Bad Movie Review: Man Beast
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- Hair-raising excitement in the icy lair of man-like creatures roaming the roof of the world! We review Jerry Warren's Man Beast (1956)
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Summary: Connie Hayward mounts an expedition into the Himalayan Mountains looking for her brother, who has not returned from a previous trek trying to locate the Yeti, or "Abominable Snowman". Arriving at her brother's last-known camp Connie and her companions find only a strange old guide, Varga. They are soon attacked by gigantic Snowmen but are not half as surprised as when Vargas reveals his secret origin and the plans he has for Connie.
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Jerry Warren: Legend. Judging his films by normal standards, this is probably his best film 😂
And ppl rip on Eddie Wood....With directors like Warren about \🙄/
This is Jerry Warren's best film. Imagine how awful then all his other films must be.
Don't have to. I've seen them. 🤮
You mean "The Wild Wild World of Batwoman" and "Frankenstein Island"?
@@robotrix Well, someone had to take them for the team. :D
@@patrickdrazen8411 Even worse! Incredible Petrified World, Attack of the Mayan Mummy, Curse of the Stone Hand and Teenage Zombies together consist the worst body of work this side of Andy Milligan!
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I once owned Frankenstein Island on VHS. I got physically ill watching it. Later, thinking I might have been unfair to Warren and my nausea completely coincidental, caused by something else, I watched the movie again. This time I had both nausea and a headache.
Oh, no! A deadly face avalanche! Tragically, those have killed countless numbers of mountain climbers.😂😂
Happened to me once. I was out shoveling and a face avalanche from the roof caught me full on!
And if somehow you do actually survive you’d still have to live with the inevitable embarrassment 🙂✌️
I caught a face-full of avalanche once when i walked in front of a snowblower. Not my finest moment 😅
Lol!
Dr. Zoidberg to the rescue, he knows how to handle yetis.
Yeti is, yeti ain't.
Always friends with the Abominable Snow, Yeti always hated me…
Ha. You had a similar comment on Brandon tenolds Yeti video a few days ago.
@@WTF_WHAT_THE_FLICK "He is soooooo big~!" 🎼🎶🎵💃🕺
1:21 The dangers of Bronson Canyon are no joke! Why, the number of Billion Bubble Machine-related deaths alone is staggering! 😳
Haha, not to mention the risk of running into a similar gorilla suit - minus the head.
I think I can describe the shocking reveal of Varga's plan in one word: Eeow!
Sometimes, even a bad director tries his (or her) hand at a different genre and comes up with something decent. I've found that to be the case with Bert I. Gordon tackling a ghost story in "Tormented" (1960). While Gordon's "see-through" effects didn't always work in giant monster films, those effects actually work well in a ghostly tale.
The natives call it yeti, among othe things. Abominable snowman is a western term derived from the mistranslation of the Nepalese term 'metho-kangmi' meaning abominable man of the rocks (not shows). Yet means 'rock beast'.
I'm sorry. I saw this movie six decades ago and still love it for its glorious, unashamed ineptitude. I do wonder where Warren got the stock footage.
You saw the premiere?
@@dubuyajay9964
No, thank god. TV circa 1960.
I think Don Dohler's 1978 effort The Alien Factor is his best work. Like Plan 9 From Outer Space it combines all sorts of golly-gee-sci-fi-wiz along with a surprising element of soulfulness. Great fun!
I think it's the other way around isn't it? What the natives called the Yeti, the white guys called abominable snowman.
Or the abominable film of the abominable snowman/yeti...
Ted V. Mikel's debut "Strike Me Deadly" is surprisingly good. It is well directed thriller and the stock footage blends well with the action on screen. A solid debut would be followed by grade Z flicks like Astro Zombies and The Corpse Grinders.
ANY movie that can use the line "he meddled in things that Man should best leave alone" is okay by me.
Agreed! - That line should be in every movie IMHO 😀✌️
"Do you want to catch a snowman ?"
LOL
Jerry Warren, oh wow, the Wild World of Batwoman guy. Varga is part Yeti so, question, I guess.
If Varga is part yeti, would it be of the Superhuman offspring type or cross species hybrid so he's sterile type? I only see a bad ending for "all" of those Yeti either way.
Honestly, the only way this makes sense is if Varga is trying to get revenge on the Yeti for raping his mother... add that to my growing list of sentences I can't believe I wrote.
