2/5 Yep, it's definitely abominable
  by Daniel Jolley (Shelby, North Carolina USA)
It's 1954, a golden age in the monster movie genre, a time when foreign cultures existed only to be exploited and ridiculed, when botanists never left home without a syringe and an ample volume of heavy duty sedative, when the idea of capturing a monster on the other side of the world and transporting it back to the States still seemed like a good idea, and when you could put a fur hat with earmuffs on some bearded dude and cast him as a monster (heck, you could even put some scrawny guy in a bedraggled fur outfit and pass him off as the self-same monster, despite the fact that the two could not be more dissimilar in appearance).

Our story begins with Dr. Frank Parrish (Paul Langton) and photographer Peter Wells (Leslie Denison) rounding up a guide and a crew of Sherpas (whom they compare to pack mules), then heading up into the Himalayas in order for Parrish to study the area's plant life. Things are going fine until Subra (Teru Shimada), the only English-speaking guide they could find, receives word that his wife has been kidnapped by a Yeti. Naturally, Parrish laughs off such a preposterous story and insists that Subra stay and do his job. A small mutiny later, the two dumb Americans find themselves with no choice but to accompany Subra in his search for the creature. Once he's made to eat his condescending words, of course, Palmer - like all dedicated scientists - thinks about nothing but the fame and fortune that would surely come his way if he brought the Yeti back home with him. After all, what could possibly go wrong?

The Snow Creature does provide the viewer with a few memorable moments. Personally, I thought it was quite funny when a cop asked for a description of the snow creature, and you can't help but chuckle when the beast's immigration status is debated. My favorite stupid moment, though, comes courtesy of the remarkable logic demonstrated by the L.A. inspector responsible for tracking down the escaped creature. Once the Yeti is spotted in three different locations, he connects the dots on the map and insists that the exceedingly hairy fugitive has to be somewhere in the middle of that triangle. This guy makes Inspector Clouseau look like Sherlock Holmes.

The only thing that makes The Snow Creature stand out from the crowd of other highly forgettable 1950's science fiction/monster movies is the fact that it was produced and directed by W. Lee Wilder, who just happens to be the brother of Billy Wilder. Billy reportedly described his older brother as a boring son of a gun (well, something like that, anyway), and The Snow Creature makes it easy to see why.

1/5 some monster movies are so bad that not even I can like them
  by Robert J. Crawford (Balmette Talloires, France)
This is a lousy formula film: scientists finds mysterious monster, it escapes, then, well, you can guess. This is so bad that it is not even good for laughs. The acting is wooden, and even the Tibetans are speaking in Japanese! There are no good characters, and plots twists are thrown in haphazardly for deus ex machina purposes. Not recommended. I am an old monster movie connoisseur, but some are so poor that nothing much good can be found in them.

2/5 That was only 69 minutes????!!!!!
  by Marilyn Jones (Austin, Texas)
Wow. It seemed like three hours. The beginning was nearly interesting but it turned into a real snorefest. One of these reviews said the movie was so bad it was good. No. It's so bad, it's just awful.

2/5 Lee Wilder turns in a borefest this time around
  by danger ex machina (Philadelphia, PA)
I kind of dig the other two Lee Wilder movies I've seen, Killers From Space with Peter Graves, and Phantom From Outer Space. The actor who played the professor in PFOS has a small role here. Snow Creature, however, is a pretty boring King Kong rip about a botanical expedition in the Himalayas that turns into a Yeti hunt when the wife of the American's guide is whisked off by one of them. A Yeti is captured after a cave in that kills his mate and cub, and gets shipped back to the good 'ol USA for exhibition. Amusingly, things get held up at customs by immigration when it can't be determined wether Yeti is man or beast. The creature escapes to the sewers of Los Angeles, occasionally popping out of a manhole to kill or terrify someone. Wouldn't you be agitated if your family was murdered and you were kidnapped, held in a refrigerator, and dumped in a strange city? Pity the Yeti, children, pity the Yeti. Not much to waste your time on here.

1/5 The Dull Yeti...
  by Michael Bolts (Superior, WI)
Paul Langton stars as Frank Parrish, who with photo journalist Peter Wells played by Leslie Denison leads a expedition into the Himalayas to discover new plant life. Tera Shimada plays Subra the lead guide whose wife is kidnapped by a Yeti which takes the guys off their plans. Langton doesnt believe that there are Yeti's but eventually goes on a hunting party with his guide and the Sherpas. They find a cave with a bunch of Yeti's inside of it and kill most of them but bring one of them back with them to the USA for a little bit of research. It's like King Kong only with a Yeti. But King Kong was way better then this one. True it's a bad cheesy movie but I wasnt into it at all. The Yeti was laughable and it looked like it had fuzzy oven mitts for hands. Arggh.