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I suppose you should approach this stuff with an open mind, but I have difficulty doing that. Those words written, my expectations for this were, quite frankly, pretty low. I knew that it was a 1954, low-budget production. Therefore, I was prepared to tolerate the cheap old costumes and over-abundance of no-action dialogue. I wanted to subject myself to this fillage of time. Sure, some of the responses were totally unrealistic. But, looking past all the negatives, I still found some pros that, in my opinion, offset the anticipated cons. Some of that dialogue, to me, actually represented a try. Maybe I give it a (barely) passing grade because even this simpleton could follow the extremely UNcomplex plot: Scientist captures living snow creature in Himalayas and is able to return it to LA, where it escapes. Perhaps I would feel ripped off if I spent too much money to purchase a tape of this movie. But having seen it on satellite TV - which I think of as a more-INdirect flow of my dollars - my concern was mostly for my time, which I did not find totally wasted.

Some of the Himalayan scenes are interesting. There is a conflict as to who is running the show. It's typical of Westerners to try to run roughshod over their "inferiors." Anyway, the Yeti is out there and if we bring him (or her) back, we can make a bundle. Everything works out pretty well and they order his refrigerated box. The problem is the customs guys don't know whether he's human or not. In most respects he is. He lives in a family setting. He has tools. He walks upright and is built pretty much like most homo sapiens. What are his rights? Nobody says anything about just barging into his domain and killing off his family. So, like every good monster movie (or bad one), the "guy" gets loose in the city and wastes a couple of people. What should he do? He's trying to survive. While there are issues that keep this interesting, it doesn't sustain itself very well. There are unanswered questions that are forgotten as soon as the Yeti escapes from his box. A film with some courage might have gone beyond what it does, but money or talent got in the way. The monster looks pretty much like a man with a beard (we never get a good look at him in daylight). Pretty poor with a few perks.

I went on Wilder bender and watched three of his movies in a row, but the bender stopped here. The yeti suit is bad and to make matters worse most of the footage of the yeti is the same shot used over and over again and run backwards and forwards to make him step in and out of the light and then sometimes freeze frame him in place. The copy I saw was so poor it was at times hard to tell if it was the Yeti or just one of the other characters wearing a furry hat.

In some wide shots, the Yeti at least looks really tall and they seem to have designed some kind of a monkey butt type butt. Then again most Yeti suits are bad, this one is of a kind.

But wow this movie is certainly among the worst of the pre-Sci-Fi channel bigfoot movies, all of which are the worst of a lousy genre and unfairly treated monster. One of the riddles of film. Why is it there are virtually no good bigfoot movies?

The movie turns into sort of The Third Man with the police chasing the Yeti around in the Sewers, here boring shots get repeated and some lighting gear gets into one shot.

Acting from the leads is OK and the opening Tibet section is slow but kind of decent, when the Yeti gets to America it's all over though.

Scene in the meat locker is one of the few effective scenes. Director of photography Crosby who shot Corman's good films can't do much with this one. It's not good, then gets bad when Yeti hits the streets. The suit does look like a poodle and it seems like they forgot to shoot any footage of it then had to reuse stuff to be able to edit the scenes together properly.

Big Wilder mis-step this go round.

This film really isn't all that bad. The photography is moody and atmospheric. The music is sometimes quite good. Director W.Lee Wilder occasionally shows some visual flair. The cast is at worst adequate. The snowman is another story. It it simply a very tall man wrapped in what looks like rabbit fur. Granted, director W. Lee Wilder tries to keep the snowman hidden in the shadows most of the time. But when he is seen full view it looks amazingly unconvincing. Had this film not employed such a poor snowman costume, it probably would have been regarded as a slightly better than average low budget early fifties monster picture.

The Snow Creature, half man, half monster. The snow creature monster's costume is a bad attempt to make him look scary and half monster. All it really does is make it look like a man going out trick or treating on Halloween. I think most of the acting was ok. It had a couple of small twists that were unexpected and I think that the second half of the movie outdid the beginning. I rated this movie a 5 but it barely made that 5. If I could, I would have called it a 4+. I bought this dvd expecting it to be a bad movie and was surprised to find that it was actually better than expected. I thought it was going to be worse. While looking back at the whole movie, I must say that I liked it.

I've just watched The Snow Creature for the first time and thought it wasn't too bad, despite being a grade Z movie which stands out a mile.

An expedition travels to the Himalayas to search for Yetis and plan to bring one back to America. They come across a family of them in a cave, two parents and young. After the mother and child are killed, the dad is captured and brought to Los Angeles, but he escapes and goes on the rampage, murdering people who get in his way. He then meets his death in the Los Angeles Storm Drains after being tracked down by coppers.