Was "Rock Madison" supposed to be the missing guy?
Al Adamson's best: Satan's Sadists
Larry Buchanan's: A Bullet for Pretty Boy
Bert I Gordon: The Magic Sword
Jess Franco: Attack of the Robots
Eddie Romero: Terror is a Man
Jess Franco: Eugenie de Sade - he made so many bad "erotic" films, similarly titled that you might not notice this.
Good picks, there! Personally, I loved all of Eddie Romero's "Blood Island" films. I also have a soft spot for Jess Franco's films, though I think he does his best work when writing barely-camouflaged smut with a plot.
@@baronhausenpheffer Brides of Blood is actually not too bad. I can't call it good, but it's the most interesting and entertaining of the bunch.
Coincidentally, I was going to watch this movie last night but decided to get some sleep instead. I will definitely watch it tonight though, if only to (not) see Rock Madison. I see Rock Madison has 2 movie credits on IMDb, both starring roles in Jerry Warren movies. Imagine how it felt to get second billing to a non-existent person. Ouch. Yet another great review with some solid laughs. Thanks!
The fact that Rock Madison even has a IMDB page is hilarious.😆
@@shannondore Indeed!
If you REALLY need sleep, just put on Jerry Warren's The Incredible Petrified World. You'll be out like a light in no time!
Idk I thought Rock Madison was pretty good in his performance on this flick
Rock Madison will win an Oscar one day - for "Best Non-Screen Appearance".
Pretty much every "actor" in hollywood today needs to be a non-existant screen credit.
..and that seems to be the end of sentence. F-ing brilliant, my co-workers all looked at me as I laughed out loud. Thank you Jerry & thank you Jaime
There were glimmers of the good movie this might have been if it had a bigger budget (and maybe a better script). There are a number of movies where shooting around the small budget actually adds something to the film. Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to be one of them.
I’ve seen this before, many years ago. Definitely unique film making...to say the least! It’s oddly watchable to be honest. Another Jerry Warren extravaganza!!
Never thought I would see a review of this film. Movie is so obscure, I've only seen it once on TV many, many years ago. Unfortunately, I only saw the end of the movie. Imagine my surprise when there was a DVD release of this movie back in 2002. Bought a copy. Funny how our intrepid explorers are wearing light, NOT heavy, jackets to hike up the Himalayas. No frost bite, no snow, no indication the altitude is affecting their breathing, etc... Unfortunately (or fortunately), the DVD is long out of print.
TBH, this was looking like a pretty credible Z-movie until the "twist" about hybridized yeti. I didn't see anything I couldn't forgive, and I'll personally put up with a lot of mountain climbing (a certain MST3K episode desensitized me).
“Deep Hurting! …Deep Hurting! “ 😉✌️
Thank you for not speaking its name.
By cuting of one of the Corners of the Love-Triangle, the Yeti acts like a blunt Cupid. Albeit a very blunt one.
all the actors look eerily similar to friends at high school, except the old guy. He looks eerily similar to an old guy.
At 1.06 one of the protagonists says that the Abominable Snowman is what the natives call the Yeti; surely yeti is what the natives call the yeti and Abominable Snowman is what Westerners call the yeti.
I was halfway watching when I recognized some of the music as some of the same used in “Night of The Living Dead” over 10 years later. Not sure if it was written for this but probably “library” music. It’s very distinctive; in NOTLD it was used when they run through for the truck through the crowd of ghouls during their ill-fated attempt to reach the gas pump.
Some of the music used in NOTLD pops up in various movies made before and after it. I've heard it in mysteries and dramas. This might be the first horror film I've heard it in.
having never seen this myself, just the clips provided give me some suspension of disbelief regarding the obviously-not-Himalayas being a credible substitute for them. it's the black-and-white film in particular that really helps it, makes it easier to believe that it's a high-altitude, low-precipitation setting (as opposed to using Californian mountains to stand-in for places with a very flat geography, for example)
I had a very odd man recommend this, Yeti said he was biased, because the movie was based on his life.
this doesn't look TOO bad... my collection of extremely cheap bad movies includes 1954's The Snow Creature, directed by W Lee Wilder (Killers from space, Phantom from space). Without having seen 'Man Beast' for comparison, only your review, can I be certain that it's the worse movie? Well, no, but...
