1978.Can a book be a B Movie? Snow Man says, yes. Yes, it can. Start off in the Himalayan Mountains with some explorers getting mauled by a 25-foot Yeti with cement spikey skin and Great White teeth. That’s a big Yeti. A standard two-story house is 20 feet tall to give you a frame of reference.
Two people survive.
Cut to years later and some lady is running a new ski lodge. She’s stressed to the max. She’s hired an up-and-coming celebrity brat for the grand opening. A couple pages of the girl acting snooty and shitty, and you know who’s gonna be Yeti food soon.
The Yeti has traveled from the Himalayas to California because he hates snow. I know that sounds like a joke but nope, that’s the premise. Snow makes him mad, but he has to live in snow? I don’t know, man.
So, now here he is on the California Mountain ready to eat people. First up is snooty Hollywood girl. The death scene is pretty glorious with lots of chomping and her splattered guts everywhere.
The ski lodge people hire the guy who survived the Yeti from the beginning of the book to hunt it down and kill it. He gets his ragtag group of ex-Vietnam buddies back together. One guy is the explosions guy, the other guy they have to get out of jail because he “plays by his own rules”…you know the drill. The A Team. They hire some underground gun maker to create implosive crossbow bolts. Yeah. Implosive.
Off they go to the ski lodge. Ol’ dude hooks up with stressed ski lady. Madly in love after a few hours. Commando team head off into the wild California mountains for some Yeti hunting. The book basically becomes a Men’s Adventure novel for a couple chapters. Ridiculously over the top brutal and gory death scenes. Predator ending.
Dell Books-1978
\\\\\Review by Nick Anderson. Instagram:@next_stop_willoughy
No comments:
Post a Comment