The Yeti (2026) Horror Movie Review | Blood Splattered Vlog

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[00:00:05]>> No, >> no, >> no, no. I'm Count Dracula.

[00:00:10]>> He's Count Jraula, and today we're going to talk about The Yeti, written and directed by Jean Gallerano and William Pesciota in their feature film debut.

[00:00:21]And what a debut it is, for all the wrong reasons. The movie takes place in the 1940s and follows the daughter of a cgrapher who is also herself a cgrapher who um is hired by the son of an oil tycoon to go on an expedition to find their parents because their parents went to Alaska.

[00:00:41]>> Yeah. In search of oil. Yep. And one of them is Bill Sadler.

[00:00:46]>> Yep. One of the parents is played by Bill Sadler who um classes up the movie while he's in it, but it is a glorified cameo. And unfortunately for all of them, uh, both expeditions are attacked by a Yeti. The Yeti is not a film I particularly enjoyed.

[00:01:04]>> Yeah. Now, uh, on on on on the good hand, uh, they don't make you wait too long for the Yeti.

[00:01:10]>> No, the good points of the movie are they don't wait too long for you to see the Yeti. The Yeti does have some cool kills in the movie, especially the first one, which we'll talk about in the spoiler section. I really like that first one. Overall, in terms of like Yeti movies, it's probably more in the middle. But the problem is is that the average Yeti movie is not that good.

[00:01:29]>> What would you say the worst one was?

[00:01:31]>> Something like Cry Wilderness most likely. You know, >> you know, there's some worse Yeti movies. There are some worse Yeti movies. In fact, there's probably some worse ones than that. I just remember that one because of [ __ ] uh MST3K.

[00:01:43]>> But there are definitely worse Yeti movies.

[00:01:46]>> Yeah. My problem with this movie, >> this at least has a Yeti in it is what >> that's true.

[00:01:50]>> Yeah, >> that's true. My problem with this movie, at least for me personally, is this movie has this ye old aesthetic to it, like an old monster movie, right?

[00:02:01]>> But it feels like it doesn't go far enough with that aesthetic. It doesn't embrace the hokiness >> of the aesthetic it's trying to go for.

[00:02:09]>> It It's trying to be a real movie, and that's a problem.

[00:02:12]>> Yes. It takes itself way too seriously.

[00:02:15]Yeah, it needed to be they needed to like skeleton a cadaavver it.

[00:02:19]>> Yes. Exactly.

[00:02:20]>> You know, and then then it would have been great.

[00:02:22]>> And you didn't even need to go as far as that where it's like a straight up spoof, right?

[00:02:26]>> Right.

[00:02:26]>> You could still like pull back a little bit and still have a little bit more of like the slasher with a yeti vibe, but at least have a little fun with it. This movie doesn't, and the points in which it tries to have some fun with it feel out of place given the rest of the movie. This is a movie that's tonally at war with itself. And it's very unfortunate because I really wanted to see a yeti go on a rampage with a bunch of [ __ ] goofy [ __ ] 1940s characters.

[00:02:53]>> Yeah.

[00:02:53]>> It also really wants us to be invested in like the fatherdaughter plot and I DID NOT CARE.

[00:02:58]>> OH, one bit.

[00:02:59]>> You're right. There was a father-daughter plot that I completely didn't care about. The other problem with this movie, and this is going to be the most obvious problem to anyone who watches this movie, it's very gunshy about its yeti. kills happen either offscreen or it'll like show like just like the yeti's arm. Yeah. And that's it. At the beginning of the movie, I was willing to roll with that, but I wanted to see more fullscale yeti at the end and it's very obvious with certain shots that they have a full yeti costume.

[00:03:25]>> Yeah. Yeah. They got a guy in a yeti costume and like the movie's already cheap, so showing the cheap costume is not going to do you that much worse.

[00:03:33]>> It's very obvious they're trying to do the Jaws thing. Less is more. And the more we show you, the more hokey and goofy it's going to be. But I'm sitting there going, I want the goofy hoke.

[00:03:43]>> Should have been goofy and hokey.

[00:03:44]>> I want you to go all in on the hokey.

[00:03:46]You're already giving me like the 1940s like monster movie style like credits and [ __ ] I want the rest of the movie to be like that. And also more to that point, this movie should have been in black and white.

[00:03:57]>> Yes. The way it is shot, it is shot like a black and white movie but in color.

[00:04:01]And I can't help but wonder if that was a compromise. probably was cuz the movie feels like it was intended to be black and white.

[00:04:09]>> Yeah, there are some highlights in the movie. The highlights in the movie are anytime you actually get to see the yeti kill somebody and there's a couple times and it's pretty cool. The other highlight in the movie is Jim Cummings is briefly in the movie.

