Yeti: Curse Of The Snow Demon Movie
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Surviving the crash was only the beginning...
Surviving the crash was only the beginning...
| Peter DeLuise | John Sheppard |
| Josh Emerson | Andrew |
| Brandon Jay McLaren | Rice |
| Marc Menard | Peyton Marino |
| Adam O'Byrne | James De Ravin |
| Aaron Pearl | H.W. Tilman |
| Kris Pope | Rafael Garcia |
| Ona Grauer | |
| Crystal Lowe | Ashley |
| Elfina Luk | Kyra |
| Carly Pope | Sarah |
| Paul Ziller |
3.80 out of 10 (239 votes)
Visitor Reviews
Pretty good
posted on 11 Aug 2009I just finished watching this and I was pretty impressed, I'm a huge sucker for sasquatch type movies so I was satisfied for this.A few things that were funny in the beginning, when it was going into the storm scene, the outside was all stormy, but inside the plane, it was as if it were sunny. I thought that was kinda werid. Also, I think that some of the other people should of had a bigger role in the movie, like the brother of the Asian girl.I really didn't like the cave chase scenes, when the Yeti comes out of the cave, it was all 3d, and it kept showing up for like 4 times, it got kinda old and stupid after a while.Zack, i think that's his name, who went to find the radio, i did'nt like how he was there for the first 15 minutes, then disappeared for like 30 minutes, i know they were trying to make it seem like he was on his own and stuff. The ending I did'nt like really, when Zack, was still alive, (He was shot in the face with the flare gun), and he was crawling out and saw the other yeti's hand come out.Overall i liked the movie, love sasquatch movies8 out of 10
Enjoyable in spite of itself.
posted on 20 Jul 2009First off, I'm not here to dog this movie. I find it totally enjoyable in spite of the poor production quality. The acting herein is about as abominable as the monster stalking them, although the monster itself is quite well done...impressively well done, at that. He actually looks kind of other-worldly, like an alien family on vacation landed in the Himalayas and while dad was out taking a ... attending to nature's call, Spot got loose and they just didn't have time to hunt him down. That, or he's the Caucasian brother of the Wishmaster. I haven't decided which.Actually, this seems to have been filmed somewhere in snow country, yes, but more likely Canada somewhere than China anywhere. The trees and vistas say Canada to me, and it's okay that the set area never takes on the look or feel of uber-coldness one might expect to find in the Himalayas of China. It's a Sci-Fi Channel movie, so we can forgive the lack of location.Further, apparently (as we have just established) Sci-Fi directors do not travel often, as they are not aware that commercial planes fly above weather like what is featured herein and the subsequent crash actually would not have happened. But as I said, it's a Sci-Fi Channel movie so we must forgive a few things.The movie is pretty graphic at times, and rotates between "Alive" about the Donner Party, "Predator" about the alien in the woods, and any bad wushu movie where they fly about on wires. The Yeti apparently can leap about like Spiderman...or Super Mario...remember? "Run faster! Jump higher! Live longer!" Also, the Yeti has missed his teddy bear. He's searched high and low for it, but cannot seem to make a cadaver work. Poor Yeti! You can't help but feel sorry for it. It has survived and evolved thousands of years only to succumb to severe teddy bear loss. He's missed his bear. Or maybe it wants to mate, but that thought is BANISHED! Do ya hear me? Well, it does seem to be an unmated male. REBANISHED! And it's superhuman. Well, it's not human...it's super-Yeti! But then again, what's normal-Yeti? I don't know, but he has a definite Michael Meyers quality that is completely unsettling. And he's got this fabulous way of cleaning his fur. FABulous Dahlink! It's spotlessly white at times when it SO shouldn't be. He's fastidiously superhu-...super-Yeti.All in all? This was a lot of fun to watch, has some great kills and a few honest plot elements. In spite of the horribly gravel-like production style, this is actually quite entertaining. I can't help wondering if they're planning on another one? It rates a 6.0/10 on the M4TV Scale.It rates a 4.4/10 on the Movie Scale from...the Fiend :.
