The Snow Creature
by W. Lee Wilder
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Actor: Leslie Denison, Paul Langton, Robert Kino, Rollin Moriyama, Teru ShimadaDirector: W. Lee Wilder
Cinematographer: Floyd Crosby
Producer: W. Lee Wilder
Editor: Jodie Copelan
Writer: Myles Wilder
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 69 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-11-19
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Alpha Video
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DVD Review: Attack of the Guy in the Moth Eaten Fur!
Summary: 2 Stars
When you are seeking exciting adventures in botany in the Himalayas, I bet you never thought you would run into a Yeti. Become a botanist, see the world, and be attacked by imaginary creatures! You will find all this excitement and more in this movie.
Dr. Frank Parrish (Paul Langton, who saw much better days in movies such as "30 Seconds Over Tokyo" and "They Were Expendable") leads an expedition into the Himalayas to collect samples of possibly undiscovered plants. Veteran photographer and alcoholic Peter Wells (Leslie Denison) accompanies Dr. Parrish. Things seem to be going well until a guy in a costume that appears to have seen better days kidnaps the young, beautiful wife of Sherpa guide Subra (Teru Shimada). As you can probably understand, neither Parrish nor Wells believes that the Yeti exists, and they insist the expedition continue as originally planned. However, Subra has other plans, and takes over the expedition. The excitement really mounts now!
The expedition goes up hills. The expedition goes down hills. Sometimes the expedition goes up a hill for a while, and then goes down the same hill so that they can go up another hill. Occasionally the expedition stops so that the lead characters can utter chilling dialogue. You hope your eyes can remain unglazed long enough to get to the end of the movie.
After nearly being killed by a Yeti, the expedition finds a cave containing a Yeti family. In a moment of insanity, the male Yeti causes a cave-in that kills his Yeti wife and Yeti child, and leaves him stunned. Apparently Yeti are not any brighter than some people. The expedition captures the Yeti, and after a fierce struggle, Dr. Parrish regains control of the expedition from Subra.
Dr. Parrish has the Yeti shipped to Los Angeles in a refrigerated box about the size of a phone booth. The box includes a window that the Yeti is unable to break for some reason. Immigration has the Yeti held in storage while determining its classification (early Homeland Security types trying to figure out if the Yeti was a terrorist). The Yeti (can you see this coming?) escapes. After killing a girl for no apparent reason, the Yeti wanders around Los Angeles while the police are clueless. The police finally figure out that the Yeti is hiding in the sewers, much like the ants in "Them!" which was released months earlier the same year.
After an exciting and thrilling chase through the sewers of Los Angeles the climax of the movie is reached, and viewers are left with but one word to say: Huh?
This movie has so many problems that it is a comedy. The scenes of the Yeti are replayed over and over again. Seriously, the same identical scenes of the Yeti moving forward and backward are played again and again. Maintaining efficiency, other scenes are used over again as well. For example, the same scene of motor cycle police roaring by was used at least twice. Some of the up and down hill action by the expedition I thought might have been used twice, but I did not look. To keep from spending too much money on special effects, the director only showed the Yeti in low light or partially obscured. In a way we should be glad, because the Yeti costume looked like a fur coat that had seen better days. I will not mention the policeman shooting a gun with his middle finger in one scene and then holding his index finger on the trigger in the next scene. And what is up with all the Japanese characters in Nepal or China, or wherever the heck these people were?
This movie by W. Lee Wilder, older brother the famous director Billy Wilder, came on the heels of such classics as "Phantom from Space" and "Killers from Space." Sad to say, both those movies were better than this one, with each being progressively worse than the one just prior. I have to wonder how bad "Manfish (1956)" was.
This movie is pure schlock, and is better as fodder for one-liners than as representation of horror or science fiction. I am unable to figure out who would want to buy this movie for their collection. If you really have to have a W. Lee Wilder movie, try "Phantom from Space." At least that movie had some charm.
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