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Paul Haight	THE SNOW CREATURE (1954)	Lead	[-]
May 29 10 2:06 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	No wonder W. Lee Wilder never gave us a clear look at it...
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Koukol 5		#1	[-]
May 29 10 2:10 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	They could have done something to his face!
Rakshasa		#2	[-]
May 29 10 3:28 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Boring, awful movie. Unwatchable in fact. Links To All The Classic Monster Stills I've Posted: http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/topic/30758
TomWeaver999		#3	[-]
May 29 10 3:42 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	It starts out okay, if you go into it with low-low-low expectations, but once they bring the Yeti back to civilization and we get a lot of scenes of civil servants arguing, there's just NOTHIN' to be derived from watching it.
Charles Thaxton		#4	[-]
May 29 10 3:48 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Ethel Merman sings..."there's NO creature like SNOW creature there's NO creature I know....."
Bill Warren		#5	[-]
May 29 10 3:50 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Reviewer Jack Moffitt said of CURSE OF THE FACELESS MAN that a great deal of thought went into the movie, very little of it any good. The same is true here. Once they reach the US, the movie stops dead while officials argue pointlessly over whether the Yeti is cargo or a passenger.
DocZilla		#6	[-]
May 29 10 5:56 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	This is one of those movies that, as an impetuous 11-year-old, I set the alarm to awaken me at 4:30 am to watch it back in 1974 (20th anniversary, maybe?). Gee, KTTV-11 in L.A. was great for these type of things. The velveteen SNOW CREATURE, not so great. Even then I realized I missed some precious sleep and haven't wanted to see hide nor hair of it since.
Monsterpal		#7	[-]
May 29 10 6:20 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I get a kick out of his mitten hands.
Uchujin65		#8	[-]
May 29 10 6:50 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Killers From Space is way funnier and more entertaining in that Ed Woodsian way. It's the best of Billy Wilder's untalented estranged brother's "sci-fi trilogy now in public domain". Phantom From Space and Snow Creature are pretty boring from my memory. Goodtimes (God that company was my childhood) put out that double feature of Godzilla vs. Megalon and The Snow Creature so that's how I saw that film and I remember it being very dull indeed. Here!
Bill Warren		#9	[-]
May 29 10 7:03 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I thought the best-as-a-movie movie of Wilder's was PHANTOM FROM SPACE, but KILLERS FROM SPACE is more entertaining. I haven't seen any of his movies other than those that are SF, but I am curious about BLUEBEARD'S TEN HONEYMOONS. Also, one of his earlier movies features Douglas Fowley in the leading role, so that might be interesting.
Red Gargon		#10	[-]
May 29 10 7:09 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I'm sometimes in a masochistic mood for the intense boredom of a W. Lee Wilder flick - besides, there is one great line, "Instead of flowers, I brought you a yeti!". Works wonders when walking into a dinner party or for any forgotten domestic occasion.
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TomWeaver999		#11	[-]
May 29 10 7:11 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	His crime movie THE GLASS ALIBI is good, I've always had a soft spot for MANFISH because of Lon Jr. as Lennie (kinda) yet again (and the fact that it cleverly updates THE GOLD BUG and THE TELL-TALE HEART to the 1950s Caribbean, in gorgeous color), and I like both of the movies he produced and Anthony Mann directed, THE GREAT FLAMARION with Erich von Stroheim and STRANGE IMPERSONATION. I think I've liked more of his movies than I've disliked; the only one that I really can't take is FRIGHT.
Dr Stinson		#12	[-]
May 29 10 7:15 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Well say what you will but this is not Lee Wilder's worst film. That distinction belongs to FRIGHT(1956) which is his extremely crummy attempt to cash in on the Bridey Murphy craze that was occurring at the time.
horrorfilmx		#13	[-]
May 29 10 7:45 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Bill Warren wrote: I thought the best-as-a-movie movie of Wilder's was PHANTOM FROM SPACE, but KILLERS FROM SPACE is more entertaining. I haven't seen any of his movies other than those that are SF, but I am curious about BLUEBEARD'S TEN HONEYMOONS. Also, one of his earlier movies features Douglas Fowley in the leading role, so that might be interesting. As a George Sanders fan I sat through Bluebeard. I was no more impressed with it than Sanders was. He has a funny chapter in his autobiography about being roped into the project by being told that "Wilder" would direct. Nobody mentioned which one.
