Two
girls Jennifer (Kathy Christopher)
and Heidi (Annie McEnroe) go up to a ski
resort in Colorado during a winter
carnival.
They hear a growling sound and see
footsteps of an unusual animal. Jennifer
encounters the animal attacking her and
then she is missing.
The patrol team tries to search for
Jennifer as the head patrolman Tony
Rill (Robert Logan) insists that this is
no ordinary animal and asks his
Grandmother Mrs. Carrie Rill
(Sylvia Sidney) to close down the
carnival, but she doesn't listen to his
warning and keeps the festival running.
Even the town Sherriff Paraday (Clint
Walker) thinks it's just a grizzly bear.
But then this beast attacks the resort
and also finds Jennifer and certain
others dead with their faces torn off as
this creature keeps the bodies in a
shack.
Four people at the resort led by a man
Gar Seberg (Bo Svenson) along with
Tony, the Sheriff and Gar's wife Ellen
(Yvette Mimieux) tries to hunt the
creature down in the deep woods as they
claim that it is the legendary Bigfoot
and to kill it.
This movie seemed
exciting with what I heard about the
storyline but it is an average made for
tv monster flick and dated too. Not all
of it is terrible as it can be a fun one
to watch if you're in the mood for it but
it seems a but overly long and slow in
many spots of the story here.
The beginning look fairly impressive with
two skiiers skiing down a hill and a
monster watching with it's growling and
not revealing itself yet by attacking one
of them which makes this film quite
mysterious and then the survivor telling
the others what it was and not believing
her in which really draws attention too
with the story as well as the victim
ending up missing too.
A good conversation and camera shots
facing Tony Rill and then Mrs. Carrie Rill having a heated discussion of
what is out in the woods and Logan shows
some good energy by getting firm with her
about it all.
Many good distance shots on someone skiing down a hill as well as nice close
up shots on his feet skiing. There's a
good side shot on him tripping and
falling as well as a good camera shot
closing in on him with a great scared
expression on his face and a clawed hand
on his head.
There's some good class with a child
encountering the victim found dead in a
barn looking shocked in which seems
interesting too finding out where this
monster is hiding when not going out in
the woods for it's next killing.
However, there are too many takes on the
victims skiing before this monster goes
in for the kill which seems to be the
main focus as well as people finding foot
tracks too.
Some good discussions between Gar Seberg and Tony in a
hottub outdoors discussing about a
possible bigfoot monster with ther other
one disagreeing.
But yet this moment seems to pick up
again with one of the main character's
named Ellen Seberg waking up in the barn
after this monster placed her there and
then hearing a door opening with her
being cautious which is probably the only
scary moment in this story in which the
plotline here was in good taste.
Then of course there's a moment with a
highschol band gymnasium getting ready to
do a marching band performance and the
beast for the first time reveals itself
by crashing through a window with
everyone screaming and running away which
was one of my favourite scene's too. The
monster however looked slightly cheesy
nowadays but I can see how it would look
scary back then for a TV movie.
A good close up shot on Ellen slowly waking up in the barn area and
then hearing something with her slowly
walking towards the area she hears it
acting cautious which seemed very spooky.
There's great suspenseful shots on both Gar and Ellen trying to escape the
barn from the monster with suspenseful
takes on them smashing their way out of
the barn which looked highly energised.
Then the ski resort is deserted with
hunters looking for this beast and when
one of them comes back saying that they
killed it you definetely think to
yourself that they killed the wrong type
of animal which seems typical for a flick
with hunters announcing what they think
is good news.
There's good angle shot and other shots
slightly looking up on Gar and Ellen talking to
the local sheriff discussing about the
monster and what to do which looked quite
natural.
Then a great struggling moment with the
main characters trying to snuff out this
beast which looked exciting for a find
near the ending but it does show on how
intelligent this monster is by setting a
trap of logs so it can trap one of them
to kill. However just when it gets
exciting the film comes to an end. The
best is only seen briefly throughout the
whole film which I can understand as it
probably looked like a cheap looking
costume.
Bottom line is this film becomes terribly
trite but it can be entertaining for
anyone who enjoyed watching snowy
mountains and skiing along with unsolved
mysteries during the first half on this
movie with something attacking these
people which seems fun too but after that
you're not missing too much of this.
Alot of the acting was very
average but again most TV movies are I
find like that. Bo Svenson (Gar
Seberg) had the masculine looks for his
role and seemed to come across nicely
onto the camera but yet seemed a bit low
on energy when he tried to get into
character. He was never too believeable
in most of the work he's performed in
which he seemed to have basically the
looks more than his talent.
Robert Logan (Tony Rill) seemed to
bring a normal amount of energy with his
role by his aggressions and powerful
attitude on the snowmonster terrorising
the area in which he was the best male
actor I found in the film and doing the
best that he can with everything. He shows
some good energy by getting firm on what's out in the woods.
Clint Walker (Sheriff Paraday)
showed a great serious in his role as the
lawman in the film along with speaking
his lines quite well. He wasn't overly
great but seemed to try his best by
portraying this kind of role and passing
the test.
Sylvia Sidney (Mrs. Carrie Rill)
showed a great elderly warm laifd back
and caring attitude in which I found her
to be the best cast out of them all. She
knows how to portray a role like the one
that she did and not wanting anything to
happen to her at all.
There's low quick
violin chord structures during moments
when the main characters try to snuff out
this snowbeast along with some good drum
booming sounds too. There's some good
adventureous flute and trombone playing
too that was used in the film. This
sounded very 70's TV adventureous like
done by Robert Prince.
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