Alternate versions This was released in the United States in an edited version as "The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas" with a running time of 85 minutes. User reviews 86 Review. Top review. Inventive Hammer monster movie. It's rather strange seeing Hammer horror in black and white after all the vibrant colours that their later offerings show off so boldly; but the black and white gives it that old monster movie feel which is what the movie is anyway It's true that this isn't Hammer's finest work, but it's a very nice early offering; and shows some early ingeniousness of the studio.
That's what I like best about Hammer Horror; when you see one of their movies, you know that you're going to be in for a fun and imaginative ride and this film certainly delivers on that front.
The plot follows botanist Peter Cushing as he joins a group of arctic explorers that go off into the Himalayas in search of the mythical beast - the Yeti.
The film then follows, in adventure style, their misadventure as they come face to face with the beast itself and get more than they bargained for The snow setting gives the film a feeling of isolation that invokes a constant feeling of dread and we get the impression that if something bad does happen - there wont be anyone there to save our hero's.
This mind game has been carried off in many films since this one Alien, most notably , but here is a good early example of that. The film is also different from most other horror films as it handles a subject and a monster that hasn't often been covered.
This sets it apart in a good way as it's something different from the viewer and also goes some way to showing Hammer's inventiveness as most studios are happy to continue taking the safe option and making horror films that have been tried and tested. The fact that the Yeti doesn't appear for much of the film will no doubt annoy some viewers, and it did me somewhat, but it helps the film as it ensures that the audience will be intrigued to finally see the monster.
The film is very well paced and doesn't get boring either, which is a plus. As I said, this isn't Hammer's best film. However; it's definitely well worth tracking down for the Hammer fan, and people in general that want to see a good monster movie. Details Edit. Release date October United States. United Kingdom. Hammer Films. Yeti, der Schneemensch. Clarion Films Hammer Films.
Technical specs Edit. Despite dozens of expeditions into the remote mountain regions of Russia, China and Nepal, the existence of the Yeti remains unproven. The Yeti is said to be muscular, covered with dark grayish or reddish-brown hair, and weigh between and lbs. Though this is the most common form, reported Yetis have come in a variety of shapes.
The Yeti is a character in ancient legends and folklore of the Himalaya people. The moral of the stories is often a warning to avoid dangerous wild animals and to stay close and safe within the community.
But, according to National Geographic, local people told him they were unable to present one because the creatures could not survive at that low an altitude. In modern times, when Westerners started traveling to the Himalayas, the myth became more sensational, according to the BBC.
In , a journalist named Henry Newman interviewed a group of British explorers who had just returned from a Mount Everest expedition.
The explorers told the journalist they had discovered some very large footprints on the mountain to which their guides had attributed to "metoh-kangmi," essentially meaning "man-bear snow-man. Thus a legend was born. In her book " Still Living? Yeti, Sasquatch, and the Neanderthal Enigma " , Thames and Hudson , researcher Myra Shackley offers the following description, reported by two hikers in who saw "two black specks moving across the snow about a quarter mile below them.
The shoulders sloped sharply down to a powerful chest Reddish-brown in color and bipedal, it was busy grubbing up roots and occasionally emitted a loud high-pitched cry. It's not clear if these sightings were real, hoaxes or misidentifications, though legendary mountaineer Reinhold Messner, who spent months in Nepal and Tibet, concluded that large bears and their tracks had often been mistaken for Yeti.
He describes his own encounter with a large, unidentifiable creature in his book " My Quest for the Yeti: Confronting the Himalayas' Deepest Mystery " St. Martin's, In March , Anthony Wooldridge , a hiker in the Himalayas, saw what he thought was a Yeti standing in the snow near a ridge about feet meters away.
It didn't move or make noise, but Wooldridge saw odd tracks in the snow that seemed to lead toward the figure. He took two photographs of the creature, which were later analyzed and proven genuine. Many in the Bigfoot community seized upon the photos as clear evidence of a Yeti, including John Napier , an anatomist and anthropologist who had served as the Smithsonian Institution's director of primate biology.
