The movie is about a ski resort in Colorado which is celebrating its fiftieth winter carnival. The resort makes a lot of business during this time and it brings life to the town. Things seem to be going smoothly, until someone comes back from skiing claiming there is a monster that killed her friend. The owners Grandson, Tony, tries to calm the witness and sends out a search party to find the missing skier. On the search, Tony finds large tracks in the snow. He follows them to a bloody jacket. A roar comes from the forest and Tony gets back to the group and says the area is cordoned off.
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| You know what they say about big feet? |
During this, Gar Seberg and his wife, Ellen, show up at the resort. Gar was the winner of the olympic gold metal for skiing but has done very little after his fame. He came to the resort to talk to Tony about getting a job there. When Tony comes back, he brushes past Gar and heads straight to his grandmother. He tells her what he believes happened and she is skeptical. She tells Tony not talk to the police and wait until after the carnival to make a statement. Gar eventually talks to Tony where he is given the job of monster hunter extraordinaire. Gar isn't afraid (I freaking would be), his wife is a reporter and did a story on bigfoot creatures. He says he'll do it but he is conflicted since he feels the creature is docile and doesn't mean harm.
Later, Gar and Tony are asked by the police chief to come to a barn where the vitcim was possibly found. Tony identifies the mangled carcass as that of the missing girl and explains he needed to keep this under wraps for the town's sake. The chief agrees and says the police will say it was a crazed bear. Gar, seeing the brutality of the creature, decides that whatever did that deserves to die.
Back in town, everyone is setting up for the winter carnival. As the queen of the festival is preparing she sees something through the window pane.
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| OMG! Monster! |
and dear God, there it is!
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| Monster?! Where?! |
The beast starts attacking, but focuses his attention on a passing car. The driver sees the yeti and instead of driving away in the running car; she screams and is then killed. The owner of the resort was sorry about keeping everything a secret and begs for forgiveness. Gar says he'll take care of the monster and make things right. It's not until later that his wife has gone missing (she felt the need to go out alone and find this brutal killing machine...because reasons). Gar goes into the night, and finds her in an abandoned cabin. A romance is rekindled and then YETI! The chief and his men show up to the cabin just in time to see something run into the woods. The police go off to take care of it. When Gar and his wife meet back up in town to talk to Tony; the police say the chief killed the monster. Everyone is happy and exited... well everyone except our heroes because the police brought back a dead bear.
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| Some school's gonna be pissed about their mascot dying |
Knowing that the monster was still loose; Tony, Gar, Ellen, and The Chief go out to hunt down the real creature and finish this mess once and for all. The creature is getting crafty and attacks the group as they are camping. It manages to kill the chief hinders them from getting the rifles. Gar takes the chief's side arm and shoots the snow beast. Injured, it wanders off. Gar chases after it while Tony and Ellen get the rifles. The monster turns around and sees Gar. He unloads his all his ammo in the monster, but he is out of bullets. The creature charges and Gar posts his ski pole against a tree as it lunges for him. It is impaled on the pole and slides down the side of the mountain dead. The heroes look down at what they have accomplished happy that they completed their good dead for the day.
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| I've seen The Edge. Let's do this |
This was the pot of gold under the rainbow. The past couple days I have gone through some real stinkers when it came to these movies. Snowbeast has given me everything I expected and more. The story was pretty well done (a bit too close to the format of Jaws but why mess with perfection). The acting was actually very good. At no point was I taken out of the story because of bad lip syncing or poor line delivery. The editing, set design, and monster costume were well done (surprising as this was a made for TV movie). The only down side I have for this movie is the face of the monster. It looked like the cowardly lion got his face frozen after he stuck his finger into an electrical socket. It's depressing because they would show you the monster's hands as it attacks someone and it looked great. I guess I'm too spoiled by snow creatues because Empire Strikes Back did it best. Other than the face, the rest of the costume looked awesome.
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| damn humidity making my hair frizzy |
I would recommend this to someone who was looking for a diamond in the rough monster movie. It was well acted and directed. There is actually a remake that came out in 2011 which is pretty amazing. I give this movie, five screaming skiers out of ten. Totally worth any B movie fan's time. Certainly the best of the five days, but hopefully not the last.
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| Fist his arm. Then his cousin. What's next? |
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