good back-story, and good acting

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

SNOWBEAST has a good-looking cast and majestic scenery, but is nothing more than a JAWS retread. Instead of the ocean, we're in the Colorado mountains. Instead of beach season, it's Winter Carnival. Instead of a shark, there's a homicidal Yeti. Instead of Roy Scheider, there's Clint Walker. Instead of a boat, they're gonna need a bigger snowmobile.The cast includes Bo Svensson as a retired Olympic skier who's afraid to return to the slopes, Yvette Mimieux as his estranged wife, Robert Logan as a family friend who's also in love with Mimieux's character (the sub-plot goes nowhere), Clint Walker as the beleaguered sheriff, and Sylvia Sidney as a ski-resort owner who doesn't want the slopes shut down just because a monster is tearing people to shreds with its big-ass claws. The only decent performance is Mimieux's, though Svensson at least appeared to enjoy playing his role.Since this was a TV movie, the killings are implied rather than seen. (Remember, this was the age of the Family Hour.) In fact, we barely see the creature at all. SNOWBEAST primarily consists of endless scenes of skiing, snowmobiling, and the uninteresting cast of characters baring their souls between Yeti murders.Life hack: if a snowbeast is charging at you and you're out of bullets, stab the monster with your ski pole. This will knock it backward into a conveniently located gully, where the creature will drop to the bottom and passively wait to die. At least, that's what happens here.

Aside from the blatant ripping off of Jaws (when they suggest cutting the first "monster" killed open I just about turned it off), the biggest problem this movie has is the mere seconds the Snowbeast has on camera. This probably was either because of a budget constraint or because the director decided to copy Jaws again and not reveal the monster too soon. But Jaws did have a long climactic battle where we see plenty of the shark, whereas Snowbeast just has our heroes repeatedly returning to the same barn and being surprised when the yeti attacks them again. Way too much of the later movie especially is seen from the creature's eyes, and we just don't see it enough. We don't even see its carcass at the end!

Goofy film about a local marauding Bigfoot-type creature when the movie should really be about the abominable snowman since the story is set at a SKI LODGE... in the SNOW... up in the MOUNTAINS... in the SNOW.....Yvette Mimieux is smokin' hot as the wife of a cowardly skier who hits up a really bad actor for a job. Unintentional humor abounds, the highlights of which include two dumbbells talking business in a hot tub while wearing speedos, and a funeral procession firing a five-gun salute in avalanche country.The 'beast' is not shown until much later in the film and when he does appear, he looks like he has a hangover -- probably because he tied one on the night before knowing he had to be in this stupid movie.

Skiing. Yetis. Obviously this is a video game movie of SkiFree. And like most video game movies, it sucks. I also got this in a Mill Creek "Chiller" pack.Some have described it as "Jaws with snow," which isn't far off. First person Yeti-cam, main character wants to close down the park after a gruesome death. Higher authority says no in the name of profit, and wont cave after more deaths until they see it first hand. i can see the resemblance. Just replace "it wasn't a shark, it was a boat rudder" with "it wasn't a yeti, it was an avalanche." It's low-budget, made for TV B-Grade horror. And although I tend to enjoy a good laugh at a goofy B-Film, this wasn't even all that laughable. I can see why this was included in a $5 set of 20 Films no one had the rights to. Because no one would want the rights to this.Much like the mutilated body of a Yeti victim, there's not much to salvage here.