Yeti: Giant Of The 20th Century (1977)

My rating - 4/10

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A giant Yeti type creature is discovered frozen in the ice. A rich industry boss hires a professor to lead an expedition to study the find, but it's soon becomes clear that the boss has unethical ideas on what to use the Yeti for, and when it thaws out all hell breaks loose.

This low budget Italian movie is a real blast for those that love dumb films. Bad acting from most of the cast, bad dialogue, some wonderfully bad special effects, making you wonder how the hell anyone thought this looked good, even back in the late 70s. The young lead actress is Antonella Interlenghi who would later go on to play Emily in Lucio Fulci's classic City Of The Living Dead. This I believe was her first leading role, which isn't bad considering she was only 15 at the time of filming.

There's a couple of very mild gore scenes, but for the most part this is pretty slow moving. I have read that it was made as a sort of rip-off of the then recently released King Kong remake, and watching it again now you can clearly see the similarities. I've always had a bit of a soft spot or this movie, but I'm not exactly sure why. It has its fun moments here and there but unless you're a lover of bad movies then you'll probably want to give this one a miss.

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