I was hoping for some terror that would shock or awe me. I was also hoping for a sense of uncharted territory. I thought this was going to be a suspense thriller with old-school vibes. As it turns out, this film was rather dull. Co-written and co-directed by Gene Gallerano and William Pisciotta, this is The Yeti. A wilderness film that tries to seem interesting while keeping the shock levels low. The cinematics of common ground though look as if it was rushed in the process. Overall, my boredom came around way too easily.

The film revolves around an expedition in Alaska territory in the year 1947. Its main characters are Merriell Sunday Sr. (Corbin Bernsen), and Hollis Banister (William Sadler). Both have vanished into the wilderness. Ellie (Brittany Allen), and Merrierll Sunday Jr. (Eric Nelsen) set off on an adventure to find them, however, their journey carries some monstrous paths. The forest has eerie moments, with those who are on the trek being the prey. Overall, the context of the film  rushes to get to the point of danger. 

The film requires more of a premise. It starts off with a sense to feel historical, but is tainted. The film has compass and voyager discussions, a lot of which are sloppy, C grade writing. The scenery is great to capture the essence of dangerous lands, but it is not utilized to the extent to flow with cinematics properly. Then there are others on the expedition, including Booker (Jim Cummings). Most of the conversations, however, are between Ellie, Merriell, and Booker—the other characters feel non-existent. I felt the movie had its moments to feel like absolutely nothing was happening. That is how dry my experience was. Overall, though, the thought of a monster and primal fear kept my attention span somehow. I remained hopeful.

With the film hurdling its way to find the scary, it creates a backstory that feels trapped, but then later it opens up with the many sound effects of the forest and the appearance of its namesake creature. The primal instinct to feel fear was lost to me, instead, my head was spinning. I was thinking repeatedly, who is coming around? No justice was coming around positively for me with The Yeti. Overall, the blurriness never evolved intoany sort of form to hold the film’s creativity or the feeling of being obscure or unique.

With the angle of trying to save someone but also face a form of creepy, The Yeti is one of those films where I did not lose faith,but I knew that it could be better. Primarily because the layouts around it were promising for a much more enriching experience.Moving throughout the terror, there were no proper conclusions or contexts to the automatic jumps of the many broken fragments in the film. These “broken fragments” of saving someone with no backstory behind  why they are missing in the first place were frustrating in not being cohesive on the level that I was anticipating. The concept of the direction continued to attempt at finding its thriving side but continually flopped. I still rate the film at two out of four stars.