High Levels of Stupidity From "Yeti"
posted on 09 Apr 2009Hmmm, a sports team is in a plane crash, gets stranded on a snowy mountain, and is faced with the difficult decision to eat the flesh of their dead companions in order to survive. Sound familiar anyone? I refer to "Alive" from 1993. The only major difference here, of course, is that a big, white, drunken scare crow of a Yeti shows up a few times to drag off the dead. I guess humans taste better than yaks.Stupid: The man in the first scene does not have a reliable firearm when hunting the Yeti, nor does he have a backup.The plane crash is completely bogus. It would have either exploded in the air, exploded when it hit the ground, or become obliterated. The people would not have survived, but hey, it's sci-fi.Stupid: They survived, and they are cold. It might be a good idea to harness some of the burning debris nearby so as not to freeze to death. Fire being warm as it is… WTF: The pilot has frost formed all over his face while he's alive and talking, but oddly enough, no one else does.Stupid: One of the guys tells the others to look for matches and lighters, but there are scattered parts of the plane ON FIRE all around them.Stupid: They find coats and hoodies, and yet there in the cold of the Himalayas, they fail to use the hoods! Stupid: Their staring at a pile of sticks when, I reiterate, there are pieces of the plane ALREADY BURNING.Stupid: The Himalayas are notorious for its storms. It would be common sense for them to collect the debris in order to reinforce their structure rather than sitting outside bickering. There are a lot of pine trees around, the branches of which make excellent insulation.WTF: When in doubt, use a dead man's arm as a splint.WTF: If the one guy knows so much about the hibernation habits of squirrels, bears, and leopards in the Himalayas, then why doesn't he know enough to make shelter and set traps right from the start? Stupid: When attempting to trap wild animals, mindless conversation in the vicinity of said trap always helps.WTF: Do you know how hard it would be to cut a frozen corpse with a shard of glass?! WTF: The group was ready and armed to fight the Yeti while the other two were standing there defenseless. The Yeti ripped out the guy's heart and stomped the girl's head, and the gang did nothing. There's love.So two Yetis and a convenient avalanche to bury the evidence forever.... or so we think. Mwuhahahaa! The story continues into more idiocy but the most action occurs in the last 15 minutes, as usual. Nice thinking with the javelin and the chain, although this is some ingenuity (with the magically-appearing chain) that they lacked in the beginning of the movie when they couldn't even make fire despite the fact that it was all around them.As is typical for the Sci-Fi Originals, the loving couple kisses at the end like nothing horrible has just happened to them (not to mention they ate human flesh and haven't brushed their teeth in several days).The very end, however, is quote lame.
The Sci Fi Channel Gives Us Another Maneater Film
posted on 05 Apr 2009A football team is flying over the Himalayan Mountains when their plane crashes in desolate territory. Bodies are searched for food and lighters in order to survive. But the team has bigger problems than the cold: they have landed in the vicinity of the legendary yeti, and he's plenty hungry.This made-for-TV movie directed by Paul Ziller and written by Rafael Jordan, neither of whom have offered anything noteworthy thus far in their careers. I'm not sure that this will really boost either of their careers, as it, too, is nothing noteworthy. In fact, it's a largely pointless endeavor. Even the cast is pretty much a group of unknowns, with the minor exception of Crystal Lowe, whom you're unlikely to have heard of unless you follow movies closely.What makes me curious is whether this film is intended to be bad, or is just plain bad. That makes a difference, as I can forgive a film's badness if the intent was self-deprecation. For example, the star quarterback's name is Peyton Elway. Now, I'm not a fan of the NFL -- I don't even know the names of my local team's starting lineup, but I do know who Peyton Manning and John Elway are. So the reference was about as obvious as can be. Please tell me this was intended as a bad joke and not as a poor attempt to be clever.I have to say the airplane animation was not needed, and the same with the yeti. The airplane looks especially cheesy while crashing, and I felt the point was made adequately from just the interior shots. The yeti, which required an elaborate costume, repeatedly is shown jumping and running as a cartoon. Why? Did the crew have no faith in the costume? If they can show it close up, surely it would look fine at a distance -- I mean, it's not as bad as "Raptor Island", but still.The one thing this film has going for it, besides a decent survival narrative (which, ironically, is ruined rather than strengthened by the yeti), is a brief limb-beating scene. It's close to the end, so you'll have to sit through plenty of bull first. And, sadly, despite a football team -- with women -- on a plane, no mile high club (see "Snakes on a Plane", or better yet, don't).Conclusion: The Maneater series has some decent entries ("Croc") and some not-so-decent entries ("Blood Monkey"). This one falls somewhere in the middle. Interesting enough to hold your attention, but not interesting enough to recommend to friends or watch a second time. And since the disc comes with no special features, there's no good reason to spend more time on this one than the 87 minutes of running time.
