A Colorado ski resort is besieged by a sub-human beast that commits brutal murders on the slopes.
Snowbeast 1977 HD | Horror movie directed by Herb Wallerstein | Yvette Mimieux, Bo Svenson & Robert Logan
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Snowbeast is a television horror film, first broadcast in 1977 in the United States. The film was shot at Crested Butte Mountain Resort, Colorado.
The movie details the attacks of a ravenous creature (a Yeti or Bigfoot/Sasquatch) on a Colorado ski resort. The teleplay was written by Joseph Stefano, who wrote the script for Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1960 thriller Psycho (1960 film). Stefano reportedly used a book by Roger Patterson (who claimed to have encountered a Sasquatch in 1967) as his primary inspiration, though no credit is given.
Snowbeast was directed by Herb Wallerstein, a veteran of many television shows such as I Dream of Jeannie, Star Trek: The Original Series, The Brady Bunch, and The Six Million Dollar Man.
Plot
Former 1968 Winter Olympics gold medal ski champion (Bo Svenson) Gar Seberg and his wife Ellen, a television presenter (Yvette Mimieux), return to his home, a ski resort in the Colorado Rocky Mountains where the faded star seeks a job using his skiing skills. As the Sebergs arrive, the town’s annual winter carnival is spoiled by the disappearances, later revealed to be brutal murders, of a series of vacationers by an unknown animal. There are eyewitness accounts that the culprit is a Yeti or Sasquatch, which are met with ridicule. The owner of the ski resort (Sylvia Sidney) declares that there is no such being, because she doesn’t want to lose her business, and she arranges for her grandson Tony (Robert Logan) to keep the disappearances a secret. The local sheriff (Clint Walker) spreads the story that there is a lone savage bear on the loose. Tony gives Gar a job with the ski resort and confides in Gar about the monster. Gar’s first job is to stalk and kill it. Gar keeps an open mind due to his wife’s former work on a documentary about Sasquatch sightings, but is reluctant to kill it, feeling that it would be murder. He changes his mind when the monster comes to town and not only panics the population but kills the mother of the Snow Carnival Queen.
In the film’s climax, Gar, Ellen, Tony and the sheriff go to the woods where the monster was last sighted. The monster attacks Gar, who shoots it with a revolver. However, the creature survives the gunshots, and Gar, out of ammunition, picks up a ski pole and impales the beast, causing it to fall off a mountain and die. The Sebergs embrace happily while the rest of the group looks on.
Cast
- Bo Svenson as Gar Seberg
- Yvette Mimieux as Ellen Seberg
- Robert Logan as Tony Rill
- Clint Walker as Sheriff Paraday
- Sylvia Sidney as Mrs. Carrie Rill
- Thomas Babson as Buster Smith
- Jacquie Botts as Betty Jo Blodgett
- Jamie Jamison as John Cochran
- Richard Jamison as Ben Cochran
- Liz Jury as Mrs. Blodgett
- Richard Jury as Charlie Braintree
- Michael J. London as The Snowbeast
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