Monday 6 February 2012

The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas - 1957

Originally billed simply as 'The Abominable Snowman', this movie was produced by Hammer Films and was released on 26th August 1957 in the UK, starring Forest Tucker and Peter Cushing.








One of the earliest movies on the subject, the movie coincided with the Daily Mail / Tom Slick funded expedition to find the Yeti, thus ensuring an eager audience when it arrived in British theatres.





Plot:

Botanist John Rollason studies rare mountain herbs at a remote lhamasery in the Himalays with his wife Helen and associate Peter.  When an American called Tom Friend arrives, Rollason and Friend set out to find the Yeti despite Helen's objections.

The pair are accompanied by another American, Shelley and a Scot, McNee who claims to have had a Yeti sighting.  When the group find footprints in the snow, McNee seems strangely affected and Friend turns out to want to exploit the creature along with Shelley.

The movie then centres around the conflict between scientific discovery and commercialisation.  When the Yeti is eventually shot, the party is horrified to find that other Yeti intend to retreive the fallen creature and appear to posses supernatural powers to do so.


Trailer:







Production:

The movie was shot at the famous Pinewood Studios just outside London and the lesser-known Bray studios (Alien, Rocky Horror and almost every Hammer movie you can imagine).   Outdoor filming took place in the Pyrénées in France.


Stills:










Thursday 24 November 2011

List of Bigfoot Movies

Below is a comprehensive list of Bigfoot and Yeti movies.

If you are aware of any other movies, please email me.