Tom Powers		#14	[-]
May 29 10 9:02 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I find SNOW CREATURE hypnotically fascinating. I think I'm mentally remaking it as I watch it, in a state between waking and dreaming.
TomWeaver999		#15	[-]
May 29 10 9:15 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	A CHFB lurker asks if the Snow Creature is wearing a leftover iNVADERS FROM MARS Martian suit. I have no idea; to me, one pile of old cloth looks just like another.
CreepingBride		#16	[-]
May 29 10 9:27 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Three, maybe four, years ago, I was challenged to program a horror movie double-feature that could lull a room full of rowdy wiseacres into stupefied silence. My prescription: THE SNOW CREATURE followed by 1967's NIGHT FRIGHT. Too many libations, a darkened room with comfortable chairs, muddy P.D. recordings--it worked like a charm. It was like opening up a tank of ether in the middle of the room.
amarok		#17	[-]
May 29 10 9:40 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I believe F. J. Ackerman remarked that the yeti in this film bore a passing resemblance to Abraham Lincoln. Somehow I sat through this movie several times in the early '70s. We were that starved for SF/fantasy/horror!
Rick		#18	[-]
May 29 10 11:57 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I thought the best-as-a-movie movie of Wilder's was PHANTOM FROM SPACE, but KILLERS FROM SPACE is more entertaining. I think I would agree with this, but ask me tomorrow and I might flip-flop. I'm inordinately, unreasonably fond of both PHANTOM and KILLERS. SNOW CREATURE, though, is truly a chore and a bore. Always thought BLUEBEARD'S TEN HONEYMOONS was an intriguing title, and I almost always like George Sanders. But the movie turned out to be profoundly disappointing. It's probably better, in most ways, than any of his s-f three, but it's not much fun. I think there's something about furniture buying and selling in the plot. Maybe it's part of his scam? I don't know, I don't remember. Pay me no mind.
Reegs		#19	[-]
May 30 10 7:02 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Bill Warren wrote: I thought the best-as-a-movie movie of Wilder's was PHANTOM FROM SPACE, but KILLERS FROM SPACE is more entertaining. I haven't seen any of his movies other than those that are SF, but I am curious about BLUEBEARD'S TEN HONEYMOONS. Also, one of his earlier movies features Douglas Fowley in the leading role, so that might be interesting. With or without his teeth? Yeah, I know, please go away. Tom - I was thinking the same thing ...
Jacque Lecotier		#20	[-]
May 30 10 8:22 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	TomWeaver999 wrote: A CHFB lurker asks if the Snow Creature is wearing a leftover iNVADERS FROM MARS Martian suit. I have no idea; to me, one pile of old cloth looks just like another. I believe so. Can't prove it definitively, but look at the hands and "feet" of the two suits, as well as the similar overall design. Also, consider that the actor playing the Snow Man is obviously a giant, as were the principal Martians in INVADERS. And Planet Filmplays' budget on SNOW CREATURE is clearly low enough that renting a creature costume, if one were available, would be far preferable to making one from scratch. It makes sense to me, then, that Planet employed one of the INVADERS giant actors and rented the/a suit he wore (or could be easily tailored to fit) from whoever (probably Republic Pictures) made and held onto the INVADERS mew-tant outfits. Planet added some furry patches to the underlying costume, and, voila, one Martian Mew-tant becomes one Yeti. Adding further credence to this is the likelihood that the SNOW CREATURE was enacted by Lock Martin, one of INVADERS' principal Martians, so there would already be a "monster costume" tailored to fit from INVADERS. Who knows, Martin may have even been given his costume to keep as a souvenir. The likelihood that Martin is the Yeti comes from a long-ago encounter with his granddaughter, who confirmed that Martin had been in "an abominable snowman" movie, but believed it was Hammer's ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN. On further discussion, she also noted that he had shot his part "somewhere" in Northern California. None of that would make sense with the Hammer Film, so I proposed SNOW CREATURE as an alternaative possibility, and she was comfortable with that. And I believe she was being straight, not a celebrity-relative poseur, but lacking studio records I can't definitely "assert" it's Martin. But the actor + ready-made rental costume scenario, and vice-versa, makes it credible to me, as does the general appearance (tall but slender; Max Palmer, also prominent in INVADERS, was pretty heavyset) of the Man in the Suit. And I'll certainly go on believing it was Lock Martin 'til someone comes up with a convincing alternative.
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