Freaktana A Major Disappointment

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

BallWubba Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

stevepat99 I was tempted to abort this movie but plowed ahead just to see how these OK actors were dealing with a mostly nonsensical script. Best example: Lead scientist Jim (Schneider) tells everyone 'I'll take the snow mobile to the ranger station to get help'(the trip would be hugely dangerous). As he leaves he turns and says, 'meanwhile call the ranger station and tell them I'm coming.' I'm scratching my head... why go when you can call and ask for the rangers to send help?See Beastley's review...spot on! The group stares at great video, from their remote cameras, clearly showing a yetti or Abominable Snowman prancing around. Clear as day. It takes five minutes of like, what can that be? A bear standing up? Yada yada.... till Rob finally says...looks like a Yetti to which Jim says.... naw they're in the Himalayas. As if this scientist is clueless of hundreds of sightings in North America. Emmy goes out alone to photograph the beast, knowing it has killed people, taking a tranquilizer gun and promptly leaves the gun on her car seat.Father and daughter doing high fives minutes after major tragedy has occurred. No explanation of why their beastly videos did not survive. Next, a hugely tall powerful beast that is too weak to break down a door. Rob stares at a huge pool of blood and does not mention it to Jim who is several feet away. Two men go out to find Emmy and take no weapons of any kind.I have rarely seen such a defective script. It left me rooting for the beast.

Wuchak "Snowbeast" is a 2011 TV remake of the 1977 TV film of the same name. This one stars John Schneider.The titular monster is a yeti, basically a bigfoot that lives high in the snowy mountains. In the original film the snowbeast was hanging around Crested Butte ski resort, Colorado, which is where the film was shot; this remake largely takes place around a posh cabin in the Canadian Rockies. A ski resort is nearby but you'll barely see it. The original movie ripped-off the plot of "Jaws" verbatim and just relocated it to a ski resort while this remake throws out most of the "Jaws" similarities.The yeti in the original looked quite good for a TV film from 1977, nice and malevolent. I suppose it helped that you hardly got to see the creature. Less is more, as they say.Which brings us to the main problem with this remake: The yeti is fully seen early on and continues to appear throughout the rest of the film. This wouldn't be a problem if the monster costume was convincing, but that's not the case. The head and face look good, especially the eyes and mouth - very monstrous - but the rest of the costume looks really fake. The body of fur just doesn't look real or lived-in. In fact, it looks like the beast just came from the dry cleaners. Couldn't the producers have spent another grand on the title creature's appearance?But the cast is good and likable. John Schneider plays a scientist studying lynx in Canada. He brings two colleagues and his daughter from Florida. Meanwhile, the local police department investigates a couple cases of missing persons that, of course, lead to the beast.For some reason, Schneider is perfect for these types of roles. He's just an all-around quality protagonist. Jason London is also on hand as one of the policeman.Another big plus are the two women: Danielle Chuchran, who plays Schneider's teen daughter Emmy, and Kari Hawker, who plays Schneider's young brunette colleague, Marci, with whom he seems to have a (mutual) interest. Each is totally gorgeous in different ways.The snowy Rocky Mountain locations are another plus; very scenic.CONCLUSION: Both films are about the same quality, although the original version loses points for being a wholesale rip-off of "Jaws." Each were made as traditional monster movies and are therefore pleasantly derivative. In other words, don't look for originality or cutting edge cinema, just enjoy them for what they are. The only major flaw of this remake is the fake-looking fur suit of the creature, which engenders laughs more than frights (although, again, the head & face look good). The plot is much thinner than the original, but the story is somehow less boring, which indicates solid storytelling or maybe they hooked me in with the likable cast. Probably both.GRADE: C+ or B-

eagilmore15 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.

TheLittleSongbird In all honesty I wasn't expecting much, and once again I didn't get much. Certainly I have seen much worse than Snow Beast, but overall I found it lame, with the only really good attributes being the scenery and John Schneider's performance. The effects are really not very good, the creature of the title is cheap looking, restricted in movement and not very menacing or terrifying at all. The script is cheesy and aimless, the story reeks of predictability, the pace is overly-languid and dull, not helped by the too-talky nature of some scenes, and the other actors look wooden, unsurprisingly unable to do anything to their uninteresting and stereotypical characters.All in all, not the worst film I've seen, but lame with not much point to it. 3/10 Bethany Cox