Monster of the Day #3061

Updated on July 6, 2020 By Ken Begg 8 Comments

Ugh, sure didn’t feel like a long weekend (I appreciated the day off, nonetheless). Back to work now, and yes, I do realize that given current day events that is NOT something to complain about.

The Cult Movies Channel on YouTube feels to be adding more TV movies now, which I am in favor of. Snowbeast is no world beater, and as you can imagine from the still above the monster is used elliptically at best. Still, like most network TV films of the time it was solidly put together at least. And let’s be frank, there were worse Bigfoot movies playing in theaters and drive-ins at the time.

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  • Ericb

    RIP Ennio Morricone

  • Gamera977

    Well, having the camera in focus most of the time would make it better than fifty percent of the ‘Bigfoot’ movies from the ’70s.

    Okay, okay, maybe I’m overstating things but I feel kinda snarky this morning….

  • Musing a bit on their careers and looking over Morricone’s body of work, I get the feeling that decades from now, John Williams will be played by “pops” orchestras, while Morricone will be played by “serious” orchestras….

  • Beckoning Chasm

    The Happy Wanderers did a great tribute to John Williams.

  • It’s hard to imagine any Bigfoot/Yeti movie being good without Peter Cushing’s name being attached to it, but as I recall it this comes the closer. Probably because it’s more a Jaws rip-off than a King Kong rip-off.

  • Eric Hinkle

    I actually think this was a fairly decent made-for-TV horror film, but then I’m a Bigfoot fan. It’s amazing to look back and realize how many of those tv horror movies were, if not great, then certainly good enough for a rewatch.

  • Ken_Begg

    I think I discussed in my review of that Our Man Flint TV movie that the network “Movie of the Week” productions were basically to the ’70s what the studio B-Movies were to the ’40s. They were cheap and quickly produced but solidly made and generally entertaining. The TV movies also had the advantage of drawing from the giant pool of TV character actors available at that time.

  • Eric Hinkle

    Very likely you did, and I forgot it.

    It helped too that they had writers like Richard Matheson and Robert Bloch to call on for some of these films.