[00:04:19]>> Yes, >> he gives one of the best performances in the movie because his character actually exists on the line of hokiness and seriousness that I think the movie's trying to sit and he's the only one who kind of pulls it off. For those of you who don't know, Jim Cummings is the director of Thunder Road and The Wolf of Snow Hollow. He was also in a really great movie called The Last Stop in Yuma County. Oh, yes. And in all three of those movies, he's a great actor. He's phenomenal. In this movie, he's one of the best parts of the movie.

[00:04:45]Unfortunately, it's not enough to save the movie. No. Uh, the other highlight in the movie is Bill Sadler, but he's really only in the beginning of the movie, and he's not in most of the movie. The rest of the movie is kind of boring.

[00:04:59]And it's the greatest thing you could be if you're trying to be a monster movie.

[00:05:04]>> Yeah. The other thing that's really frustrating about this movie is, okay, so I don't care about any of the characters and their actual emotional stakes. No matter how hard the movie tries to get me to, I really don't find myself feeling it at all. And to make things worse, the characters are all [ __ ] stupid. Yes. And here's the thing, stupid characters in horror movies can work. I've watched many movies where I just enjoy watching the characters die one by one because they're [ __ ] stupid and they deserve what they got. In order for that to work, I actually have to enjoy each of their deaths.

[00:05:34]>> It's got to be fun.

[00:05:35]>> And too many of their deaths happen offcreen. It's like you see like the yeti like okay, you don't really see the yeti, but you see like the edge of a yeti with the implication that it walks up to them while they're laying on the ground and then you cut to someone else while you hear their screaming off screen. Yeah, >> that's 90% of the deaths in this movie.

[00:05:54]>> Yeah. No, this movie really could have used like to just be a whole lot stupider and be like, you know, like turns out yetis are allergic to assos, you know? I don't know how else to put it. I need like a little bit of that like Fallout energy in the movie.

[00:06:09]>> Yes. Like >> Yes.

[00:06:11]>> That kind of like like like goofy retro [ __ ] stuff.

[00:06:15]>> Yes.

[00:06:16]>> And the movie doesn't commit to the bit unfortunately.

[00:06:18]>> No. No. unfortunately kind of doesn't, >> which is too bad.

[00:06:22]>> So, the Yeti is uh currently available to rent or buy on various streaming platforms. Pick your poison and enjoy if you're interested at all, but I'm not recommending it. I did not enjoy my watch of this movie. It is unfortunate because I was so excited when I watched the trailer because the trailer promises the kind of goofy movie I thought I was going to be.

[00:06:42]>> It's going to be just pure stupid. Even worse than that, the opening scene promises a movie that's going to be as goofy as I thought it was going to be.

[00:06:48]And then it doesn't do that.

[00:06:49]>> Doesn't do that. Yeah. Anyway, let us move on to the spoilers so I can talk about the opening scene as well as other scenes in this movie. Here we go.

[00:07:03]One of the earliest moments where it kind of has that kind of hokey vibe is the very first kill we see in the movie.

[00:07:10]>> Yes. when the guy is pulled through that ceiling and then the body falls down like half a body with the blood splatter and the guts and stuff and there's just that woman screaming in a corner, not running, not moving, just screaming like an old [ __ ] monster movie and the [ __ ] yeti credits popping with the kind of like theramin kind of vibe going on. In that moment, I was in.

[00:07:33]But then the rest of the movie does not have that vibe except for select moments. Another moment where they had that kind of vibe is the press conference. Oh yes, we're going into the Arctic.

[00:07:44]>> The American are going into the going going into the Atlantic territories, don't you know?

[00:07:48]>> And the actor playing the tycoon son is giving a very over-the-top kind of like rich [ __ ] performance. And I'm like, okay, I'm in. I'm in or whatever. And then the moment they get to the actual expedition itself, all of a sudden everyone's having like serious conversations about like their past and their lives and stuff. I I didn't care about any of it >> except for two characters. One is Jim Cummings character who does have scenes like that, but he kind of pulls off the balance a little bit better.

[00:08:16]>> And the other one is the most insufferable character in the movie, but he's also the most committed to the bit.

[00:08:22]And that's the [ __ ] like hick bomb expert guy.

[00:08:25]>> Yes.

[00:08:26]>> I kind of appreciated his presence after he was gone. And I realized that that kind of hokey vibe was gone with him.

[00:08:32]>> Yeah. cuz he kind of had like a performance that kind of had like an over-the-top accent that was like very theatrical in his delivery and whatnot.

[00:08:41]Like an old movie where they act like more like it's a play than like a movie.

[00:08:45]So when he was gone, you could definitely feel the missing of that presence cuz everyone else is giving more like trying to give more grounded real performances.

