Mjeteconer
Just perfect...
CommentsXp
Best movie ever!
Beanbioca
As Good As It Gets
Afouotos
Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.
Julian R. White
I mean hey, you can't expect to watch movies like this and expect to see a masterpiece right? They did good in their plot and the acting was unusually well for a movie like this. However, the main issue is, the Monster is hardly in the movie. You usually see it through the monsters eyes and point of view when it's involved at all, and then the few times you do see it, it's so quick you don't get a chance to see it. The characters spend more time talking about the monster than you actually encounter it. Now that's not always a bad thing, but you get kinda disappointed as the movie goes on. They start off making you believe the creature is some type of Yeti, or a bigfoot, but that's one thing I do appreciate about this film. The creature is rather original, and resembles some type of troll or ogre rather than an ape. It's an interesting concept, but it could use a little work.
StuOz
A bigfoot-type creature in the snow upsets people on holiday.Generally speaking, I don't review horror films but the horror element here is very mild, in fact this could almost be described as a dumbed down episode of The Outer Limits (1963-65) but filmed in colour. In fact Outer Limits writer Joseph Stefano wrote Snowbeast.The music here is vital as we hear so much of it, the composer also scored TV's Fantastic Journey (1977) and Wonder Woman (1978) so he really knew what to do with music in fantasy TV.The snow locations, the music, the creature itself all come together to make this well worth watching, but maybe they could have cut out about 10 minutes of character-making conversation (aka small talk) as I found myself looking at my watch a few times. But all in all: good stuff!
AaronCapenBanner
Herb Wallerstein directed this TV movie, a land-based "Jaws" clone that stars Bo Svenson as former Olympic Gold winning skier Gar Seberg, who is called upon by an old friend to hunt down a murderous Bigfoot-like creature terrorizing his ski resort just as the winter carnival is set to begin. Yvette Mimieux plays Gar's reporter wife Ellen, who becomes directly involved with the hunt along with the sheriff(played by Clint Walker), as it seems this particular "Bigfoot" isn't shy and reclusive at all... Despite being written by genre legend Joseph Stefano, story is uninspired and thin, though the direction does give it some tension in places, and the cast is fine.
Uriah43
A ski lodge somewhere in the Colorado mountains is about to celebrate its 50th anniversary when a report comes in to the owner, "Tony Rill" (Robert Logan) that a girl has been attacked by a vicious beast of some kind. Not wanting to alarm the public he keeps the information low-key while he and 3 other men go to investigate. He finds the jacket of the missing girl and thinks he sees something big and fast moving in the trees. Not long afterward the local sheriff, "Sheriff Paraday" (Clint Walker) gets a disturbing report that a body of a girl has been found viciously mauled to death in a barn. Meanwhile, a gold-medal winning skier named "Gar Seberg" (Bo Svenson) and his wife "Ellen Seberg" (Yvette Mimieux) have arrived at the ski lodge and they join the sheriff and Tony in the hunt for "Bigfoot". At any rate, for a made-for-television movie this particular film wasn't too bad. I liked the performances of both Clint Walker and Yvette Mimieux along with the way the director (Herb Wallerstein) captured the cold winter climate. Unfortunately, the action was rather weak and the special effects left much to be desired. Additionally, there were several parts of the film that were just plain boring. All things considered, I rate it as slightly below average.
