Curt
Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.
wes-connors
In the Canadian wilderness, furry white "Snow Beast" attacks a young man while snow-boarding. Unaware of the precise danger, animal researcher John Schneider (as Jim Harwood) arrives to investigate. When the next attack occurs, you'll know before it happens. Also predictable is the subplot involving Mr. Schneider and his ungrateful teenage daughter Danielle Chuchran (as Emmy)...Schneider handles the acting assignment well. However, all is lost when he appears to forget all about his friend Paul D. Hunt (as Rob) and leaves him in a cave. Making this particular scene even worse is the fact that Schneider momentarily wants to save a dead woman over his living friend. In a serious story-telling error, the hatred for Mr. Hunt's very likable character is never explained.** Snow Beast (10/4/11) Brian Borough ~ John Schneider, Danielle Chuchran, Paul D. Hunt, Jason London
Foreverisacastironmess
Oh now this here was just a terrible excuse for a horror movie! It was boring, and a lot of the acting so stiff and forced that I frequently found it downright awkward to watch mostly. I didn't find it enjoyable in any way really, not the drama, the dramatic side of the film was awful. There wasn't even any nice gory kills to ease things along. Not that I watch horror movies for that, but in certain cases such as this, it's a plus. No laughs, I wouldn't call this a movie that was so bad it was good. Even that other stinky yeti movie, "Curse of the Snow Demon", the one where the monster hops around like a flea was better than this! It doesn't even feel like a proper horror movie, it feels more like a very bad TV drama with tinges of horror and sci-fi, all the way through to the lame done-to-death "gotcha" bit at the ending. Should this film actually be called a remake of 1977's Snowbeast? Why would anyone want to do that anyway, it's not exactly a shining classic. Despite the vaguely similar plots, the films are vastly different. Example, Snowbeast(one word)actually had a kind of plot, whereas this thing doesn't seem to, and this picture doesn't have any of the, admittedly meagre magic of the Bo Svenson "classic." Mouldy old Snowbeast from the distant 70's, a film not at all that good in itself, still manages to do so much more for me than this thoroughly forgettable tripe. I didn't rate it zero/one because uh, I liked the snow. We don't get it in England any more and I always find such winter wonderland surroundings pleasant to look at in a movie. And of course, who could ever forget cuddly 'ol Mr yeti, such a badly put together creation that he was merely amusing rather than scary. More about him in a minute.::: I thought John Sneider's performance was the best , though the best in this isn't saying much. He held many an awkward situation together by the skin of his acting teeth. Good actor, bad movie. His daughter was so annoying! Her sullen, teenage girl mad at her father for mother leaving act was such a worn out old bad cliché. And Jason London-what a stupid little weeny part he had! What was the point of him even being in the movie? He didn't do anything, just hung out with, and exchanged insults with a fat viking guy. And he looks tremendously stupid and corny when he screamed as the yeti gets him. In any case, I bet this is a role the guy will happily forget. I'm not a fan. He's so boring.::: Someone wrote something about the monster looking like one of the Mangalore's from Fifth Element.(a good one) I had thought that too, and the Wampa monster from The Empire Strikes Back mixed together. I thought the face was impressive. Too bad the rest of the thing committed the grave sin of simply looking like a guy in a suit. Not that I'd normally mind that at all, but this was a very poor example of a suit. The design of the creature in the 'original' was far more effective and impressive-looking, I'll put it that way. I thought the yeti looked so cute in the scene where John Sneider takes out the rubbish and hears a growl and looks into the forest and sees nothing. And when he goes back in, the camera pans to the spot he was looking at and the yeti slowly peeps his head up-oh, looks so cute I just can't stand it! The thing sure liked to slap people around a lot. It's pimp-slapping and snatch and grab skills were second to none! The monster in this movie may have been pretty pathetic, but there is a short story that I know of that is far greater than any movie of this kind, it's called Creature of the Snows, by William Sambrot. Try and find it, 'cause if you're intrigued by yeti monster, I promise you'll love it.::: I watched this expecting to at least enjoy it, because I usually do with yeti/Bigfoot monster movies, of which there aren't that many, and this ain't one of the good ones, I would not recommend it. If you think things are looking bad when you see the prologue, well then you ain't seen nothing yeti!
TheLittleSongbird
In all honesty I wasn't expecting much, and once again I didn't get much. Certainly I have seen much worse than Snow Beast, but overall I found it lame, with the only really good attributes being the scenery and John Schneider's performance. The effects are really not very good, the creature of the title is cheap looking, restricted in movement and not very menacing or terrifying at all. The script is cheesy and aimless, the story reeks of predictability, the pace is overly-languid and dull, not helped by the too-talky nature of some scenes, and the other actors look wooden, unsurprisingly unable to do anything to their uninteresting and stereotypical characters.All in all, not the worst film I've seen, but lame with not much point to it. 3/10 Bethany Cox
