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Ah yez, the Sci Fi Channel produces Yeti another abominable movie. I was particularly taken by the scenes immediately following the crash where, as the survivors desperately searched for matches, at least a half dozen fires burned – with no apparent reason – at various points of the wreckage. Fire seemed to be a predominate theme throughout. They searched corpses for lighters and matches, and finally finding a box built a fire every day for, apparently, 12, but no one ever gathered wood. Then when the vegan (hah) burned the bodies, what did she use for an accelerant? I mean these guys were frozen – well maybe not. Despite the apparent low temperature everything the yeti ate, bled. Maybe it's just me, but even in a totally unbelievable tale (none of the survivors had ever heard of a yeti, or an abominable snowman, until the very end), if you take care of the little things the bigger deals become more acceptable. Oh, what did the prologue (1972) have to do with the remainder of the movie? And the revolver, warm enough to hold in his hand, froze up and wouldn't fire. Gimme a break. Well, at least we have Carly Pope, another eminently lovely Canadian lass. And, with little irony, Ed Marinaro as the coach.

Well I might as well add, the rabbit they ate (despite it looking like chicken) is not a rodent, but a lagomorph. Now if it had been a squirrel (or a rat) it would have been a rodent, but it still looked like chicken. And the writers missed a real chance to have someone note "It tastes just like..."

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 :.

A football team is flying over the Himalayan Mountains when their plane crashes in desolate territory. Bodies are searched for food and lighters in order to survive. But the team has bigger problems than the cold: they have landed in the vicinity of the legendary yeti, and he's plenty hungry.

This made-for-TV movie directed by Paul Ziller and written by Rafael Jordan, neither of whom have offered anything noteworthy thus far in their careers. I'm not sure that this will really boost either of their careers, as it, too, is nothing noteworthy. In fact, it's a largely pointless endeavor. Even the cast is pretty much a group of unknowns, with the minor exception of Crystal Lowe, whom you're unlikely to have heard of unless you follow movies closely.

What makes me curious is whether this film is intended to be bad, or is just plain bad. That makes a difference, as I can forgive a film's badness if the intent was self-deprecation. For example, the star quarterback's name is Peyton Elway. Now, I'm not a fan of the NFL -- I don't even know the names of my local team's starting lineup, but I do know who Peyton Manning and John Elway are. So the reference was about as obvious as can be. Please tell me this was intended as a bad joke and not as a poor attempt to be clever.

I have to say the airplane animation was not needed, and the same with the yeti. The airplane looks especially cheesy while crashing, and I felt the point was made adequately from just the interior shots. The yeti, which required an elaborate costume, repeatedly is shown jumping and running as a cartoon. Why? Did the crew have no faith in the costume? If they can show it close up, surely it would look fine at a distance -- I mean, it's not as bad as "Raptor Island", but still.

The one thing this film has going for it, besides a decent survival narrative (which, ironically, is ruined rather than strengthened by the yeti), is a brief limb-beating scene. It's close to the end, so you'll have to sit through plenty of bull first. And, sadly, despite a football team -- with women -- on a plane, no mile high club (see "Snakes on a Plane", or better yet, don't).

Conclusion: The Maneater series has some decent entries ("Croc") and some not-so-decent entries ("Blood Monkey"). This one falls somewhere in the middle. Interesting enough to hold your attention, but not interesting enough to recommend to friends or watch a second time. And since the disc comes with no special features, there's no good reason to spend more time on this one than the 87 minutes of running time.

Mr Yeti and his ugly brother (at least I hope that's not Mrs Yeti) live in a cave in the Himalayan mountains where recently trees (just like in Canada, coincidentally) started growing, not knowing it is far too high up for them. The Yetis eat the occasional stupid explorer or tourist, but since the last ones came around in 1972, they became really hungry. Fortunately, a plane full of bad TV actors crashes nearby, and they are obviously unable to survive (I mean, they start making a tiny fire to save them from the cold while the flames on the crashed plane's wing are still five feet high, see 0:14:39 PAL runtime).

Well, this monster movie has a few (unintended) funny moments, but gory effects make it unsuitable for a younger audience, while it is altogether too annoying for a mature audience, so at the end of the day, it's a cheap flick nobody really needs to watch.

This movie embodies everything needed for an all-out laugh riot, although it's not supposed to be scary. Plot, acting, effects and stereotypes were so bad, me and my husband were hoping the yeti would kill everyone in this rotting POS of a movie.

This movie is a sci fi run of the mill script about a Yeti killing humans. Some people crash in the jungle. Two people go to rescue them, and a Yeti tries to kill them.

It doesn't take itself too seriously. The actors all do their jobs very well. There's nothing really wrong with the production itself. The script is very tedious and trite. The characters aren't exactly multi dimensional for the most part, but are better than some of what you're used to seeing in modern science fiction.

