TV Snow Monster

 

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SNOW BEAST-1977-At the Rill ski lodge winter carnival owned by Emma (Sylvia Sidney), a snow monster kills a skier. Her grandson, Tony (Robert Logan) wants to report it but Emma is afraid it will hurt business. Then a ski patrol member is killed. Meanwhile, former Olympic gold medal winning skier, now disillusioned, Gar Seberg (Bo Svenson) and his unhappy reporter wife Ellen (Yvette Mimieux), Tony's former lover, come for a visit (Gar is looking for a job). Tony believes in the monster and wants to hire Gar to kill it but Gar is more sympathetic. They try to convince the sheriff (Clint Walker) that a Bigfoot is running around. The white hairy creature attacks the lodge and Ellen gets lost in the woods. Gar and Ellen get trapped in a cabin with the monster outside. The sheriff kills a bear and that seems to close the case even though everyone at the lodge saw the attack! Gar, Helen and Tony convince the sheriff to go hunting just in case. After the sheriff is killed, Gar has a snowdown, I mean showdown with the monster. 

The dumbest part of this made for TV movie is the monster POV shots including one with a ski pole. Written by Joseph Stefano (PSYCHO (1960) and directed by Herb Wallerstein who directed many TV show episodes but Snow Beast is his only full-length movie.

 Unfortunately, he was killed in 1985 by his live-in maid who claimed self-defense.

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Corman In Argentina

 

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WARRIORS OF THE LOST KINGDOM-1985-A young sorcerer Simon (Vidal Peterson) sees his king and father killed and his kingdom destroyed. His princess girlfriend Aura (Dolores Michaels) is imprisoned. Simon is given a magical ring that transports him and his hairy companion Colfax away but the dummy loses the ring. Along the way he meets drunken smart ass warrior Kor (Bo Svenson) who eventually helps him fight the evil wizard Shurka (Thom Christopher), free his girl and win back his kingdom. 

This was one of seven movies Roger Corman produced and filmed in Argentina. It was written by Ed Naha and directed by Hector Olivera (BARBARIAN QUEEN).

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Shut The Door!

 

BEYOND THE DOOR 3-1989-In Belgrade Serbia overage stupid college students meet Prof. Andromolek (Bo Svenson). From the get go he's obviously evil because when a telegram arrives saying the mother of one of girls has been killed in a car accident he throws the message away without telling her. The others make fun of her because she's a virgin. 

Much of this contrived nonsense takes place on a moving train. It really sucks and has nothing to do with the original BEYOND THE DOOR (or BEYOND THE DOOR 2 for that matter). The director Jeff Kwitny later wrote episodes of the cartoon series “Animaniacs”.

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Italy in Arizona

 

THE MANHUNT-1984-In this low budget Italian production filmed in Arizona, a rancher (Ernest Borgnine) and a sheriff (Bo Svenson) railroad a stranger (John Ethan Wayne) into jail claiming he stole two horses. He escapes and leads the warden (Henry Silva) law on a chase while trying to prove his innocence. 

Director/writer Fabrizizio de angelio De Angelis is credited as Larry Ludman and on several other films he made including KILLER CROCODILE.

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