Yeti - O Monstro do Século 20

I'd read somewhere that seventies was the lost decade to film industry, who wrote it wasn't necessarily wrong, making a simple research we can see it, nevertheless for a die hard cinephiles, it doesn't matter at all, including myself, those trash pictures from this period of time fits perfect with ours tastes, meanwhile a weak Italian production a kind King King's cute, where a giant frozen Yeti is found on a melting glacier, comes to life by electric discharge (my God!!), a true friendly monster is taking to serve as freak spectacle on a stadium to promote sales to a powerful enterprise, the results all us already known by previous picture, not quite.... this one has a slight variance, beware for a unexpected surprise !!!

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First watch: 2014 / How many: 2 / Source: DVD-R / Rating: 5

YETI deserves the 8 star rating because it is the one of the greatest bad movies ever made. I saw it at a midnight screening in L.A. and people were roaring and cheering at the insanity - this movie is one of those cinematic trainwrecks where you think it cant get any stranger and THEN IT DOES! The millionaire who funds the project to thaw the Yeti looks like Chris Penn and John Goodman both poured into an ill-fitting suit - the guy playing the scientist is one of the worst actors to ever appear on screen - and yes, there is a mute boy (who sorta kinda looks like a girl) and he's mute ever since he survived a plane crash that killed both his parents (hmmm- maybe therapy for the kid??). Then this hottie Italian girl is seen by Yeti (once he thaws - which takes FOREVER) -- and he is instantly in love with her - what is one of the most hysterical things about the movie is that this giant Yeti makes "bedroom eyes" at her - it's like a large Barry White trying to seduce a groupie. In fact, once the large Yeti picks up the hottie and has her against his chest - she accidentally touches the Yeti's nipple and yes, the film takes the time to show his large grey nipple GET HARD!!!! Yikes of all YIKES! Plus there's a collie dog in it because the Italian producer must have heard that American audiences like dogs and he sorta kinda tried to get a Lassie - there's also this insane scene where the Yeti eats a giant fish - keeps the large fishbone and uses it to comb the Italian girl's hair "Gee, thanks Yeti - now my hair is smooth and smells like dead trout. You're the best." This film is more bizarre than something Ed Wood could have ever dreamt up. If you are a fan of classic cinema crap - seek this baby out.

LOL! Not a bad way to start it. I thought this was original, but then I discovered it was a clone of the 1976 remake of KING KONG. I never saw KING KONG until I was 15. I saw this film when I was 9. The film's funky disco music will get stuck in your head! Not to mention the film's theme song by the Yetians. This is the worst creature effects I've ever seen. At the same time this film remains a holy grail of B-movies. Memorable quotes: "Take a tranquilizer and go to bed." "Put the Yeti in your tank and you have Yeti power." I remember seeing this film on MOVIE MACRABE hosted by Elvira. There is one scene where it was like KING KONG in reverse! In KING KONG he grabs the girl and climbs up the building, but in this film he climbs down the building and grabs the girl (who was falling)! Also around that year was another KONG clone MIGHTY PEKING MAN (1977) which came from Hong Kong. There is a lot of traveling matte scenes and motorized body parts. This film will leave you laughing. It is like I said, just another KING KONG clone. Rated PG for violence, language, thematic elements, and some scary scenes.

Very poorly dubbed Italian babe befriends unfrozen Giant.

This 1977 film is a director's tour de farce. It is one of the worst films ever made. Finding that out was a sublime pleasure which only z-movie afficianados can appreciate. The only reason that this film hasn't been on MST3K yet is that they would probably be rendered speechless. Nothing need be added to keep the laughs coming.

I hardly know what else to say. You will be literally dazed by the less than special effects, crappy storyline, and bad sets which make up the crazy world of YETI!

"Yeti - Giant of the 20th Century" is more than just a film. It's a phenomenon. And rather than just be watched, it should be studied and analyzed!

Being one of the worst movies ever made, and simultaneously also being one of the most popular crowd-pleasing movies at festivals, is quite an accomplishment. Sitting through this two-hour "experience" evokes a truckload of sentiments and impressions, varying from massively entertained onto deeply annoyed. "Yeti" superficially appears to feature all the characteristics of a raw and gritty euro-exploitation flick, but deep down it desires to be seen as an endearing and Disney type of family movie. Every aspect is shamelessly copied from somewhere else. The music is a rip-off of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, the script recycles the plot of the "King-Kong" movies, the young-kind-and-his-dog element comes from "Lassie", and the Yeti himself blatantly imitates Tina Turner's mega-mullet haircut.

The grandchildren of megalomaniacal business tycoon Morgan Hunnicut discover a completely intact but deep-frozen Yeti that apparently drifted from the Himalayas to Northern Canada over the course of a few million years. After a lengthy thawing process, which inexplicably includes hanging underneath a helicopter in an oversized phone booth, the loudmouthed Hunnicut comes up with the brilliant idea to transport the Yeti to New York for a sensational commercial stunt. Meanwhile, the furry giant fell in love with Hunnicut's 16-year-old niece (the big perv!) and evil business competitors attempt to destroy it by turning off the air-conditioning. So cruel!

The highlights - or lowlights if you wish - are too numerous to list. Beautiful Antonella Interlenghi makes the creature's nipple hard, there's a romantic interlude featuring a fishbone, the Yeti turns a skyscraper's elevator into a toy, and the titular primitive dude's height changes continuously. The last half hour is so exaggeratedly sentimental and sappy that it nearly ruins all the fun, and the "miraculous" return of Indie is a twist that even Disney would find too childish.