[00:08:52]>> Yeah. Which is not what this movie needed.

[00:08:54]>> And most of them aren't pulling it off very well.

[00:08:56]>> Bill Sadler is when he shows up, but he's only there for so long. Jim Cummings is good at both doing a hokey thing and having those serious moments, but he's also like on another level. Um, his death is also a great example of what I hate about a lot of the kills in this movie, though.

[00:09:10]>> I forgot how he died.

[00:09:11]>> Okay, he has a fake out at first, and the fake out I was fine with. He climbs the tower and then like he trips and like hits his head and is like dangling, and you think he like hung himself or something, but it turns out he just kind of hit his head. The real death happens when he falls and he's immobilized on the ground and the yeti just kind of walks up and stomps on him.

[00:09:30]>> Oh, right.

[00:09:31]>> But all you really see is like the tip of the yeti's toes. And I know you got like a really tall guy in a Yeti costume. So, could you give me like a wide shot, please?

[00:09:41]>> Yeah. Yeah. Like you never really get a good feel for what the Yeti actually looks like in its totality.

[00:09:47]>> You get a couple shots, but that's about it.

[00:09:49]>> Yeah. Yeah. It's not enough.

[00:09:51]>> No. No. But some of the best parts with the yeti are like when she's trapped in the cage and the yeti's coming after her cuz you get like the yeti's face in that those shots and whatnot. The only real spoiler in this movie is at the end of the movie, it turns out both of the parents are alive. One of them, the oil tycoon, kidnapped the yeti's kid.

[00:10:10]>> Yep.

[00:10:10]>> And that's why the Yeti is >> That's why the Yeti is on a rampage.

[00:10:13]>> Now, here's where I get to the dumbest plot point in the movie. At some point, Bill Sadler's character, which is the main character's father, the cgrapher, took the baby to protect it from the oil tycoon and trapped the oil tycoon in a cage. And the characters arrive and find him in the cage and then find Bill Sadler later with the baby in little cave he's hiding at with the baby. And at the end of the movie, the solution to the whole thing is him giving the baby back to the yeti. Why did he not give the baby back to the yeti? Wait, >> why was he hoarding the baby from the Yeti 2 if the whole goal was to return it to the wilderness in the first place?

[00:10:51]>> Yeah, because it's like >> was it injured? Was he nursing it back to health? Cuz if if so, they should have mentioned that.

[00:10:57]>> Yeah. I don't know.

[00:10:59]>> I thought that maybe there was going to be some sort of like twist. Okay. There was a couple twist possibilities. My favorite one is the one you actually brought up.

[00:11:06]>> Okay. So, they make a big deal about the fact that Okay, the Yeti that's attacking them is the Mama Yeti.

[00:11:11]>> Yeah. So, we have not seen the yeti's mate.

[00:11:14]>> Yeah.

[00:11:14]>> And I thought that was going to be a setup for something. And you had the most hilarious [ __ ] theory that Bill Sadler was going to turn out to be the Yeti's dad >> and he [ __ ] the Yeti. And I was going to be like, "Okay, THAT MEANS >> WHY ARE YOU WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO PROTECT THIS YETI? HE'S MY SON."

[00:11:32]THAT WOULD HAVE ELEVATED this [ __ ] movie from like a [ __ ] like two or three to at least a six if that's how it ended with the [ __ ] half yeti half human hybrid.

[00:11:46]>> The missing link.

[00:11:48]>> The other possibility was going to be that we were going to see some sort of like badass um >> daddy daddy yet like 20 ft tall or something.

[00:11:58]>> We never do. The most we see is like a silhouette of one when Bill Sadler returns the baby Yeti with the implication being that the two Yeti parents are going to kill him >> for taking their kid.

[00:12:06]>> I did not understand why he had not returned that Yeti days ago.

[00:12:10]>> Yeah, no kidding.

[00:12:10]>> Cuz there is no [ __ ] way the expedition to get to them didn't take days. This seems like this is your dad's fault now, actually. So, on top of everything, the last act of this movie introduces a major [ __ ] like hole in the logic of the movie that irritated me throughout the entire third act. It's unfortunate. I wanted to like this movie.

[00:12:30]>> Well, it your imagination based on the trailer went to a much better movie than the movie was.

[00:12:39]>> Yeah. Yeah, it did.

[00:12:40]>> That's that's that's that's really what it comes down to. And if you're going to have the characters be stupid, do it in that kind of hokey way like the beginning of the movie when she's just kind of sitting there screaming and not like running away or anything.

[00:12:52]That was funny.

[00:12:54]Yeah. Yeah. I It was like they just didn't have enough to sustain the entire movie.

[00:12:58]>> Yep. You know, >> so yeah, I do not recommend the Yeti.

[00:13:02]Not a fan.

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