Yeti: Curse of the Snow Demon (2008) (TV)

User Rating:

3.9/10   

Director:

Paul Ziller

Writer:

Rafael Jordan (writer)

Release Date:

8 November 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Horror

Tagline:

Surviving the crash was only the beginning...

Plot Keywords:

Cannibalism | Severed Arm | Skull Crushing | Gore | Yeti

Cast

Carly Pope	...	Sarah
Marc Menard	...	Peyton Elway
Adam O'Byrne	...	James De Ravin
Ed Marinaro	...	Professor
Ona Grauer	...	Fury
Crystal Lowe	...	Ashley (as Chrystal Lowe)
Brandon Jay McLaren	...	Rice
Elfina Luk	...	Kyra
Kris Pope	...	Rafael Garcia
Christian Tessier	...	Dixon
Peter DeLuise	...	John Sheppard
Taras Kostyuk	...	Yeti
Josh Emerson	...	Andrew
Aaron Pearl	...	H.W. Tilman

Runtime:

87 min

Country:

USA | Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Germany:16 | USA:Not Rated (DVD)

Filming Locations:

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

American World Pictures (AWP)

Trivia:

It took 3 and 1/2 hours each day to get the actor into the full yeti suit.

Goofs:

Continuity: The guy misses the rabbit with the suitcase and the girl spears it. In the next scene they are back at the camp cooking what is supposed to be a rabbit but what we see is a chicken. Rabbits don't have wings and drumsticks.

Movie Connections:

References "In Search of..." (1976)

Do the small things better

Ah 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..."