Wonderful character development!

I gave it a 7.5 out of 10

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Inexpensive does not have to mean bad, but it does mean being resourceful and clever. You want those qualities? Look elsewhere. W Lee Wilder makes the first modern Yeti movie and, there are a few good scenes. One of the expedition hears a strange noise at night and goes outside to investigate with a flashlight, and just misses seeing the creature. Fear and intensity make an appearance, and are then squandered by endlessly dull stock type shots of the expedition trudging through the snow. The lead guides "woman" is captured and he hijacks the expedition to find her. They find the Yeti, he tries to kill them, instead he accidentally kills his own mate and child, knocking himself out in the process. Forgetting the woman they came to rescue, they ship the creature to America in a Frigidaire. A customs official holds them up to investigate, and the thing escapes. They should have waited 40 years and had him come across the border as an undocumented worker! Of course the Police have to track him down, as he is killing folks in LA. To me the creature looks like a man wearing clothes who stuck some substance resembling fur on them. He is the worst 'Monster' I can recall, resembling not so much a poodle, but a mangy dog wearing levi's. Of course they kill him. So much opportunity to make a good movie gone to waste. Music was good, dialog weak and script pretty cornball. Has its moments, but they are few.

A low budget creature feature directed by W. Lee Wilder has a California botanist Dr. Frank Parrish(Paul Langton) leading an expedition to the Himalayas. Parrish with his photographer Peter Wells(Leslie Denison)in tow hires an English-speaking mountain native Surba(Teru Shimada)to guide the search in study of plant life. Surba gathers several Sherpas from Shekar to carry supplies up the foothills to about 10,000 ft. While away Surba receives word that his wife has been abducted by a legendary man-like creature known as a "yeti". Now the expedition becomes a hunt for the abominable snowman. Surba wants the snow creature killed; but Dr. Parrish has every intent to capture it and bring it back to America alive. Other players: Robert King, Darlene Fields, Rudolph Anders and Robert Bice. The plot is too familiar and holds no surprises. Screenplay and story written by Myles Wilder.

I went on Wilder bender and watched three of his movies in a row, but the bender stopped here. The yeti suit is bad and to make matters worse most of the footage of the yeti is the same shot used over and over again and run backwards and forwards to make him step in and out of the light and then sometimes freeze frame him in place. The copy I saw was so poor it was at times hard to tell if it was the Yeti or just one of the other characters wearing a furry hat.In some wide shots, the Yeti at least looks really tall and they seem to have designed some kind of a monkey butt type butt. Then again most Yeti suits are bad, this one is of a kind.But wow this movie is certainly among the worst of the pre-Sci-Fi channel bigfoot movies, all of which are the worst of a lousy genre and unfairly treated monster. One of the riddles of film. Why is it there are virtually no good bigfoot movies? The movie turns into sort of The Third Man with the police chasing the Yeti around in the Sewers, here boring shots get repeated and some lighting gear gets into one shot.Acting from the leads is OK and the opening Tibet section is slow but kind of decent, when the Yeti gets to America it's all over though.Scene in the meat locker is one of the few effective scenes. Director of photography Crosby who shot Corman's good films can't do much with this one. It's not good, then gets bad when Yeti hits the streets. The suit does look like a poodle and it seems like they forgot to shoot any footage of it then had to reuse stuff to be able to edit the scenes together properly.Big Wilder mis-step this go round.

Expedition to the Himalayas finds the yeti and brings him back to Los Angeles where he runs amok. Really awful monster on the loose film suffers from a variety of sins, not the least of which is a monster that kind of looks like a man on ski pants with a woolly shirt and mask. Its a mess. In the right frame of mind and with some wise cracking friends this can be a really fun film, but the idea that anyone is going to sit and watch this is likely to curl your toes. Assuming you don't turn it off because its bad odds are you're going to fall asleep because its rather dull. This was the first discount video tape I ever bought and it was also the first film I ever fell asleep to while I was watching it. This is for bad movie or yeti movie fans only