Yeti: The Giant of the 20th Century
The S Kate M πŸ’›πŸ’™
The S Kate M πŸ’›πŸ’™
skatem@mstdn.social

To quote a fellow #Monsterdon watcher from a few months back: β€œβ€¦of all the films we’ve watched, that was one of them!” My favourite comment of all time, and I’m sorry I don’t remember who tooted it.

Bluedepth

The hauler truck was the Ford Pinto after all.

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

Anyway, whatever his evil plan is, Yellow Jacket Man has the Little Brother as a hostage and tries to shoot the Yeti with a large rifle but fails to hit, and the Yeti rescues the little brother and screams more, then knocks a truck over and squishes Yellow Jacket Man with his foot.

The cops show up but so far have not shot at the Yeti.

Ben Zanin
Ben Zanin
gnomon

wait did the dog just return from the dead

or is Herbie still stuck in the warehouse, hallucinating on too much oxygen

Patioboater
Patioboater
patioboater

I have seen some movies that make no sense over the years, but this thing may be in a class by itself. I mean, using the yeti to sell gasoline and snack foods has thus far been the *most* coherent part of this plot.

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

Back at the warehouse, the cops have decided that the Yeti is guilty; the Smart Daughter tries to explain that he was asleep and so he is innocent.

Back at the cop factory, which inexplicably has a Giant Univac Computer in the background, the top cop decides that the Yeti is guilty and sends cops to attack the Yeti. He tells the eccentric rich guy this via a phone call, and the Eccentric Rich Guy is sad, crying at the end of his gigantic table.

Bluedepth

The only way to tame the wild Yeti is with a huge curly mass of steel wool. Roughly fifteen minutes of passion and he’ll be asleep in moments. Like a man.

Ross of Ottawa
Ross of Ottawa
ottaross

I like how they're sneaking around behind the heavy equipment peeking around corners like the 15m tall monster will be hiding under a box or something.

Sordid Amok!
Sordid Amok!
SordidAmok

The yeti woke up, killed an egghead, reconnected his breathing tubes and went back to sleep. Sounds plausible

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

After getting more oxygen, the Yeti makes up and is mad; he seems to realize that the sleazy goons were the source of the trouble and starts smashing them in a Targeted Rampage. They run outside and start hiding behind construction equipment, which is the strategy I used in the construction equipment levels in X-COM.

Ross of Ottawa
Ross of Ottawa
ottaross

The speeding cop-car sequences seem totally gratuitous. Probably necessary to get the filming rights in Toronto in 1977.

Ben Zanin
Ben Zanin
gnomon

Time check, 1h17m, woman screaming while grabbing her head in terror and then fleeing. Perfect GIF capture moment.