Do the small things better
posted on 03 Apr 2009Ah yez, the Sci Fi Channel produces Yeti another abominable movie. I was particularly taken by the scenes immediately following the crash where, as the survivors desperately searched for matches, at least a half dozen fires burned – with no apparent reason – at various points of the wreckage. Fire seemed to be a predominate theme throughout. They searched corpses for lighters and matches, and finally finding a box built a fire every day for, apparently, 12, but no one ever gathered wood. Then when the vegan (hah) burned the bodies, what did she use for an accelerant? I mean these guys were frozen – well maybe not. Despite the apparent low temperature everything the yeti ate, bled. Maybe it's just me, but even in a totally unbelievable tale (none of the survivors had ever heard of a yeti, or an abominable snowman, until the very end), if you take care of the little things the bigger deals become more acceptable. Oh, what did the prologue (1972) have to do with the remainder of the movie? And the revolver, warm enough to hold in his hand, froze up and wouldn't fire. Gimme a break. Well, at least we have Carly Pope, another eminently lovely Canadian lass. And, with little irony, Ed Marinaro as the coach.Well I might as well add, the rabbit they ate (despite it looking like chicken) is not a rodent, but a lagomorph. Now if it had been a squirrel (or a rat) it would have been a rodent, but it still looked like chicken. And the writers missed a real chance to have someone note "It tastes just like..."
Rubbish but sort of entertaining rubbish.
posted on 16 Feb 2009Yeti: Curse of the Snow Demon starts aboard a plane full of American high school teens who are on their way to play a football game in Japan, unfortunately during a fierce thunder storm their plane crashes in the Himalayas. Unlucky really. With some dead & some alive the survivors have to think about themselves & decide to wait it out until help comes. However just when they think their luck couldn't get any worse they soon discover that a huge, hairy Yeti type Abominable Snowman creature wants to kill & eat them all. Trapped, cold, starving & fighting for survival will help reach the stranded teens in time?Yeah, with a title like Yeti: Curse of the Snow Demon it can only mean one thing & that is that someone at the Sci-Fi Channel has made yet another 'Creature Feature' although to give these things a bit of variety the Sci-Fi Channel here in the UK are now dubbing them as a 'Beast Feast'! As if that will make any difference. Directed by Paul Ziller one has to say that Yeti: Curse of the Snow Deamon is a terrible film but a somewhat entertaining one at the same time, sure it's bad but it's sort of fun at times too. The basic premise is alright actually, it's a sort of cross between Alive (1993) with it's plane crash & the survivors having to turn cannibal to survive & the excellent gory killer Bigfoot (another legendary hairy monster) exploitation flick Night of the Demon (1980) which I would defend with my last breath & I have to say it's not exactly a marriage made in heaven but as I said it's fun at times if not exactly gripping or well written. The character's are mostly annoying American teens, there's the expected arguing, there's the macho hero, the strong female & the coward who thinks only of himself so there's no prizes for originality. There are some plot holes too, if a plane load of people crash why only send two rangers on foot to search for them? How are you going to dig a large hole & line it with sharpened sticks in the space of ten minutes? Why did the Yeti not kill that bird at the end? It had killed everyone else up to that point so why not her? The 'there are actually two Yeti's running around' twist isn't used to any effect at all either. At least there's a good pace about the film, it certainly moves along at a fair old pace & I never found myself becoming bored with it. There's some moderately gory action & the film does have some fascination in seeing whether the kids are going to survive or not & if they are going to eat their dead mates or not.The one thing you can always say about these Sci-Fi Channel 'Creature Features' or 'Beast Feasts' is that the CGI computer effects will be laugh out loud hilarious & so that proves to be the case yet again. The plane crash at the start looks awful & the Yeti when it's CGI looks simply embarrassing jumping all over the place like it's on a pogo stick. There one or two nice gore scenes including a ripped off arm, a squashed head, a ripped out heart, some dead bodies, some blood splatter & the best bit when the Yeti rips a guy in half & beats him with his own ripped-off legs before biting a big chunk out of them. According to the IMDb the actor playing the Yeti took three & a half hours to get into the suit & the make-up which seems like a long time since it's actually a pretty tatty looking creation. Apparently the original title was Raksha: Curse of the Snow Demon with Raksha meaning demon in Tibetan Sanskrit, so now you know.This has reasonable production values considering the usual Sci-Fi Channel stuff they churn out although the mountain location looks nothing like the harsh, bleak Himalayas & was probably situated near some ski resort somewhere & during a lot of the daytime scenes it actually looks pleasantly warm. The acting isn't that good & I didn't think any of the girls looked that good either which didn't help.Yeti: Curse of the Snow Demon is another terrible Sc-Fi Channel 'Creature Feature' if I am honest that any sane person will not like but if your looking for a bit of horror themed fun then this isn't too bad & there are one or two entertaining moments that make it somewhat watchable even if it's not very good.
