I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

There was a wave of films about the abominable snowman back in the 1950s and this is one of the weaker efforts. A typical B-movie, it takes an age for the film to get going and when the Yeti finally does make an appearance it's just an ordinary guy in a very poor-fitting monster suit. A cast of wooden and cliched characters spend a heck of a long time discussing various pressing and non-pressing issues before the snowman is shipped off to Los Angeles, where it escapes from cold storage and goes on a low rent rampage. This reminded me of the Lon Chaney Jr. vehicle THE INDESTRUCTIBLE MAN and is of a similar quality.

"The Snow Creature" (1954) is a black & white picture notable as the first film to address the topic of Bigfoot or, in this case, Yeti. The atmospheric beginning segues into a relatively dull story about a fake-looking Yeti brought to America from the Himilayas, which ends up languishing in customs while officials debate whether or not the creature is a passenger or cargo, i.e. animal or human. I'm not making this up. Then the creature gets loose in the city a la "King Kong." "The Snow Creature" is worthwhile only for historical reasons or as an interesting period piece and people smitten with the Sasquatch legend.The film runs 71 minutes and was shot in Bronson Caves, Bronson Canyon, Griffith Park, Los Angeles, California, USA GRADE: D+

Here is another low-budget B movie for the snow pile. Brought to you by W. Lee Wilder who gave use such films as Phantom from Space(1953) and the Killers from Space(1954). The movie starts out with an expedition to the Himalayas, but they find and capture a yeti and bring it back to civilization.I am very interested into cryptozoological(study of hidden animals) creatures such as the Yeti, Bigfoot, Nessie and many others. Although this is the first movie about the Yeti it is also one of the worst. There's no science offered to either explain the monster's existence or to deal with him. It is more or less a rip-off of King Kong(1933) and the Los Angeles sewer scene from Them(1954). The ending is very anti-climatic too. We are not given any reason to feel sorry for the Yeti and he is just netted and shot dead, movie over.

A mountain climbing expedition encounters a big freaking snow monster who watches them from above the snow-line while they take pictures of weeds and freeze in their wind-battered tents at extreme altitudes.... oooh, funnn! Later, one of these schmucks captures the beast, straps him to a tarp, and sends him to Los Angeles in a goofy icebox, but some lame cop murders it before it can find an apartment and become part of the community.Director W. Lee Wilder's 'abominable snowman' flick. Clumsy and incredulous, but concomitantly the most trenchant film of Wilder's career.