Despite the ultra low budget, this isn't as bad as you may think with some fairly creepy music to help it along. Worth checking out.

Rating: 2 and a half stars out of 5.

Most viewers and reviewers can't think of bad enough things to say about this film, and some of their barbs are justified: the film does take too long to get going, and the title creature (when he finally appears) is not an inspired creation. However, the film does offer certain rewards to patient viewers. The black & white photography is much better than one would expect, particularly the clever use of light and shadow during the film's second half. The use of the soundtrack shows imagination also. Case in point: the scene where the creature pays a late night visit to a cold storage warehouse, and is glimpsed briefly moving between the hanging sides of beef. There's no screaming or loud background music, only faint street sounds. Somehow, the silence of this scene makes it much more unsettling than it would have been otherwise.

This film lacks just about everything. A good story, a cool monster, a decent actor--all are absent from this baby! It is really a test of endurance to see if you can get through it. I picked it up because A. It was cheap and 2. it had a snow monster! Snow monsters are my personal favorite, which is tragic considering that nobody makes movies about them. In fact, the best screen Yeti yet is the Wampa from Empire Strikes Back . .. and it wasn't even a Yeti! The special effects are so terrible that the cornball director used the same exact shot of the monster over and over and over again. Nevertheless, three scenes stand out in my mind: 1. An attack on a female victim in a black alley 2. The monster seen weaving in and out of cattle carcasses in a meat plant 3. Coolest of all, this scene shows the monster trying to break out of the container that brought him to the US from the so-called Himilayas. Check out Wilder's Phantom from Space for a better time.

"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+

This movie is just so boring and action-less that it's hard to watch. I could point out all the things that don't make sense but that's a waste of time. Never see this.

It is insulting to humans as well as Yeti creatures.

A live Yeti get captured and the Himalayan government hands him over to two Americans.

Give me a break!

There is no way any government would let their lovable Yeti be taken out of their country.

And of course, there is no worldwide Press that runs to the Himalayas to photograph the captured Yeti.

When the Yeti is flown to Los Angeles, only 2 reporters are waiting to interview the two idiots that captured the Yeti.

Give me a break...again!

The whole airport would have been shut down with reporters waiting to see the Yeti.

Then the Yeti escapes and is finally done in at the end of the movie.

Why didn't they just do him in at the beginning of the movie so I didn't have to waste my time watching this horrible movie?

And the Yeti didn't even do anything wrong.

He is minding his own business in the Alps with his wife and child and once in while stealing a woman from the local village for whatever reason and the next thing he knows, he is in Los Angeles running for his life.

All Yeti's should boycott this movie.

Hee.Hee.Hee.

I watched this recently and was entertained to a respectable degree. While I agree that the Yeti wasn't much and in fact sometimes seemed secondary to other things, there was something weirdly compelling that kept me interested. I suppose that the movie is just very different. The photography was interesting and the writing was good. Essentially, this is sorta a poor man's remake of the original King Kong and I'm pretty sure it was aimed at the same audience. The cast really looked cold in the first half of the film as they walked here and there on a very snowy mountain. I liked the scene where they found the cave and were glad to get out of the wind and snow. It reminded me of how strange people are as they actually do go to places like that for some reason or other that doesn't make sense to me. Later the action moves to the United States and the Yeti gets loose underneath the city. The photography is still pretty good in these scenes. Check this one out, maybe you find it oddly attractive like I did. Atmospheric. I'm still wondering what in heck happened to the guide's wife, guess she became a Yeti's mate?

Dr. Frank Parrish (Paul Langton) goes on an expedition, in pursuit of rare plant life, to the Himalayas. There he recruits native bearers. The natives look surprisingly with language and garb as WWII Japanese.

Halfway to his goal, he is informed that the mythical yeti has pilfered the head Sherpa, Subra's (Teru Shimada), wife. Of course, Dr. Parrish laughs it off. This sets Subra on a course of revenge, including stealing the guns and whiskey. In the process using his phony-sounding stilted English and a rifle shoots the radio machine.

Sure enough, they stumble upon a yeti family that tries to self-destruct. The male yeti (Lock Martin) is saved and like King Kong is drugged and flown by way of a TWA prop plane to Los Angeles. When he naturally escapes there is no Empire state building and he does not think of L. A. City Hall, so he takes a clue from another well know 1945 minus "Them!" and finds a secret way of getting around. (Not like we did not think of it first).

Every time he finds a victim there is a white arrow on the street.

This is one cool yeti. So, the question is does he get away? Will the authorities going after him get eaten by giant ants? I am sort of half hoping that he meets up with Dr. Frank Parrish's wife.

The filming location is the same as "Robot Monster", Bronson Caves, Bronson Canyon, Griffith Park - 4730 Crystal Springs Drive, Los Angeles, California, USA.