For some reason, everyone is real young in the story. So much so, that it detracts from the story, and makes it look more like a farce.

Some of the usual stupid bloody gore to make the nerds laugh, and red necks guffaw. Cute girls, rather attractive cast all around.

Probably nothing you'll remember to speak of the next day. But not overly dull or annoying.

I had the misfortune to watch this rubbish on Sky Cinema Max in a cold winter night. I am not a big fan of horror movies, because most of them are just trash. This one is even worse: it is one of the dumbest pieces of crap i've ever seen in my whole life. Horror movie? Yes, there are horrible things in this: the acting, the script and the special effects - Gosh, i laughed at this ludicrous attempt to make a flick for 90 minutes. Actually, had it been a comic movie i would've given it a 5. Don't you even think about renting this unless you want to mock at the producers.

Vote: 2 out of 10 - didn't vote one because it made me laugh all the time ;-)

i remember seeing the reel for this on the soup and thinking that it might be worth checking out. i give a nod to any horror director that attempts to do something creative and interesting. Obviously this movie focuses on the elusive yeti (which i am surprised so many people never heard of lol) so it already has a lot of creature backstory developed. you may think from the somewhat decently pulled off fake plane/flight cgi and expect to see some cool detailed gory killings.... but you won't. 9 out of 10 times i prefer to see some cool oldschool prosthetic based creative effects (A la 90's Fulci, Raimi, Jackson) However, in this movie that was clearly not a good direction for them.

Clearly there was not much budgeted for the yeti as it is almost contrived to look simply ridiculous and borderline humorous (although it's kind of sad when you think of the people that are employed to do "just this" got paid by whatever production company, and now it sits on their resume.) Whatever actor was hired to put on the yeti suit clearly did not research the creature much as it would be more likely to "shamble" around using its legs and its paws... at least that would be what id do. He just flails around with his arms up in the air while running like a person in a yeti costume would. And it is what it is :p

Don't expect cool gore killings or deaths which would have offered some more redeeming value... they just aren't there for some reason. Overall, it's really kind of like a bad remake of "Alive" except one of the supporting characters happens to put on a yeti costume and eat the others.

Plus they ate a squirrel. That's messed up.

favourite line

"he survived five days out here with two broken legs and you shot him in the face"

a group of special needs students crash in a plane and struggle without their pop tarts

they are beyond imbecilic with about 99% of everything they do, they try to start a fire with their matches even though the plane wreckage is ablaze around them.

there are so many moments where you would want to shout at the TV screen why on earth are you doing that?

however to summarise it is one of those films where despite being trapped on a mountain in harsh conditions everyone remembered to do their hair and shave

oh and the one thing that got me that has not been mentioned in the post is a rescue team is hiking up there to find them, and she has the binoculars out watching a yeti pushing a piece of airplane fuselage over a cliff. this happens at night. then all of a sudden it is day time and the rescue team show up, what were those binoculars mini Hubble telescopes? because she was close enough to make out a great amount of detail.... never mind watch it if you want the laughs and the really bad cgi

"i can only assume it is some sort of large ape" - said another one of the retarded passengers who lacks any skills (these apes have 3 fingers on their badly made latex hands)

Completely ridiculous but also highly entertaining SyFy channel schlock. The story's about a plane carrying a college football team and company that crashes in the Himalayas. No, they aren't going to have to eat each other. But they will have to band together to survive the elements and a killer Yeti.

Not a bad cast. Crystal Lowe alone makes it worth seeing. Joining her are Carly Pope, Ed Marinaro, Ona Grauer, and Peter DeLuise. Scorsese is no doubt jealous. It doesn't take itself seriously and that helps a lot because, well, it's a SyFy movie and they are notoriously terrible. The special effects are a joke, of course. So is the script. But there's a cheesy charm about the whole thing that makes it very watchable. It's definitely a "so bad it's good" type of movie.

An American college football team flying to Japan don't make it when their aeroplane is involved in what must be the most pathetic 'plane crash in movie history & they find themselves stranded in Canada, sorry I mean the Himalayas! Amazingly there are a number of survivors who appear totally unscathed by the ordeal. However it's not just cold & starvation that they have to battle against ("Alive" springs to mind) but also a bloodthirsty Yeti who happens to live near their crash site. Apparently it took 3 1/2 hours a day for the guy to be made up into the creature but he still looks crap. Even worse when he moves at speed (quite ridiculously) the male actor is substituted for very poor CGI. In addition to a rubbish 'plane crash we also get a rubbish avalanche. Acting & script are both poor. Despite being in the wild for about a week all of the guys stay clean shaven. And despite being a college team most of the actors were aged late 20's to early 30's. Granted there is a bit of gore but that doesn't make up for the fact that this movie is dreadful & a waste of my £2 (supermarket budget section).

