SHRIEK OF THE MUTILATED

Shriek of the Mutilated Movie Review

A professor takes some of his students on a search for the Yeti. Will they find him? If they do, will they escape? Most importantly...will you care? The answer to all three is no--yes, that may be a spoiler, but in all likelihood, you won't watch this movie anyway. In case you do have interest, fair warning now--there are more spoilers to come. This one comes from 1974, and looks like a few guys working at the local movie theatre donated two weeks of pay for the budget. The gem of this, of course, is the Yeti, who not only looks like a guy in a Yeti costume, but IS a guy in a Yeti costume.

"Boo!...uh, I mean...arghhh!!!!"

When I say it's a guy in a costume, I don't mean the movie is presenting this as a Yeti terrorizing people, and it happens to be a guy in a rubber suit, so don't picture Godzilla here. In the movie, it is a guy in a Yeti costume trying to scare people to death. Why? Well, I'm glad you asked. The whole point is to scare people to death instead of, say, shooting them, to keep them more appetizing...yes, Shriek of the Mutilated is not, in fact, a creature feature, but a cannibal movie. So, I give the movie credit for that bit of misdirection, though one has to wonder how any of the characters could be fooled by an old guy who maybe stands five-nine in a Yeti suit when every legend we hear about Yeti, or Bigfoot, or The Bumble, or so on, has them over seven feet tall, but this only adds to the unintentional hilarity in a movie absolutely filled with it. Other than this, the movie is what you expect it to be--awful, and complete with terrible acting, atrocious directing and shooting (the whiteout effects are particularly bad), a slow pace, and rubbish dialogue. The best thing about Shriek of the Mutilated is indeed the title of the film--it has to be one of the greatest movie titles ever. If you read this review, you know about the twist, which leaves no real reason to watch this movie. If you didn't read the review...you're likely not reading this, which is blowing my sleepy mind way more than it should be. 

On A Scale Of One To Ten: 4

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