Yeti and all of its Sci Fi Goodness
posted on 12 Feb 2009Its mediocre and i'm grading it for what it is A B movie now there are many problems here from the acting to the writing to the directing to the Yeti's ridiculous costume (which you can see the actors eyelids and can tell that his hands are really wobbly rubber gloves) to the point you get what i'm saying. Now this movie is about A college football team who must find a way to survive after their plane crashes on a remote mountain during a blizzard. They are heading tp a big game of course led by star Quarter Back Peyton Elway hahahhaha. O my well if you like to laugh this movie will certainly do that like the rabbit hunting scene and the weird and pointless repetitive transitions from live yeti to cgi yeti and yes you really can tell the difference like night and day. But the ending was pretty good also, I will give this movie that. I'll probably throw my copy of yeti in again sometime great crap movie fun.
Not something I would call a masterpiece, but there are worse
posted on 25 Jan 2009The SCI-FI channel brings us another addition to the man eater series, YETI picks up with a bunch of college football players traveling by plane, whose plane crashes in the Himalayas and find themselves having to try and survive the cold and fend of a carnivorous yeti.YETI isn't something I would call a masterpiece, but it is also not one of the worst films ever made, it is mainly just a good time passer to say the least, sure it has tacky looking CGI, it has dialog that is nothing to write home about, and the yeti looks like chewbacca's angry cousin with a bad tan, the acting however is not all bad, I would say that maybe one or two cast members were not so good, and the others did all right.Overall, its a low budget made for TV movie, nothing special, but not the worst film that's out there, and it features chewbacca's angry cousin with a bad tan.
Please don't call this rubbish a movie
posted on 25 Sep 2008I had the misfortune to watch this rubbish on Sky Cinema Max in a cold winter night. I am not a big fan of horror movies, because most of them are just trash. This one is even worse: it is one of the dumbest pieces of crap i've ever seen in my whole life. Horror movie? Yes, there are horrible things in this: the acting, the script and the special effects - Gosh, i laughed at this ludicrous attempt to make a flick for 90 minutes. Actually, had it been a comic movie i would've given it a 5. Don't you even think about renting this unless you want to mock at the producers.Vote: 2 out of 10 - didn't vote one because it made me laugh all the time ;-)
Mostly for laughs
posted on 05 Sep 2008This movie is a sci fi run of the mill script about a Yeti killing humans. Some people crash in the jungle. Two people go to rescue them, and a Yeti tries to kill them.It doesn't take itself too seriously. The actors all do their jobs very well. There's nothing really wrong with the production itself. The script is very tedious and trite. The characters aren't exactly multi dimensional for the most part, but are better than some of what you're used to seeing in modern science fiction.For some reason, everyone is real young in the story. So much so, that it detracts from the story, and makes it look more like a farce.Some of the usual stupid bloody gore to make the nerds laugh, and red necks guffaw. Cute girls, rather attractive cast all around.Probably nothing you'll remember to speak of the next day. But not overly dull or annoying.
There hasn't been a really good film about the title creature, yetI think this will do
posted on 27 Jul 2008In 1972, two guys on the lookout for the elusive yeti, a mythical ape-type creature, in the Himalayas find him but are killed, now in the present day a football team flying to Japan crash land in the aforementioned mountains and meet up with the abominable creature. They must figure out a way to survive both the freezing temperatures and the rampaging beast(s). While technically one can't really call this a 'good' film (the special effects, acting & dialog are all laughably bad), I found this Sci-Fi Original to be funner then a lot of others ones that I've seen (sufferred through). Simply campy fun and a six beer minimum should be required to view it.My Grade: C+DVD Extras: Promo trailer for this film; & trailers for Sci-fi's Maneater series of films, "Vipers", "Anamorph", & "Furnace"
Imbeciles survive a plane crash to meet up with evil snowmen.
posted on 17 Jul 2008Having watched this movie on the SciFi channel, I can only conclude that this film was made by a bunch of amateurs who have never seen a movie in their lives. The film is an endless sequence of bizarre occurrences, or "delights" as the friend reading over my shoulder is telling me. The plot isn't really worth commenting as, but basically a plane carrying football players crashes into Yeti territory. Before the movie is over, we are treated to yetis ripping hearts out, yetis waddling in an effort to run before jumping 50 meters, yetis ripping a man's legs off and beating him with them, a woman killing a rabbit at 30 meters with a javelin, a yeti surviving several bullets and being set on fire with no apparent harm, a yeti dangling off a cliff by holding to a man's shoe, yet then jumps off, and a whole collection of further, bizarre occurrences. Basically, if you aren't staying up on a Saturday for the expressed purpose of watching the worst of SciFi channel original movies, avoid this film like the plague. Or as my friend reading over my shoulder says: "It's the best movie I have ever seen." To which the friend on my right says: "Only battle techno music could have made it better."
