Bloody Snow

We all know what we are in for when you sit down to watch a sci-fi channel original movie...crap. I have to admit some of this crap can be entertaining in a "so bad it's good" kind of way, and when I found out about the newest one called Yeti: Curse of the snow demon, I cancelled all plans for that night so I could watch this true gem that turned out to be far more entertaining than I anticipated.
When a football teams plane crashes in the Himalayas, it is up to the passengers to find a way to survive the brutal freezing conditions, and just when it could not get any worse for these throwaway actors, they begin to be stalked by mysterious, bloodthirsty beast roaming the frozen tundra. The Yeti dwells with in the near by caves where it drags it's victims to and feeds on the remains. The yeti itself looks really mangy with sparse hair here and there and the face is that of a demon. It took 3 and 1/2 hours each day to get the actor into the full yeti suit, and this guy does a lot of running in heavy snow conditions. The acting is horrendous and the story is pretty straight forward. You actually get to see the Yeti's face close up within the first few minutes of the film, so they really waste no time with getting straight to the point which is good for a film like this.
It does get pretty Gorey in a few scenes including someones arm being ripped off, a beating heart ripped out of a chest, a head stomped on and smashed like a melon, a leg ripped off and then the victim beaten with it and many, many more. At about the half way mark there is a startling revelation, we find out the Yeti can leap 100 yards in one bound, really notching up the cheese factor a few more degrees. Then you get the horrible CGI of the yeti running and leaping which is video game quality at best taking this movie to a whole new level of laughably-bad goodness making it the best sci-fi original I have seen yet...by far.
I literally was laughing out loud throughout the whole film.
This masterpiece of B cinema was written by Rafeal Jordan and directed by Paul Ziller. It's stars a cast of no name actors who will probably remain so after being in this. Sci-fi calls this film “a mix of Friday The 13th, Alive and Predator.”, very far fetched.
I have subjected myself to a lot of Sasquatch, Bigfoot and yeti films such as Abominable, The legend of Bigfoot, Snow beast, The snow creature, Search for the beast, Shriek of the mutilated, The capture of Bigfoot, The boggy creek films and a hand-full of others and I have to say this one is up there, probably in my top five. If a massive blizzard hits and you are completely snowed in and you have a six pack to kill pop this movie in and enjoy the campiness, you will not be sorry. This rating is based on the "so bad it's good" factor.

Rating: C+
Review by Jason
Yeti hits DVD on January 13th