This is in the Drive-In 50-pack Collection. I remember seeing this one on TV a long time ago. I watched recently and the film is adequately good. One of the better films in the Drive-in pack to me.

The film is not your top-notch Hollywood Horror film but it is worth watching if you are a fan of horror and Bigfoot / Yeti (Abominable Snowman). Just keep in mind when watching the movie is was made for TV in the 1970s.

The story is mediocre, nothing extraordinary, but the film does have a story. It's not overrun by a Yeti just out killing people which is good to me. I like a good horror story not a monster on film just mindlessly killing throughout the film.

I would say worth watching if you ever catch it on TV or acquire it in a film pack.

6.5/10

If Snowbeast were made today it would be made for the Science Fiction Channel, it's so very typical of the product they put on their network.

The plot is a total ripoff from Jaws taken from the Atlantic Coast and transferred to the Rocky Mountain ski country. Sylvia Sidney and her grandson Robert Logan own a ski resort and the first dismembering of one of their guests apparently is not reason enough to cancel their annual winter carnival celebration. Even the sighting of a really big, white man beast like the legendary Bigfoot isn't reason enough.

Those who think it is are sheriff Clint Walker, gold medal skier Bo Svensson and his wife television reporter Yvette Mimieux. If you've seen Jaws you know what the general outlines of the story are.

Not even fans of the principal players should have to endure Snowbeast. You might go snow blind just watching it.

After the attack of the giant great white, there were bound to be rip- offs. Octopuses, whales, ants, and even tomatoes got in on the killer klutch, leaving nothing but bones behind in their wake. For this suspenseful T.V. movie, a great cast not only dealt with snowy, cold conditions, but the mystery of whom this abominable snow monster would get next 1930's movie star Sylvia Sidney is preparing for her winter inn's annual carnival, of which she was the queen of at the first one 50 years before. Now the grand dame of the winter carnival, she isn't pleased to learn that it is being haunted by some creature from who knows what lagoon.

Sidney's grandson, Robert Logan, teams up with Olympic hero Bo Swenson whose wife, reporter Yvette Mimieaux once loved him. Putting aside old feelings, they work alongside sheriff Clint Walker to get rid of this thing who violently (and intelligently) gets his victims no matter what it takes. A scene with the creature pushing a collection of cut giant logs is pretty crafty, but deadly for one of the people on the hunt.

Ordinary but fun, this never explains anything about the snow beast other than the fact that it us viciously dangerous. Pretty snow covered mountain scenes make this a feast for the eyes as well as the heart because it does keep you hooked. Not bad for standard 1970's T.V. movie fare when they were for the most part pretty mediocre.