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Yeti: Maneater Series

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"Yeti: Curse of the Snow Demon" was released for the Sci-Fi channel in 2008. It tells the story of a college football team suffering a plane crash in the Himalayas where many die, but this is only the beginning of their problems. The surviving members have no choice but to resort to cannibalism, while the cave lair of the Abominable Snowman is nearby. Horror ensues.

Whoa, this has got to be the worst modern film I've seen. It certainly has some positive aspects -- the mountainous British Columbia locations, the actors, the serious vibe (everyone plays it straight and the melodramatic soundtrack backs 'em up), heck, even the Yeti costume isn't all that bad when not overexposed -- but other than these factors this film is truly godawful, so gloriously BAD you have to see it to believe it, so BAD I literally felt sorry for the actors who, again, were all giving it their best shot of seriousness.

Is it so bad it's funny? YES! I was laughing my butt off through every supposedly horrifying, dramatic and horrible-cgi scene (take note -- the CGI work is some of the worst I've ever seen). So, the film's definitely worthwhile as a so-bad-it's-funny piece. This is the only reason I can think anyone would actually be willing to buy it on dvd.

Keep in mind that I'm a very generous reviewer and have the ability to look beyond production deficiencies and glean any goodness from the heart of a film. Take for instance 2005's "Sasquatch Hunters" which, like "Yeti," is a made-for-tv grade-B Bigfoot flick. That movie is worthwhile for this type of film as detailed in my long review. The same can be said for "Abominable" and "Sasquatch Mountain" (the latter being the best of the batch).

Not so with "Yeti." This is a modern-day "Plan 9 from Outer Space." Don't trust any of the supposed 5/5 Star reviews; they're being sarcastic.

You have been warned.

Saw this on the sci-fi channel and it was so bad it was hysterically funny. Had to buy it and am not disappointed. Best scene - yeti catches up to someone, rips his leg off and beats him with it - classic. buy this movie.

I love LOVE bad Bigfoot movies. Even the really bad ones like "Sasquatch" are at least a fun way to kill some time while you drink enough of your favorite distillate to get happy. But this movie is on a whole different level. A low level. A really really low level. One that isn't fun.

For starters, the scene portrayed on the cover isn't even remotely related to anything in the movie. The Yeti is played by a guy in a horrible white suit that looks like the fx team had about $4.50 and 20 minutes of time to pull together. It's about 5'6", but claimed to be over 9 feet tall?! In other scenes, it looks like the fx crew ripped off scenes from a bad video game. The cgi most closely resembles a really rough rough cut of a proposed Donkey Kong/Resident Evil crossover. I was too stunned to laugh or cry.

The actors are equally bad. Supposed to be a football team from "State College", these small, whiny losers look like they're more at home at that place where only D-movie actor-wannabes hang out. Thankfully, I have no idea where that place is. It's not even fun trying to figure out who dies next. I kept hoping they'd all die at once and that the cgi Yet-zombie thing would dance around for the remainder of the movie like the Ogga-Chakka baby. No dice.

Do yourself a favor and spend your money on something less painful like letting that bratty kid down the block smack you in the kneecap with a sledge hammer for a half hour or so. You'll thank me in the end.

"Yeti" (also known as "Yeti: Curse of the Snow Demon") is a horrible but hilarious Sasquatch flick from The Sci-Fi channel with every stereotype and cliche in the book, plus a few new ones. The film features terrible CGI, a ludicrous script, and horrid acting for starters. In a nutshell, a college football team (and assorted random females) from "State College" are flying from the US to Japan when they crash in Nepal and are chased by a Yeti. Therein my first problem is revealed: what airline goes from the continental United States to Japan via Nepal? Just a tad out of the way, you say? Well, that is probably the most believable element of the film.

While over the Himalayas, the plane (the filmmakers can't decide if it's a 737, 747, or business jet, but I won't nitpick) encounters a storm and crashes. Suffice it to say that the CGI 747, storm, and plane crash are unbelievably unrealistic for a film made in 2008. Even worse, the whiny cast is so annoying that you may, like me, be hoping the Himalayan Yetis defeat The State College Grizzlies in the Bigfoot Bowl. Not only can't the cast act, but they really don't have much to work with: the script is the only thing worse than the CGI.

After the crash, the cast looks around for food in everyone's backpacks and pockets, but it never even dawns on them to look in the galley before the cannibalism subplot emerges. (A football team stuck in the mountains resorting to cannibalism? Now there's an original idea....) After the coach says something motivating to the handsome quarterback and promptly dies, the cast turns on each other despite the obvious menace that keeps raiding the camp for bodies. The Yeti is very angry, and not only runs, but hops and jumps (you have to see this CGI to believe it) in a menacing way, all the while looking like a cross between Chewbacca with mange, the Cowardly Lion with head lice, and Robert Z'Dar after being in an autoclave. (These filmmakers only wish they had someone of Z'Dar's talent.)

The cast goes hunting for rabbit with a piece of luggage and a stick, but it's the pretty girl who saves the day and brings home the hasenpfeffer in another wholly credible scene. While the main cast is dabbling in cannibalism and honing their survival skills, there are two parallel plots about a brave second-string player in search of the plane's radio who evades the lightning-fast Yeti for five days with two broken legs (!), and a couple of people from the Yeti patrol (or some such nonsense) who are hiking across the mountains to rescue the crash survivors. Their hike through the Himalayas looks more like an outing at Park City, Utah with glorious sunshine and a shallow base of powdery snow. The three disparate elements finally unify, although in the process they validate the old Himalayan adage "Never let the blowhard jock have the flare gun."