1954 - The Snow Creature - IMDB
1955 - The Creature (BBC Play)  - IMDB
1955 - Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
1955 - Ju jin yuki otoko (Japan)   aka 'Beast Man Snow Man' (USA) - IMDB
1956 - Man Beast - IMDB
1957 - The Abominable Snowman - IMDB
1961 - Ostroznie, Yeti! (Poland)  - IMDB
1970 - Bigfoot - IMDB
1972 - The Legend of Boggy Creek - IMDB
1972 - Horror Express  - IMDB
1974 - Beauties and the Beast aka 'The Beast and the Vixens' / 'Desperately Seeking Yeti'
1974 - Shriek of the Mutilated   aka 'Scream of the Snowbeast' (TV title) - IMDB
1975 - La Maldición de la Bestia – Spain  aka 'The Werewolf and the Yeti' / 'Curse of the Howling Beast' - IMDB
1976 - Blood Beast of Monster Mountain aka 'The Legend of McCullough’s Mountain' (re-edit of Demon Hunter with bigfoot suit) - IMDB
1976 - Creature from Black Lake  - IMDB
1976 - The Legend of Bigfoot  - IMDB
1976 - The Six Million Dollar Man - The Secret of Bigfoot Part 1 (s03e17)  - IMDB
1976 - The Six Million Dollar Man - The Secret of Bigfoot Part 2 (s03e18)  - IMDB
1976 - The Six Million Dollar Man - The Return of Bigfoot Part 1 (s04e01)  - IMDB
1976 - The Bionic Woman - The Return of Bigfoot Part 2    (s02e01)  - IMDB
1977 - The Six Million Dollar Man - Bigfoot V  (s05e05)  - IMDB
1977 - Bigfoot and Wildboy (TV Series)  - IMDB
1977 - Return to Boggy Creek  - IMDB
1977 - Sasquatch, the Legend of Bigfoot  - IMDB
1977 - Snowbeast (TV)  - IMDB
1977 - Yeti: The Giant of the 20th Century – Italy  - IMDB
1978 - Curse of Bigfoot (re-edited/extended version of Teenagers Battle the Thing)  - IMDB
1979 - Revenge of Bigfoot  aka 'Rufus J. Pickle & the Indian'  - IMDB
1979 - Screams of a Winter Night  aka 'Howlings of a Winter Night'  - IMDB
1979 - The Capture of Bigfoot  aka 'The Legend of Bigfoot'  - IMDB
1980 - Night of the Demon  - IMDB
1985 - Bigfoot  - IMDB
1985 - The Barbaric Beast of Boggy Creek, Part II   aka 'Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues'  - IMDB
1987 - Harry and the Hendersons  aka Bigfoot and the Hendersons (UK)  - IMDB
1987 - Cry Wilderness  - IMDB
1987 - Bigfoot  (TV Disney)  - IMDB
1988 - Demonwarp  - IMDB
1990 - Petrified Beast from the Frozen Zone (re-edit of 'Man Beast')  - IMDB
1991- Harry and the Hendersons (TV series)  - IMDB
1991 - Ajooba Kudrat Kaa  (Hindi movie)  
1992 - Winterbeast  - IMDB
1995 - The Last Chance Detectives: Legend of the Desert Bigfoot   - IMDB
1995 - Bigfoot: The Unforgettable Encounter  - IMDB
1995 - To Catch a Yeti  - IMDB
1996 - Drawing Flies  -  IMDB
1996 - The Abominable Snowman - IMDB
1997 - Search for the Beast - IMDB
1997 - The Sasquatch Hunters - IMDB
1997 - Little Bigfoot  - IMDB
1997 - Little Bigfoot 2  - IMDB
1998 - Big and Hairy  - IMDB
2000 - Yeti: Le Cri de l’Homme des Neiges (French TV movie)  - IMDB
2001 - Ein Yeti zum Verlieben/My Friend the Yeti (German TV movie)  - IMDB
2002 - Ape Canyon - IMDB
2002 - Sasquatch  aka “The Untold” - IMDB
2003 - They Call Him Sasquatch - IMDB
2004 - Yeti Vengeance  - IMDB
2004 - Suburban Sasquatch - IMDB
2004 - Among Us  - IMDB
2005 - Stomp! Shout! Scream!   - IMDB
2005 - Yeti! A Tale of the Brothers Krong
2005 - Clawed: The Legend of Sasquatch  aka 'The Unknown' - IMDB
2005 - Sasquatch Hunters aka 'Primeval' - IMDB
2006 - Abominable  - IMDB
2006 - Bigfoot  -  IMDB
2006 - Bigfoot at Holler Creek Canyon (2006)  - IMDB
2006 - The Sasquatch Gang  - IMDB
2006 - Sasquatch Mountain  aka 'Devil on the Mountain'  - IMDB
2006 - The Lumberjack of All Trades  aka 'Bigfoot Massacre'  - IMDB
2006 - Scream of the Sasquatch  - IMDB
2007 - The Abominable  - IMDB
2007 - Bigfoot (short)  -  IMDB
2007 - Paper Dolls  - IMDB
2007 - Primal  - IMDB
2007 - The Long Way Home - A Bigfoot Story  - IMDB
2008 - Strange Wilderness  - IMDB
2008 - The Shrieking  - IMDB
2008 - Yeti: Curse of the Snow Demon (TV)  - IMDB
2008 - The Edge of Reality  - IMDB
2008 - Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie  - IMDB
2009 - Bigfoot   aka ' The Kids that Saved Bigfoot'  - IMDB
2009 - Savage  - IMDB
2009 - Sawtooth  - IMDB
2009 - The Wildman of the Navidad  - IMDB
2009 - Blood Forest  - IMDB
2010 - Assault of the Sasquatch  - IMDB
2010 - Fear the Forest  - IMDB
2010 - Legend of the Sandsquatch  - IMDB
2010 - Lost Woods  - IMDB
2010 - The Bloody Rage of Bigfoot  - IMDB
2010 - The Devil at Lost Creek - online short:  http://www.stateofhorror.com/lostcreek  - IMDB
2010 - Nightbeasts  -  IMDB
2011 - Boggy Creek  -  IMDB
2011 - Letters from the Big Man  - IMDB
2011 - Dear God No!  - IMDB
2011 - Rage of the Yeti  -  IMDB
2011 - Savage
2011 - Snow Beast - IMDB


In Production

The Legend of Grassman  - IMDB
Sasquatch vs. Chupacabra
Exists  - IMDB
Skookum
Lost Coast Tapes  - IMDB



Animated Movies & Honorable Mentions

1995 - A Goofy Movie  - IMDB
1971 - The Geek (First known bigfoot porn movie)  - IMDB
2001 - Monsters Inc  (for the scene where Mikey and Sulley meet their friend the Yeti)  - IMDB
2004 - Harry Knuckles and the Pearl Necklace (short scene with a bionic bigfoot)  - IMDB
2006 - The Legend of Sasquatch (kids animated movie)  - IMDB
2007 - Chill Out Scooby-Doo!  - IMDB
2008 - The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor  - IMDB

Tuesday 15 November 2011

Introduction

As an enthusiast of all things bigfoot, I must confess that I love bigfoot movies.  I don't care how cheesy they are, and some of them really are very cheesy, I thought it was time for a little corner of the internet that could celebrate this tiny movie genre.  

There aren't that many bigfoot movies so it shouldn't take long to work my way through them, but I'd appreciate some help in identifying movies I have missed.

Join me on this indulgent romp through the land of bad fur suits and wooden acting, and remember my one rule for encountering a bigfoot - make sure you are with someone who runs slower than you do!