SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

The search for the mysterious Yeti takes a group of scientists into an expedition they fear that they might not survive and an adventure that if they do, they'll never forget. Stranded in the middle of a freezing wilderness, a group of explorers are rescued by scientists searching for a link between pre-historic and modern man. Frozen in time, the Yeti suddenly appear out of nowhere. Are they friendly links to a long ago past or monsters? This gives the audience the chance to figure this out for themselves and see the humans both as monster and civilized man, while surprising revelations come out that among the science fiction nonsense might get the audience thinking. This is probably the best of the Jerry Warren no budget thrillers, certainly as far from a masterpiece as one can be, but at least with a minimum of imagination put into it. There's really hardly any acting involved; In fact, the cast are among the lousiest non reactors that I have ever seen. What makes this even more curious is the fact that even in the midst of this frigid cold, the men all wear hats with feathers in them as if they were climbing the Alps to yodel. When the Yeti does appear, you never really get to feel anything but sorry for them, because it is their space which is (once again) being invaded by "civilized" man. There are some truly horrific sequences where a few members of the traveling party fall what seems indefinitely off of the jagged, rocky cliffs. I guess since the other two on the DVD collection are either just pathetically bad or sleep-inducing boring that this one gets marks for simply becoming tolerable.

Jerry Warren's take on the abominable snowman is most likely his finest work as well as an exciting adventure starring George Skaff and cute Virginia 'Asa' Maynor.Virginia travels up to the Himalayas to search for her missing brother. Along the way, she and her party encounter the big yeti and get an unexpected surprise. Jerry Warren did a good job of directing; this film was probably the second yeti movie ever made after W. Lee Wilder's 'The Snow Creature' (1954).Recommended as a companion piece to Wilder's film or next to one of Warren's other movies, such as 'The Incredible Petrified World' (1958).

It is almost impossible to discuss the 1956 yeti movie "Man Beast" without making comparisons to the British film "The Abominable Snowman," which came out the following year. While the latter film features the stars Peter Cushing and Forrest Tucker, "Man Beast" boasts the "talents" of Virginia Maynor (who acts atrociously and doesn't even provide the requisite eye candy) and action lead Tom Maruzzi. And while the Brit film boasts a literate script and interesting characters...well, let's just say that the American film again comes off second best. But perhaps the most telling difference of all is that whereas "Snowman" only teases us with occasional glimpses of the yetis, seemingly adhering to Val Lewton's unspoken credo that the viewer's imagination can supply far more terror than anything shown on a screen, "Man Beast" shoves the yetis in our faces again and again. Fortunately, for red-blooded monster fans, this is not altogether a bad thing. The snowmen do look pretty scary here, especially in the film's finest scene, in which the yetis attack our heroes for the first time, in a dark cave. This scene is filmed largely in silence, and in somewhat slow motion, and is pretty darn nightmarish. As reported in the fine book "Sleaze Creatures," stock footage and filming in the hills of Bishop, CA do a decent job of simulating the Himalayan locale. Still, at least half of the film's compact 63-minute running time consists of scenic shots of our band plodding through the snow. Bottom line: This is a fun hour at the movies, inferior to the Brit version as it may be. Oh--the DVD here is nice and clean looking, but scratchy in spots, and with no extras to speak of.

This wasn't that bad, you only have to sit through this film for only 67 minutes, its sort of a quick story about the growing popularity of Yetis, Abdominale Snowmen, the Sasquatch, etc... in the 1950s, which grew its highest in the 70s. "Man Beast" is a fun movie too watch if you're not feeling critical about movies at the time. ... Plus, there's not as much talk in this as there is in other bad 50s b-sci fi films.