Rating: 3/20 (Fred: 7/20; Libby: fell asleep; Ozzy: no rating; Josh: no rating; Alesha: did not watch the movie at all)
Plot: A college professor takes four students on a field trip to investigate and hopefully study a Yeti.
This is one of those special bad movies where you question the sanity of the people involved. It's got a creepy vibe but not the intended creepy vibe since this doesn't work as a horror movie. It's not a scary movie at all. It's like when you watch Manos: The Hands of Fate for the first time and assume that all kinds of horrible things went wrong during the filming and that it all ends in violence somehow. It's a very entertaining bad movie, saved from being one of the worst movies of all time because it's got an intriguing twisty plot. Not to give anything away, but it's almost like they decided midway through the filming that the guy in a Yeti suit looked a little too much like a guy in a Yeti suit and decided to work it into the story somehow. There are long stretches of movie where nothing seems to be going on, but just when you're on the verge of losing interest, they throw something so strange or so completely inept and completely impossible to ignore at you, usually with an ill-fitting classical music score or terrible heartbeat sound effects. Like the guy who calls somebody "Sonny Boy" at a gas station. Or Laughing Crow, the mute Indian who makes the best faces ever. Or a conversation about knocking on the wall. Or the big mute Indian. Or a scene with a double murder that doesn't really fit into the movie at all. Or a really awkward party sequence. Or the mute Indian. Ivan Agar plays Laughing Crow, and I could not stop laughing every time he was on the screen. And that Yeti! The first time you see the beast in action, it's shown through blizzard cam and impossible to see. I felt cheated. However, there were plenty of chances to see the really tiny Yeti running around wreaking havoc, and it's as hilarious as you'd expect from a movie with a poster like the one above. Really quite the special movie, one where they don't get much of anything right.
One question never answered: Why does this movie start with a scene of somebody being decapitated? It didn't fit in with anything at all. Why am I asking questions like this about this movie?
My co-worker Alesha tried to crash our party but was chased away when one of us used the word uvula.
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