Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Taraparain Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

Delight Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

Brooklynn There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

Michael_Elliott The Snow Creature (1954) * 1/2 (out of 4)Two American explores are tracking up the mountains near Tibet when their guides decide they'd rather chase the mythical Yeti. At first the Americans think that the locals are just being silly but once they have proof of the creature they decide to capture it. Once captured, the two bring it back to America where it escapes so the hunt is on.THE SNOW CREATURE was the first film dealing with a Yeti so that might get some people curious enough to check it out but sadly this film is pretty darn bad. Director W. Lee Wilder really had zero to work with here because it appears the budget was so low that they couldn't actually shoot on location, which is expected but what makes this film so bad is the fact that the budget appears to be so low that they did nothing but add dialogue scenes.The majority of the 71 minute running time simply has characters sitting around in fake looking caves or silly looking offices talking about the snow creature. They talk about whether it's real or fake. Whether they should kill or capture it. Whether it's man or beast. They've got so much dialogue packed into this thing I really do wonder how big the screenplay was. What's worse is the fact that none of these conversations are interesting and they're certainly shot in a poor way. There's no energy or power to be found in any of these scenes.The costume of the snow creature certainly isn't anything great but it at least looks decent in the few scenes that we see it. Since they did have a costume, all the dialogue scenes are even more shocking. I mean, I'd understand a monster movie not having too much of the monster because they couldn't afford the effect but THE SNOW CREATURE has a costume yet instead of more monster footage it's just all dialogue. THE SNOW CREATURE could have been much better than what it is.

mark.waltz Dismally made sci-fi yarn of a trek to the Himalayas to search for rare flora and fauna which (in addition to have been a more interesting plot possibility than this one) leads to the discovery of a Yeti seen in the constantly repeated same shot with a bad edit as it is continuously repeated every time this solitary creature appears. When the Yeti is captured (and kept in something that looks like an antique phone booth), it is flown to civilization, and escapes with nowhere to hide. Since they obviously didn't give the poor creature a credit card, I guess he/it couldn't check into a hotel. This is another example of human beings going where they shouldn't be and thinking that they have the right to capture a creature like this, take it away from the only home it has ever known, and bring it back to what we call civilization in order to further research it. Lousy photography makes this one almost impossible to watch at any rate, with the acting ludicrously amateurish and the script so bad it feels like it was written in crayon. Filmmakers should be given a list in cinema school of "What not to do" and ordered to watch them. This would be near the top of the list.

bkoganbing The Snow Creature casts Paul Langton and Leslie Dennison as a botanist and friend on a Himalayan expedition to investigate the flora and fauna of the roof of the world. But flora and fauna give way to the fabled Yeti, the abominable snowman only hinted at and never seen except by the native Sherpas of the region.According to them, the big Yetis are reticent except when in need of some kanoodling and there are no female Yetis around. That's when they come down the mountains and run off with some human women. Which is what they do to the Langton/Dennison expedition. And which is why Sherpa guide Teru Shimada takes over the expedition and declares it a hunt for the Yeti who stole his wife.After that business is settled and the Yeti captured by reluctant Sherpas he's transported to Los Angeles where a second film starts while the government decides whether he's animal or human and which department of our Federal government should deal with his arrival. While all that goes on, the big guy escapes and starts on the prowl in Los Angeles where he's never seen so many people, especially so many of the female variety.If you're asking is this as stupid as it sounds, the answer is, even stupider. This film was produced by Lee Wilder who was Billy's brother. You can hardly believe the products of the brothers being so different.

gavin6942 American botanical expedition in the Himalayas stumbles across a Yeti den, capture one and transport it back to Los Angeles, where it escapes while customs officials are debating whether it is animal or human.From the relatives of Billy Wilder comes this crazy horror flick, and I must say the film and sound quality of this movie are impeccable. The yeti has a simple but effective costume. And all in all this movie is far better than anyone should expect from its age, budget, crew and cast.The film also raises an interesting question: what does it mean to be human? The government has to decide if the yeti is human or not. While it is clearly not human in the same physical sense we are, is that what makes us human? The film suggests that a creature with a "calculating mind" could be human... an interesting definition.