Official Score = 1 1/2 Devils[/caption]One element that I have always enjoyed about horror movies are monster movies… Rather they be earth bound monsters, insects turned to monsters from toxic waste, or monsters from another planet, I have always found those to be rather interesting… Why?
Well simply put, (especially in the older monster movies), it brought together a group of people to combat (most of the time, based on the time in which the movie was made), a creature that could conceivably occur in nature (Alien or Earth Bound)… And in some cases it has shown factions that could not initially get along.
The other thing that I thought that I would mention here is the fact that most of the time, monster movies generally tend to have an awesome story line!
The first thing that I mentioned above, is what I loved about, The Snow Creature (1954)!
Written by: Myles Wilder (Phantom From Space) & W. Lee Wilder (Killers From Space). Starring: Paul Langton (Invisible Invaders), Leslie Denison (Signpost To Murder), William Phipps (War Of The Worlds), & Robert Bice (It! The Terror From Beyond Space).
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An interesting movie poster for a movie that all I can say is... meh![/caption]This movie, (which I suspect was inspired by the movie King Kong (1933)), tells the story of a botanist by the name of Frank Parrish (Langton), who mounts an expedition in to the wilds of the Himalaya Mountains… While he is there though, word comes that his lead Sherpa’s, ‘woman’ has been taken by a Yeti…
Grief stricken, the Sherpa and his men kidnap Parrish and his British Photographer by the name of Peter Wells (Denison) in an effort to find the Yeti and destroy it…
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The expedition as they make their way up the Himalaya Mountains![/caption]Once they find it though, and after a cave in that was caused by the Yeti, Parrish and Wells turn the tables on the Sherpas and force the Sherpa team to take the now sedated beast down the mountain so that Parrish can take it back to the United States to study.
Once they get to the States though, the monster breaks free of his prison, and it will be up to Parrish, a LAPD Lieutenant by the name of, ‘Dunbar’ (Phipps) to stop the beast from tearing up the mean streets of LA, before the beast can do to much damage!
In the end, I mentioned above about the monster that people in monster movies have to fight being cool… Well this is no exception! Considering when this movie came out, the monster in this movie looked pretty awesome!
As for the story, the truth is, is the story was to long on their time in the Himalaya’s (and frankly at first it was cool, but after a while it got to be kind of old…)
In the end though, if you can get passed the over use of their time in the Himalaya’s, then you might find this movie to be rather enjoyable… I did.
http://youtu.be/3GEL_b2oTZQ
The phantom from, 'Phantom From Space' (1953)![/caption]
This Alien is going to have to figure out his way around our world before he dies![/caption]