Many considered it unlikely Wooldridge could have made a mistake because of his extensive hiking experience in the region. Though these circular tracks did not show any detail it is important that they were in a straight line. Something large either needs legs like a camel to produce such a track or else it has to be bipedal. One particular Sherpa who accompanied Shipton repeatedly has to be mentioned now: Sen Tenzing, an elder member of the tribe of 1 enzing Norkey, co-conqueror of Everest.
Sen Tenzing not only saw yeti prints on quite a number of occasions, he also. In November a large group of Sherpas gathered in front of the Thyangboche monastery for a religious festival. This monastery is the same one at which Sir John Hunt interviewed the abbot about Snowmen. The monastery is not too distant from Mount Everest, in fact the mountain can be seen from the monastery.
The place where the Sherpas assembled is a meadow bordered on one side by a forest. It was out of those trees, according to Sen Tenzing, that a yeti suddenly appeared. The nearest of the Sherpas were about eighty feet away; they said that it was of the same size as they are themselves—averaging five and a half feet— and that its whole body was covered with reddish-brown hair, except the face. Because Sen Tenzing was known personally to Shipton, W.
Murray and other explorers, they saw to it that he was thoroughly questioned later in the same month. The occasion was a cocktail party at the British Embassy at Katmandu. The Sherpa was brought in, still wearing climbing boots and. They later not only said that Tenzing stuck to his story all the way through but also that he could not have done so if he had not spoken the truth. Then came the expedition of , and, as Murray put it, more news of the yeti. Writing in the Scots Magazine he told the following story:.
Our party split up. Shipton and Ward penetrated into the heart of the Gaurisankar range—a wild tangle of high and icy peaks—by crossing a pass of twenty thousand feet, now called the Menlung La. Bourdillon and I followed them a few days later after explorations of our own farther north. From the Menlung La we dropped two thousand feet onto a long westward-flowing glacier.
At eighteen thousand feet, on its snow-covered surface, we came upon the tracks of two bipeds, which were quite distinct from the tracks of Shipton and Ward. Like the latter before us, we followed the strange tracks for two miles down the glacier, because they had chosen the best route through the crevasse system.
Where broad crevasses barred the way, the tracks struck sharp left or right to avoid them or dodged around little ice cliffs and pinnacles. They were the tracks of an animal using its intelligence to choose a good, safe, and therefore in its detail complex route.
We, too, had to take to the moraine. We followed it one mile to rough grazing grounds which support small herds of wild goats and sheep and presumably yetis too.
On meeting Shipton and Ward we found them still in a state of subdued excitement over the tracks for they had come on them several days earlier than we, when the prints had been no more than a few hours old. Where the snow lay soft and heavy the yetis had left only the deep outline of the foot, but where it lay thin and frozen the pad marks and the five toe marks had been distinct within the print.
Where the yetis had jumped the smaller crevasses the scrabble marks of their toes could be clearly seen on the far side. The prints were six inches wide by twelve and a half inches long, the gap between the prints was nine or ten inches. The Sherpa, Sen Tenzing, who accompanied Shipton was able to identify the prints as those of two yetis. He knew well the spoor of bear and could say at once that these were not bear tracks There is no mammal known to science that leaves such tracks.
Of course both Hindu ascetics going naked in the snow or very nearly so and outlaws do exist but if they leave footprints they are still human footprints, about ten inches long and at most four inches wide. The conclusion appears inevitable that the prints were made by something else than outlaws, bears or snow leopards. In my own judgment it is no other than the metchkangmi, mirka, yeti or sogpa.
And that, probably, is as close as we will come to getting an answer to that intriguing question—until some fortunate scientist comes into possession of an Abominable Snowman, dead or alive.
The Snowman that died and was abandoned by its Nepalese captors before Col. An account of Mr.
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