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Yeti: Curse of the Snow Demon (2008)
Directed By: Paul Ziller (Polar Storm)
The Prologue
Big foots, Aliens, Giant Ants, Wes Craven actually trying to make a movie that wasn’t horror, oh I’ve seen it all my friends. So one might as well sit down and watch a film about Yeti just to add to the list. And just what is a Yeti you may ask??
Well a Yeti is to Big Foot what a Polar Bear is to a normal Bear. It’s just cooler looking because it looks like a pissed off hairy albino. So who could resist a film with these things ripping people apart??..Well you should resist it.
The Movie
An airplane taking a college football team to a bowl game in Japan (I guess they are trying to make the plot make sense) crashes right smack in the snow and in a land that just so happens to have a couple Yeti living there…Oh boy!!
This movie may very well be craptastic! Is that really a word? Well no matter it’s the word I’d use on this thing as the movie is nearly so bad it’s entertaining but there’s just too much wrong with it to truly have a good time.
Now I could start off with the bad acting and crappy CGI. It just so happens at one point the Yeti looks Hulk-like as it charges through the snow, only it looks like it was made by CGI which kills the effect. I could just start there but how about the fact most of this doesn’t make sense?? People do dumb things, people survive the environment a lot easier than they should. Oh and that doesn’t even bring up the fact that after the crash, bodies are laying around, bodies of class mates and team mates, and nobody that’s alive seems to know who most are. (“Who was that on the end?”) I think if someone I went to school with died in a crash I was also in I’d know who I laid on the end of the roll of dead bodies.
Oh and how about the looks of the Yeti? It’s a white big foot body with hair that makes it look somewhat like a mutated Robert Smith when it runs through the snow. The faces don’t look really Yeti-like either, it kinda of looks a remodeled mask of Cropsie from The Burning.
It is somewhat funny seeing a football team (with a QB named Payton no less) taking on a couple Yeti. This results in some football references not to mention at one point a player tackling a Yeti, or do I call it a sack?? Needless to say if the folks who made this movie were in fact QB’s they were sacked and sacked for a loss.
The few fun things about this movie mostly happen at the end where some cool none CGI gore comes into to play and more pissed off Yeti action. If the rest of the film had more blood and less borrowing from other lost in the snow films with the boring people we are stuck with in this I’d say it would be highly more enjoyable…but it isn’t so this movie isn’t.
The Conclusion
Oh it’s a steaming pile folks! It’s got a couple slightly funny moments and it has an OK but way too predictable and corny ending and all in all just not really worth your time.
The Rating (4/10)
This review was originally posted at Horrorphilia
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