The Snow Creature

Actors: Paul Langton, Leslie Denison, Taru Shimada

Rating: 1 out of 10, Deliciously bad cinema. This is really two bad movies spliced together to form a longer, really bad movie. Two culturally insensitive botanists are on a trek into the Himalayas with native guides who speak Japanese for some untold reason. The guides shanghai the Americans after the leader’s wife is kidnapped by a yeti and they’re off in pursuit. They eventually capture it and everything is forgiven. The next part involves getting the yeti back to the US and here they fall afoul of the INS which was tough even back in the 1950s. The immigration service can’t decide if the yeti is human and therefore in need of a visa. While they dither the yeti escapes from his refrigerator and terrorizes the city. The yeti’s costume was historically bad. It looks like they eviscerated a bunch of stuffed animals and taped them to a large actor. That was almost as bad as the acting.

MVP: Paul Langton as Frank Parrish