★ 5 / 10
Well "Bo Duke" (John Schneider) did have future
CinemaSerf
Well "Bo Duke" (John Schneider) did have future after all - and who could ever have guessed that it would involve chasing a yeti around the Canadian forests?…
Well "Bo Duke" (John Schneider) did have future after all - and who could ever have guessed that it would involve chasing a yeti around the Canadian forests? This yeti has aged quite well (and his arm has grown back) since "The Empire Strikes Back" (1980) and is narked. Hungrily so - and it's proving quite perilous for the would be tourists to this beautiful snowscape. Anyway, the aforementioned Schneider ("Harwood") finds his party on the menu and it's up to him, daughter "Emmy" (Danielle C. Ryan) and pal "Rob" (Paul D. Hunt) to find a way to stop this beastie before they are all spattered over the snow. To be fair to this, at least we don't rely on heavy scoring and whip-pan photography to create the sense of menace as fairly early on we get to see our predatory menace. It's just that, well, it's not very menacing and most of the people it decides to snack upon are totally deserving of their fate. Luckily the writer escapes unscathed - surely the biggest calamity of this otherwise rather over-scripted, bland and almost comedic attempt at horror. If you want to watch a proper yeti movie that's much better then try out "The Abominable Snowman" (1957) but this is just weak television fodder that merits littles worthy of comment.
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★ 5 / 10
Something is lurking in the Canadian mountains...
paul_haakonsen
Given the overall rating that "Snow Beast" had received here on IMDb, it was with some hesitation that I decided to watch this movie. And the sole purpose of…
Given the overall rating that "Snow Beast" had received here on IMDb, it was with some hesitation that I decided to watch this movie. And the sole purpose of purchasing it was simply because after having seen Danielle Chuchran in "SAGA: Curse of the Shadow" then I wanted to watch some of her previous work.
Well, with "Snow Beast", then you know exactly what you are in for. And true enough, the movie delivers exactly that, and does so without even a single surprise along the way. But despite its predictability, then "Snow Beast" was still an enjoyable movie to watch. It is one of those cheesy and campy pseudo-horror movies that we all indulge in once in a while and most of us don't admit to.
The story is about a group of scientists who trek deep into the Canadian mountains to study lynxes in the wild. However, when they arrive there, the lynxes are gone, and the scientists come face to face with a ferocious man-like beast, reminiscent of the mythical Yeti.
Campy, cheesy and dim-witted, yes, the movie delivers on every account. But still, it managed to captivate me and hold me all the way to the very end.
There were some mistakes here and there, sure. Such as the feet of the snow beast were painstakingly molded latex in the shape of feet fitted upon shoes. The toes were not even parted or moving separately. And the avalanche scene, well that has to be seen to be believe. It was just bad. And something puzzled me beyond mortal comprehension; why would a scientist venture out into the frozen mountains alone, knowing very well that a deadly creature was lurking out there, and arming herself with a camera and a tranquilizer gun - which was conveniently left behind in the car. It was stupidity on a level where even the most of stupid people would go "wait, what did she just do?"
The characters in the movie were detailed and nicely portrayed, and the people hired for the various roles were doing good jobs in acting.
If you enjoy campy horror, then "Snow Beast" is most definitely worth a watch.
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