snow-line while they take pictures of weeds and freeze in their wind-battered tents at extreme altitudes.... oooh, funnn! Later, one of these schmucks captures the beast, straps him to a tarp, and sends him to Los Angeles in a goofy icebox, but some lame cop murders it before it can find an apartment and become part of the community.Director W. Lee Wilder's 'abominable snowman' flick. Clumsy and incredulous, but concomitantly the most trenchant film of Wilder's career.