Has it's moments, but not all that much
posted on 17 Aug 2009"Yeti: Curse of the Snow Demon" is a grossly underwhelming and disappointing effort.**SPOILERS**Traveling for a football game, Sarah, (Carly Pope) Peyton Marino, (Marc Menard) Kyra, (Elfina Luk) Rice, (Brandon Jay McLauren) James De Ravin, (Adam O'Byrne) Ashley, (Crystal Lowe) Andrew, (Josh Emerson) Rafael Garcia, (Kris Pope) and Dennis, (Aaron Pearl) are stranded by a storm in the Himalayas and find themselves stuck in the freezing environment. Trying to find a way to stay alive, they try several attempts to get out only for the situation to get the best of them. When they start complaining of seeing something strange in the wilderness stalking them and making off with the dead bodies, the rest contribute it to the situation playing tricks with them. When John Sheppard, (Peter DeLuise) and Furie, (Ona Grauer) show up to rescue them, they find themselves under attack by several Abominable Snowmen, known as Yeti's, and are forced to find a way to stay alive in the freezing environment while holding off the creatures until help arrives.The Good News: This one did have a few good stuff to it when it wanted to. The fact that the film has bookends of greatness is it's greatest plus. The opening crash in the mountains is more than passable, based on several rather nice factors. The panic and realism expressed when it starts to plummet is entirely accurate and rather nicely handled, coming off as realistic and certainly builds nicely to what's going to happen, which it does with a great way to actually get the action-packed crash done nicely. The visuals are fine if a little hokey due to the CGI, but it's nice to see it done on something other than the monster and makes for some nice spectacle of the plane tearing through the trees or coming apart as it slides down the mountain. Also quite nice is the first scenes after the wreck, which show them trying to get whatever they can which could be useful away from the plane while tending to the injured and looking for a way to be rescued. The level-headed reaction of the situation is a pleasant surprise, as it's usually followed by a series of scenes where they all tend to wind up just being annoying in the situation, which is a great surprise. The natural reaction to the elements and the tension of the surroundings are all nicely done and work on a great level, adding to the situation. The film also has a great suspense scene in here, where the creatures track a disabled victim through the snow, and utilize an effective escape from the lair and some great suspense through to the escape away in the snow. The ending is almost as good, as it's where we finally get to see the creatures in action against the crew, leading to the only confrontation they have that more than makes up for passing it over. The attacks are well-orchestrated and actually fun, mostly the big attack on them stuck inside the plane. It's one of the better scenes in the film and has a lot to like about it, as the follow-up stalking is done with lots of enjoyment from it. The last plus are that the few kills are actually nice and gory, as there's an arm ripped off, a neck bitten into, a head crushed both underfoot as well as in the bare-hands and having a leg ripped off and devoured, so it has some good gore when it counts. These here are the film's best moments.The Bad News: This one here did have a few flaws to it to keep it down. One of the main reasons is that the film decides to stop being a creature feature midway through the film and instead concentrate on the tension within the group trying to get out alive. This is one of those flaws where, even though it doesn't detract much from the film as they're all fine scenes that play strictly within realism and not going for the more outlandish elements introduced elsewhere, but rather than doing anything to mesh those into the monster story, the film comes off as a rather bland and repetitious due to their being almost nothing major happening because it uses that particular plot-thread to carry the action. It's just one scene after another of them trying to do something about the environment, while the one who constantly second-guesses them does so and eventually everyone erupts out against each other, and it does this for every single tactic devised which gets old very fast. Then it gets just as bad when it turns to the cannibalism angle, which is just purely over-the-top and is quickly dropped when they're burned, making the whole thing a questionable inclusion. However, the worst part is that, due to all these scenes, they divert time away from the snowmen trying to kill them, which only gets a small portion of time at the end to settle matters. The amount of time spent on these instead of the killer snowmen action expected is where it goes to the wrong here. The other flaw here is the few laughable scenes where the creatures display a CGI-enhanced talent of jumping like a kangaroo appropriate to their size, and it fails in just about every possible angle. These are what hurt the film.The Final Verdict: Not exactly all that great, this one comes off as a huge missed opportunity despite having some rather good stuff to it. Really only give this one a chance if you're a fan of the Sci-Fi Channel Creature Features or are a huge Yeti/Bigfoot film fan, otherwise heed caution with it.Rated R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language