This is ok if you want to watch a film the defies all logic, has amazingly rubbish acting and a script that could have been written better by a 5 year old. The monster of the title looks like a creepy uncle in a Halloween costume and the effects look like they were done by a college am/dram club. I laughed at most of this film. Who seriously throws a snowball at a yeti in self defence and not run away? My advice would be to watch this only if there is absolutely nothing else to watch on a night when you're intoxicated on whatever it is that floats your boat.

The SCI-FI channel brings us another addition to the man eater series, YETI picks up with a bunch of college football players traveling by plane, whose plane crashes in the Himalayas and find themselves having to try and survive the cold and fend of a carnivorous yeti.

YETI isn't something I would call a masterpiece, but it is also not one of the worst films ever made, it is mainly just a good time passer to say the least, sure it has tacky looking CGI, it has dialog that is nothing to write home about, and the yeti looks like chewbacca's angry cousin with a bad tan, the acting however is not all bad, I would say that maybe one or two cast members were not so good, and the others did all right.

Overall, its a low budget made for TV movie, nothing special, but not the worst film that's out there, and it features chewbacca's angry cousin with a bad tan.

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

The most interesting thing about an incredibly flat and uninspiring made-for-television creature feature called "Yeti: Curse of the Snow Demon" is when one of our supporting characters gives an inept, all-too-obvious homage to the movie "Predator." Remember that classic moment from that wonderful 1987 movie where Sonny Landham mutters: "There's something out there waiting for us. And it ain't no man." Well, just swap the word "man" with "bear" and you've got the only noteworthy thing in the picture "Yeti." It's not noteworthy because it's humorous or nostalgic, but because it's the most pathetic.

The setup is a rehash. A plane crashes in the Himalayan mountains. The survivors scramble out and try to survive in the wilderness. Then one day, they are starting to get picked off by an (initially) unseen creature. They suspect it's a bear. Then they come to realize that "it ain't no bear," but that it's the legendary abominable snowman.

This time our cast is not a group of ordinary Joes and Janes, but a college football team. A bunch of airheaded jocks and flimsy-minded dames. That means they're obnoxious and exasperating, right? They're even more flat and twice as irritating than the shrieking teens who by themselves destroyed the second half of "Jaws 2." And of course, we've got to have the quarterback - the star vehicle of the team - be this goodhearted, noble-minded gent whose madly in love with a female passenger with a past and who must give a big speech every time he has a point to make and yet somehow, despite the lack of sense or clever wording, everybody ends up nodding in the end. And of course, opposing him, you've got to have this nasty, self-content jerk who wants everything to go his way and will gripe whenever they do not.

Clichés, clichés, clichés.

Seriously, if you are involved in the motion picture business - even if you are involved in only low-budget stuff for the weekend - and you are paid to be creative (and must like being creative) why not have some fun and not just tread over the same old stuff before. Whenever I write a science-fiction short story, even if the plot is familiar, I always try in the few whimsical moments I have beforehand to instill something unique. Nobody's paying me to be imaginative? So why can't these folks who write these teleplays put at least half an hour of effort? That's all it takes.

What's more amazing is the lack of thought put into the creature. Or rather, creatures. There's more than one abominable snowman. And actually, they are more like a cross between an orangutan and a cricket, for despite their size and lack of powerful leg muscles, are capable of (in their CGI form) bound incredible lengths and heights in a fraction of a second. Sometimes their legs don't even move and they go flying, like they're on springs buried beneath the snow. These creatures are cut-outs and only exist because the plot says they must. I think the writers put even less effort into creating them...and they're the stars of the show. It's exceeding rare in monster pictures, especially low-budget ones, where the humans are more interesting than the beasties.

To its credit, "Yeti: Curse of the Snow Demon" is not as bad as some of its kin. There are some flicks like "Python" that obviously try and fail harder. Maybe the key to making a cheap flick mediocre when there is a lack of talent or ambition aboard is to just not care. Mediocre is better than terrible. Forgettable is better than memorable when it comes to bad movies. And "Yeti" is forgettable.

Its mediocre and i'm grading it for what it is A B movie now there are many problems here from the acting to the writing to the directing to the Yeti's ridiculous costume (which you can see the actors eyelids and can tell that his hands are really wobbly rubber gloves) to the point you get what i'm saying. Now this movie is about A college football team who must find a way to survive after their plane crashes on a remote mountain during a blizzard. They are heading tp a big game of course led by star Quarter Back Peyton Elway hahahhaha. O my well if you like to laugh this movie will certainly do that like the rabbit hunting scene and the weird and pointless repetitive transitions from live yeti to cgi yeti and yes you really can tell the difference like night and day. But the ending was pretty good also, I will give this movie that. I'll probably throw my copy of yeti in again sometime great crap movie fun.