As the cast converges, they are presented with a quandary: the Yeti has kidnapped the quarterback's girlfriend. Should they look for her or not? Of course they do, and they find her in a cave asleep and spooning with the Yeti. Their plan to rescue her defies belief, and involves digging a deep trench outside the cave in sheer rock, in absolute silence, placing spears in the bottom for the Yeti to fall on, subsequently causing an avalanche to bury the Yeti, but not them. Stunningly, this seems to work, although be prepared for multiple tedious false endings. In the end the football star uses his gridiron skills and tackles the Yeti into submission, taking him out of bounds and off a cliff with an assist from the rabbit slayer. Oh, and the two principals fall in love. Obviously.

This movie is one of the most predictable of all films, and would have been an excellent episode of "Mystery Science Theater 3000." It does have good camp value, and is well worth laughing at if you can endure the annoying cast. It has zero value as a "serious" monster movie. It is unscary and ridiculous at every turn. The DVD has a trailer, but no other extras, but it is extremely annoying in that it features a long set of previews that you cannot skip at the beginning of the film. As real entertainment this film scores nil, as a film to mock it is off the chart, so I was tempted to average it out and give it three stars, but the previews and irritating cast took it down to two.

So I stumble upon this masterpiece on SyFy the other night and was immediately hooked. I didn't see it from the beginning, but in the first scene I watched, some guy is trying to escape from the Yeti and his buddy gets caught and has his arm ripped off. The survivor then breaks his leg falling down some rocks, but uses his buddy's severed arm as a splint to climb his way to safety. The movie got progressively worse (or more awesome, depending on how you look at it) from there. I don't want to ruin it for the rest of you, but other scenes include the guy with the broken leg and severed arm splint getting shot in the face with a flare gun, the Yeti ripping someone's heart out, the Yeti spooning with the token hottie (who somehow stays alive and attractive in just a hooded sweatshirt in the Himalayas), and the star football player laying out the Yeti with a form tackle. Oh that's right, the Yeti rips off a leg of one of the rescuers and then beats him with it. I can't figure out if that part or the form tackle part was my favorite. By the end of the movie I was laughing so hard that my belly hurt. I highly recommend spending the $15 or whatever to get this movie, have some friends over, get a case of beer, and prepare to laugh your ass off.

excellent movie, strongly recommend. about a plane loaded with a foot ball team from college, almost looks like Penn
state players. but the plane crashed and they r not alone. good suspense, little gore, strongly recommend. no nudity whatsoever.

This movie is really bad. A group of football players crash in the mountains and get attacked by a Yeti. This film features some of the worst CG effects I've ever seen and includes a great scene where the Yeti rips off a guys leg and then beats him with it. LOL funny. My recommendation: rental only. If you get lucky you can catch it on Sci-Fi.

"Yeti" is not the worst horror movie ever made but it tries pretty aggresively to be. A football team is on the way to the Orient for a exhibition football game. Their plane crashes in the Himilayas' and then the stupid begins. The survivors crawl out of the plane and despite the below zero weather they wear lightweight jerseys and shirts. After about 20 minutes, right on cue, someone notices that it is pretty cold. Everyone agrees and again on cue start to shiver. They search the luggage on the plane and are soon garbed in winter gear-but because we need to see the actors faces, they can survive the frigid weather without ski masks or gloves.

I guess I forgot to mention but the team has brought along some cheerleaders-the movie does need females to shreik in terror whenever they come across the Yeti, which looks like Chewbacca in a white fur coat.

With no food the survivors decide to eat their dead friends and although repulsed at first, they soon begin to chow down on "leg of Steve". They even set up a barbecue spit to cook the vittles. They have competition for the "food" as every once in awhile the Yeti drags off a body to snack on. The movie was so stupid I was hoping against hope that when the Yeti was dragging a body away, one of the footballers would cry out, "Hey, the Yeti just stole our lunch."

There is some gore but only watch this movie on the sci-fi channel-don't waste your money renting it.

I first saw this on the SciFi channel. My family and I love monster movies. This can't be considered a horror movie or it would get no stars. It appears they filmed this movie over a long weekend in the Canadian mountains.
The plot is as typical and highly predicable, but it is fun to wager on who will be the Yeti's next meal. The special effects are abysmal and consistant mostly of a large man in a latex and white fur ape suit. There is some very low end CGI which appears to have been added as an after thought.
The best scene involves Peter DeLouise being tackled by a Yeti and then beaten with his own leg before the Yeti takes a bite of it.
It's a sad sad attempt at a horror movie but funnier then most bad horror movies. This is a prime candidate for Mystery Science Theater 3000.

Another Yeti/Bigfoot film that suffers from stupid script, obvious illogical Production interference or director delusion!
it was all good to begin with and the Yeti creature suit looks cool - but the CGI animation and the jumping 40 metres like Ang Lee's HUlk is preposterous and sends an instant message to us Yeti addicts that these business suit, pen pushing, clerk-type people ( much like Mummy 3 CGI Yeti's handling!! ...wot the?) are in it for the simple bucks and have no interest in the material what so ever... just treating it like a CG game film fodder, with a outlet straight to the dvd rubbish heap.
i find it hard to recommend this film to anyone... it plainly suffers from stupidity...and CG moments of staggering dumbness..
at least Abominable (bigfoot film) handled its subject with a bit of realism - except for stretchy jaw stuff!

i just wish these lowbrow-pulp film makers would go back to TVC or corporate doco land and let someone with talent and respect for the Yeti do us a descent Yeti film... even the Peter Cushing old classic is a preferable watch than this waste of opportunity.