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Good story, Not enough for a whole film

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

I had never heard of this movie and was a bit hesitant about watching it, thinking that this would be just another movie loaded down with lame digital special effects. I decided I'd record it on my DVR while I was at work and watch it the next day. I've actually never been this glad to be wrong about a movie. I was happy to see a monster movie that used good, old fashioned real effects instead of relying only on digital effects. Of course, the effects don't really make up for the predictability of the film. It was just a little too easy to figure out which characters would survive until the end and which ones would end up dead. Overall, not a totally awful movie, but not one I'd pay money to see.

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!

Every now and again a film comes along with the potential to change lives. Snow Beast is that film. Superb acting, a gripping plot, and shocks that will have you vacating your bowls left right and center.The horror genre may well have been reinvented; the pacing is that meticulous that every other horror film looks worse than a guy that has just been savaged by Snow Beast, which is pretty terrible. If you don't own this on DVD, buy it now. The director deserves special credit for reworking a classic like the original and managing to keep the charm of the original while still adding some special effects that are, to put it mildly, mind-blowing. You won't regret watching this, and, thanks to the mighty Snow Beast, you will never look at movies in the same way again. In fact, Snow Beast makes Alien and Predator look like the local dorks, and most other horror films will now look comical, they are so much less terrifying than this glorious masterpiece.

Quite some runtime has focus on the daughter and father, on their dysfunctional relationship. Will they fix their relationship? Well guess - you won't get it wrong. A yeti runs amok, killing senselessly, most likely because the characters aside from our main four blatantly don't matter, and don't contribute much aside from... actually, with most kills occurring offscreen the "body count" characters don't really add anything and receive little screen time. An unambitious creature feature, "Snow Beast" has nothing for anyone with experience watching creature features.