Shriek of the Mutilated (1974)

Director:

Michael Findlay

Writers:

Ed Adlum (screenplay) and
Ed Kelleher (screenplay)

Genre:

Horror

Tagline:

A Corpse is Bait in the Trap of Terror!

Plot:

A group of college students are led by their professor into the mountains in search of the Yeti. The students start to be killed off one by one.

Plot Keywords:

Student | Yeti | Decapitation | Cannibal Cult | Partly Teenkill

Cast

Alan Brock	...	Dr. Ernst Prell
Jennifer Stock	...	Karen Hunter
Tawm Ellis	...	Dr. Karl Werner
Michael Harris	...	Keith Henshaw
Darcy Brown	...	Lynn Kelly
Jack Neubeck	...	Tom Nash
Tom Grail	...	Spencer Ste. Claire
Luci Brandt	...	April Ste. Claire
Ivan Agar	...	Laughing Crow
Marina Stefan	...	Party Hostess
Harriet McFaul	...	Girl at Party
Dwight Marfield	...	Station Attendant
Jimmy Silva	...	Policeman
Warren D'Oyly-Rhind	...	Waiter
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ed Adlum	...	Yeti (uncredited)
Michael Findlay	...	Decapitation Onlooker (uncredited)
Ed Kelleher	...	Saturnalia guest (uncredited)

Directed by
Michael Findlay		(as Mike Findlay)

Writing credits
Ed Adlum		(screenplay) and
Ed Kelleher		(screenplay)

Produced by
Ed Adlum	....	producer

Cinematography by
Roberta Findlay		(photographed by)

Film Editing by
Michael Findlay		(as Mike Findlay)

Art Direction by
John Zachio

Costume Design by
Ortun

Makeup Department
Maxim Kinsky	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Pat Triarch	....	production manager

Camera and Electrical Department
Ambrosio Bernal	....	assistant camera

Other crew
Kay Kressi	....	continuity
Joe Scarpinito	....	location coordinator

Production Companies

• Ed Adlum and Mike Findlay Productions (as an Ed Adlum and Mike Findlay production)

Distributors

• American Films Ltd. (1974) (USA) (theatrical)
• Lightning Video (1985) (USA) (VHS)
• Live Video (USA) (VHS)
• Something Weird Video (SWV) (1995) (USA) (VHS)
• Retromedia Entertainment (2003) (USA) (DVD)
• Retromedia Entertainment (2006) (USA) (DVD) (on "Bigfoot Terror")

Other Companies

• American Films Ltd.  presented by
• Magno Sound  sound mixing (as Magno Sound)

Also Known As:

Mutilated
Scream of the Snowbeast (USA) (TV title)

Runtime:

USA:86 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:R

Filming Locations:

Croton-on-Hudson, New York, USA

Company:

Ed Adlum and Mike Findlay Productions

Goofs:

Plot holes: Dr. Prell and Karl talk about how the code of the Voltaire demands no body bruises and how a victim must be scared to death. Later, at the big breakfast, they go around toasting past party hosts, bringing up highlights which include an avalanche and auto crashes. Wouldn't those two scenarios inflict body bruises?

Quotes:

Karl: Is something wrong, Tom?
Tom: Nothing a good stomach pump wouldn't cure.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Dusk to Dawn Drive-In Trash-o-Rama Show Vol. 6 (1999) (V)

Soundtrack:

Dream of a Sabbath Night

Fun... The campy cheese-fest

Did you ever wonder what happen the Fluffy, the sheepdog that the Brady Bunch kids owed for two or three seasons? Well, apparently he moved to upstate New York and began killing nerdy teenagers. This schlocky Yeti film is just about the campiest of the cinema-de-sasquatch genre. So you bigfootiphiles out there might want to see it purely for the novelty value. However you might find the plot familiar... a group of four teenagers arrive in a van to investigate the local mystery of a supposed "yeti". Yup, this story plays out like a cross between Scooby Do and something by Herschell Gordon Lewis. Seriously, there is the awkward guy, another guy that looks fairly butch but sings show tunes, a pretty girl and the nerdy girl, with the mousy brown hair and thick horn-rim glasses. It is all there for ya, minus only the Great Dane(who must have had a better agent). The acting is bad enough to make this truly enjoyable. The plot is all over the place. The gay subtext of the relationship between the professor, the owner of the island which the Yeti inhabits, and is mute Indian "man servant" is enough to keep you scratching your head.

What other movie contains an impromptu musical interlude with lyrics like "he'll turn your threesome into a twosome... watchout...it's the Yetiiiiiii....?"

If you like cheesy B movies this will fill the bill...