In a plot quite similar to Alive (with a slight alteration in a few abominable snowmen), a collegiate football team and coaching staff (and crew that helps with the team) are on a plane bound for Japan. It crashlands in the Himalayas where a few Yeti reside (the film, for a bit, features supposedly one creature with a few more revealed later). While a few players are dead due to the crash (or even before as the plane was coming apart due to a serious storm), eventually the Yeti gets in on the action to kill them off (and eat them). With little food or resources, star quarterback Peyton Elway (Marc Menard, quite a pretty boy with pearly whites and blonde hair; he has the misfortune of having a first and last name from star quarterbacks) obeying his coach (Ed Marinaro) who tells him to make sure to lead and help the survivors, must somehow keep everyone safe from harm
with a blood thirsty/ flesh hungry Yeti on the rampage, good luck with that!
Unlike many Syfy creature features, "Yeti" carries a serious tone and offers very little in the way of the tongue-in-cheek approach or high camp. The creature costume is decent enough, and the emphasis on gore is of the severed limbs prop department variety. The hopping Yeti moments are ultimately when the film is at its hokiest. Peyton's flirty love interest is Sarah (Carly Pope), and she is eventually (obviously) kidnapped by a Yeti and taken off to his cave. Towards the beginning, two of the party go to find a radio box to call for help Garcia (Kris Pope) gets the "everything that could possibly go wrong does" developments of the film. Garcia has two legs that are broken after a bum fall, sees a friend brutally attacked by the Yeti, treks back after days of going through near starvation and succumbing to the cold only to be shot in the face with a flare gun! Ravin (Adam O'Byrne) is the chief antagonist among the cast just due to his douchebaggery. He's the guy that is always irritating everyone, asserting his opinion on the rest of the cast with them always on edge. He might have a point about waiting on help and needing to go and find it instead, but Ravin does so in such a hostile way (voice raised, insistent and persistent on the group doing as he believes is right) it just causes tension in an already anxious situation. It certainly makes Peyton's life more difficult. In the meantime, two rescuers, Sheppard (Peter DeLuise) and Fury (Ona Grauer) are trying to locate the party.
The film goes it straight. It is your basic fight for survival plot. The reveal of other Yeti isn't all that surprising, really. The leanings toward eating from the dead isn't new since "Alive" was notorious for it, or the fact that the plot just changes the players from soccer to football. The leads are okay, and the monster isn't all together silly-looking (which is a plus, really). The idea of not leaning on CGI for the monster was the right decision in my opinion. This doesn't do anything innovative or new. It is your garden variety monster-attacks-humans flick. And , to my disappointment, the sexy Crystal Lowe is positively wasted in a nothing secondary role while Brandon Jay McLaren (Harper's Island) is given a little to do but not much as the guy that is often in the middle of the running feud between Ravin and Peyton.
Unlike many Syfy creature features, "Yeti" carries a serious tone and offers very little in the way of the tongue-in-cheek approach or high camp. The creature costume is decent enough, and the emphasis on gore is of the severed limbs prop department variety. The hopping Yeti moments are ultimately when the film is at its hokiest. Peyton's flirty love interest is Sarah (Carly Pope), and she is eventually (obviously) kidnapped by a Yeti and taken off to his cave. Towards the beginning, two of the party go to find a radio box to call for help Garcia (Kris Pope) gets the "everything that could possibly go wrong does" developments of the film. Garcia has two legs that are broken after a bum fall, sees a friend brutally attacked by the Yeti, treks back after days of going through near starvation and succumbing to the cold only to be shot in the face with a flare gun! Ravin (Adam O'Byrne) is the chief antagonist among the cast just due to his douchebaggery. He's the guy that is always irritating everyone, asserting his opinion on the rest of the cast with them always on edge. He might have a point about waiting on help and needing to go and find it instead, but Ravin does so in such a hostile way (voice raised, insistent and persistent on the group doing as he believes is right) it just causes tension in an already anxious situation. It certainly makes Peyton's life more difficult. In the meantime, two rescuers, Sheppard (Peter DeLuise) and Fury (Ona Grauer) are trying to locate the party.
The film goes it straight. It is your basic fight for survival plot. The reveal of other Yeti isn't all that surprising, really. The leanings toward eating from the dead isn't new since "Alive" was notorious for it, or the fact that the plot just changes the players from soccer to football. The leads are okay, and the monster isn't all together silly-looking (which is a plus, really). The idea of not leaning on CGI for the monster was the right decision in my opinion. This doesn't do anything innovative or new. It is your garden variety monster-attacks-humans flick. And , to my disappointment, the sexy Crystal Lowe is positively wasted in a nothing secondary role while Brandon Jay McLaren (Harper's Island) is given a little to do but not much as the guy that is often in the middle of the running feud between Ravin and Peyton.