Despite being handsomely shot in widescreen black and white "The Abominable Snowman", an early addition to the Hammer studio's 'horror' genre, doesn't really add up to much, It wasn't until they hit on the formula of revisiting the staple creations of Universal, (Frankenstein, Dracula, The Mummy), that they really hit it off. This is a largely amateurish affair, too talkative and poorly played. Peter Cushing does what he can with the part of the British explorer searching for the Yeti while Forrest Tucker is obviously cast as his gung-ho American counterpart in order to sell the film on the other side of the pond. Val Guest directs this piffle with an uncommon degree of seriousness. It's rubbish and should be treated as such.Saturday, 12 January 2019
THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN no stars
Despite being handsomely shot in widescreen black and white "The Abominable Snowman", an early addition to the Hammer studio's 'horror' genre, doesn't really add up to much, It wasn't until they hit on the formula of revisiting the staple creations of Universal, (Frankenstein, Dracula, The Mummy), that they really hit it off. This is a largely amateurish affair, too talkative and poorly played. Peter Cushing does what he can with the part of the British explorer searching for the Yeti while Forrest Tucker is obviously cast as his gung-ho American counterpart in order to sell the film on the other side of the pond. Val Guest directs this piffle with an uncommon degree of seriousness. It's rubbish and should be treated as such.
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