Man Beast looks to me like a so bad it's enjoyable movie. I love movies like The Indestructible Man (starring Lon Chaney Jr) that are so ridiculous but you find yourself hooked.
The Yeti seriously needs to make a comeback in cinema, I just feel that it's still not really getting the full respect it deserves long after THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN.
At least the costume looks better than the Snow Creature.
I like to think that the fake actor in the credits played the never seen dead brother.
Yetis. Otherwise known as me after the covid quarantine
I know it's a bit off topic, but the Doctor Who production team when they did their version of the story used Snowdonia to stand in for Tibet. It's a wonder they didn't bump into the Carry On, as they used the location for the Khyber Pass....
Because the movie is in black and white, I'm not even sure if the actors ever interacted with real snow... and maybe if because I'm experiencing the hottest summer in my country's history, but filming with snow clothes on the Californian desert sounds like a very unpleasant experience
At least one guy brought a blunt.
😆
Maybe I'm underestimating the allure of the habit back in the day, but did people actually smoke while on high altitude climbs?
I love the earnest way the actors address each other...as if an Oscar nomination might be a possibility...tongue in cheek ..no brain in head comes to mind
I was excited I thought Man Beast might be like Manbearpig from South Park!! 😳😳😳
Not sure how flattering it would be to be cast as a woman that can attract a yeti. ...btw, "hit in the face by an avalance" 👍
It’s actually been an entire sub-genre of kidnapped women erotica for many years.
Manos: The Hands of Fate was easily Hal Warren's (no relation to Jerry) best movie... because it was his ONLY movie.
That movie still gives me nightmares from seeing it in childhood.
I love these reviews. I always wish they were a bit longer.
Wheres Cushing and Tucker when you need 'em!
Nothing cures freezing mountain cold like wearing a trilby hat and blowing cold breath into your already freezing hands..
However Rock Madison has to exist, it must be true. What an action name that is.
Jerry Warreness... 🤣🤣
LOL I recognized the girl visually and I confirmed it on IMDB. Asa Maynor was the girl in the bathtub scene from The Girl in Lovers Lane, one of the more downbeat episodes of MST3K. She was a real fox in that movie though
Yet he remains a mystery... (Quoting Rock Madison)
Good review! Glad I found the channel!
Here's a super random useless fact: there was a Finnish comedy movie from 1954 called Pekka ja Pätkä Lumimiehen Jäljillä (Pekka and Pätkä on the Snowman's Trail). It even precedes Man Beast by two years, does that make it the oldest movie about the yeti?
W. Lee Wilder's The Snow Creature is usually cited as the first (another we will probably review some time). That's also 1954, so it's a near run thing.
Glad you pointed out the ups and the downs.
The most non lethal avalanche in History.
Yeah let's catch a Snowman
Rock Madison was the backup bass player for Meat Loaf.
Speaking of To Catch A Yeti... RIP
Varga went on to sing and dance for 90s electro-crap band the Prodigy.
How come most of the members of the expedition NEVER WEAR GLOVES?!
If Jerry Warren had waited just two more years, he could have done a Bigfoot movie ( first reports of Bigfoot came out in 1957 and was covered by newspapers across the country) then filming California would have worked.
If you look at the times Roger Corman got a good budget, he made great movies. Corman's 1950's look cheap, because they were. The one really great movie he made ( in my opinion) besides his Poe series was THE ST.VALINTINES DAY MASSCRE. A really good cast, and really good script; Corman didn't waste a minute in the film.
Yes! Thank you for covering this!
Another Yeti B movie: Ice Man aka Yeti: Giant of the 20th Century. Directed by Gianfranco Parolino. He also made movies in alias name called Frank Kramer
Pity, they didn't run into Cobra-La.
Saw this not long ago- always a sucker for a yeti film. Kind of fun in it's cheapo way. Interesting to compare with The Abominable Snowman- very much the gold standard of such films.
Surely the so called natives would call it yeti and not the other way around
What made me do a double take was Dr. Erikson smoking a cigarette at high altitude -- he must have some powerful oxygen-sucking lungs, and those cigarettes must be laced with some oxidizing substance, or maybe he mixes a little bit of gun powder with his tobacco; which goes to show that some people like living on the edge 😄
Have you seen "I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle" from 1990? If not and you feel like watching an old Norton Commando eat a traffic warden you should give it a watch.
Have you reviewed Snowbeast (1977)? That's good for a laugh, a yeti played by a guy in a fur coat!!!
