Beautiful, moving film.

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

The fourth entry in Italy's "Gamma One" spaghetti sci-fi series does have a rather amusing story. When a weather station in the Himalayas is attacked, and its employees killed, intrepid space captain Rod Jackson (Giacomo Rossi Stuart) is dispatched to find out what happened. In the company of his faithful sidekick Frank Pulasky (Goffredo Unger), a guide (Wilbert Bradley), and assorted porters, they venture into the mountains, and encounter the title culprits: the yetis of legend, who just so happen to be aliens!Series director Antonio Margheriti (who also co-wrote the screenplay) has some fun with the far out premise - for a while. While "Snow Devils" isn't as engaging as earlier entries, it's still goofy enough to work, with villains who helpfully give the audience and the heroes all the exposition that they could need. While it will strike its viewers as being cheap and cheesy (the Snow Devils are pretty tacky looking), it's this "quality" that makes the movie moderately charming. The performances are adequate from all concerned, and the ladies - Ombretta Colli, Halina Zalewska - are lovely. Enzo Fiermonte once again essays the role of the steadfast General Norton.The problem is that Margheriti can't steer the story towards an effective finale. Things actually get too slow and too quiet instead of building up the tension and excitement. But at least we eventually get rewarded with a couple of explosions.This movie does offer a reasonable amount of fun, even if it's not altogether satisfying.Followed by an unofficial series entry, the notorious "The Green Slime".Six out of 10.

The budgets of WILD WILD PLANET(1965) and WAR OF THE PLANETS(1966) ran out in this follow up to those films, using props and situations created in them. This one is earthbound and lacks the terrificly gaudy miniature future-scapes of the last two outings. And lacks the stars(Tony Russel, who actually has screen *presence* in the previous two).Has a terrific opening score that playable several times, but the whole thing seems terribly set-bound, and small sets at that. But overall recalls to us a time of film-making long gone.Fun stuff.

I can't decide what was the most egregiously foolish part of this piece of cinematic detritus from Italy. Is it the howlingly bad dialogue, the terrible special effects, the atrocious acting, god-awful dubbing, moronic script, pretentious music or silly costumes? Oh, why pick one when together they add up to monumental idiocy, truly a so bad it's good classic.Here's the plot, such as it is. The arctic (which apparently is located around the Himalayas??!!) is heating up and threatening to flood the world. The weather station there has been destroyed by, get ready, Yetis! A helpful scientist explains that sometimes these creatures come down from their mountains and just go crazy-eights bonkers! Okay, so I'm paraphrasing here, but I can assure you the actual explanation is just as hilariously lame. Our intrepid hero and his buddy, along with a plucky female with really big hair and way too much eye makeup, go to investigate and discover that the yeti are, and I quote our hero here, "aliens from outer space"! Gasp! And they have a big machine that's heating up the ice so it melts and covers the planet and they'll refreeze it and then they can live on it because it's like their planet and yada yada yada...Anyway, the baddies are kind enough to provide this exposition to our heroic party of badly dressed leads so that the heroes can thwart the diabolical plot a bit later. Why do the bad guys always do this in bad movies and t.v. rather than just kill the good guys? There follows a gun fight, with special effect laser guns that Buster Crabbe and company would have jeered at, and some of the hokiest death scenes ever captured on film. The heroes prevail, naturally, and now they have to deal with the results of the melting ice and flooding conditions.Mystery Science Theatre would have had a ball with this garbage, and even without Joel, Mike and the bots, it's still pretty damn funny. Put your brain on hold, have a few drinks (trust me, it's better that way), kick back and enjoy Snow Devils!

**SPOILERS** Another attempt by aliens from another world trying to destroy the earth in order to take it over minus the human race left still living on it. With Yetis attacking a IDSC weather station on the ice capped Himalayias and killing everyone in it except it's commander Let. Harris has the head of IDSC Gen Norton send his best man Commander Rod, together with his top kick Capt. Pulasky, and a team of local mountain climbers to scale the Himalayan mount. Consent Junga in order to find what exactly happened. Sneaking on the climbing team is Harris' girlfriend Lisa Nielson disguised as a Sherpa guide trying to find out what happened to her lover Let. Harris. Attacked by a group of Yeti's and taken prisoners the climbers find out from the Yeti's leader Agron that their not really Yati's Bigfeet or Abominable Snowmen at all. In fact their from another planet Attina who have been on the planet earth for over a hundred years.With all the electronic equipment in working order the Attina's are now going to put the squeeze on the polar ice caps and cause them to break up and flood the earth and then lower the earth's temperature to below freezing and turn the surface of the earth into a solid sheet of ice. this would create a world for the Attina's to survive and thrive in. Commander Rod & Co. escaping from the Yeti's or Attina's and later tries to destroy their base in the Himalayias where the melting of the ice caps still continue with the coast cities of earth going under the waves. It turns out that the Attina's are using a power source in deep space to bombard the earths polar region's and it's up to Commander Rod to not only find where that source originates from but to go out with a fleet of space ships and destroy it. Bottom of the barrel special effects with a hackneyed storyline is the order of business in "Snow Devils" that has the viewers trying to keep from dozing off as they desperately try to watch the movie. The Snowmen Yeti's or Attina's had worked so long and hard to get were they were in the film. Just when they were about to achieve what they worked for all these years all they got for their efforts is nothing but a good old hot foot for their big feet or their "Bigfoot" as their known in these parts.