Not yet.
My vote for the best movie from a generally bad director would have to be “Hi-Riders” from Greydon Clark. Not technically too good but if you’re a car freak you could probably dig its low budget action and cool soundtrack.
Inspired by your recommendation, I checked out the trailer and it's very entertaining, though I'm not a huge car freak. But the cars in Hi-Riders are very cool. Looks like there's lots of hot '70s chicks and nudity too. I don't think many in the large cast are actors and it shows. They may well have appeared for free beer. It's on RUclips and I think I'll give it a look.
I have to disagree with the concept of getting a shot and not being told the side effects before hand. It happened to me. In my case I was told there were no side effects when it really brought on early menapause.
I think they should brinning 90 cases of Vodka.
This is what happens when you get Broden's office lanyard wrong again
Love the t-shirt. Fun review, thanks. Have you seen Terror in the Midnight Sun (1959)..? Another giant snow creature. And the personal drama ; )
Here you go ruclips.net/video/SMgbnuQHD_8/видео.html
@@DarkCornersReviews Thanks ; )
I like Man Beast. Of course it´s the so bad it´s good way but at least there are some nice ideas and decent acting by the Doctor and Varga.
Of course it looks like California and of course their attire isn't appropriate for the region. They just haven't discovered the Himalayan mountains when this was filmed, so they had no idea what to expect!
Wait, maybe that was the reasoning for sci-fi movies of that era...
Best Movies by bad directors:
Al Adamson
Satan's Sadists (1969). Tough to find anything good in his filmography, but Sadists is probably his best. The little seen Jessi's Girls (1975) is also worth a look.
Charles Band
Trancers (1984). Known mostly as a producer rather than a director in the early days of Full Moon, he did direct one of their early good films with Trancers. The rest of his directoral career has been downhill.
Uwe Boll
Rampage (2009). Rightly considered one of the worst directors of all time, at least some of his movies (House of the Dead, the Bloodrayne trilogy) are entertaining. Rampage is the rare actually competent movie in his catalogue and has enough action to keep you interested.
Larry Buchanan
Strawberries Need Rain (1971). I have to admit, I'm a fan of several Buchanan films. Naked Witch (1961), Loch Ness Horror (1982), and Mistress of the Apes (1979) are by no means good, but they are entertaining. That being said, Strawberries, despite being a sexploitation flick, is probably his best.
Rene Cardona Jr.
Tintorera: The Killer Shark (1977). Honorable mention to Beaks: The Movie (1987)
Coleman Francis
The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961). Not really fair since he only has 3 credits as a director, but I couldn't leave him off. Beast is terrible, but it is his most entertaining.
Jess Franco
The Awful Dr. Orloff (1962). This movie got him acclaim as a young up-and-coming Euro-Horror master. The rest of his career proved that wrong.
Bert I. Gordon
Attack of the Puppet People (1958). I'll always be partial to Food of the Gods (1976), but Puppet People is his best. Burned at the Stake (1982, aka The Coming) is also worth a look.
Ulli Lommel
Tenderness of the Wolves (1973). Another director rightly considered one of the worst ever; he actually knew how to direct, he just stopped caring. If Horror/exploitation is more your thing, The Boogey Man (1980) and Olivia (1983) are also both pretty good.
Ted V. Mikels
The Corpse Grinders (1971). His early movies weren't good, but they had a certain charm. His later stuff is just bad.
Andy Milligan
The Naked Witch (1967). No one takes an interesting premise and then makes a mind-numbingly boring movie quite like Milligan. The second-best movie that I've mentioned called The Naked Witch is probably the best of a bad lot.
Albert Pyun
The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982). This movie being one of the best sword and sorcery movies ever made is proof that even a blind squirrel can occasionally find a nut.
Eddie Romero
Black Mama White Mama (1973). Honorable mention to the Blood Island trilogy (Brides of Blood, 1968; Mad Doctor of Blood Island, 1968; Beast of Blood, 1970).
Cirio H. Santiago
TNT Jackson (1974). Honorable mention to Firecracker (1981).
Ray Dennis Steckler
The Thrill Killers (1956). Nothing good here, but it's at least watchable.
Ed Wood Jr.
Bride of the Monster (1955). Glen or Glenda (1953) might be a little better-made, but it's nowhere near as entertaining.
Re: Ed Wood, Bride of the Monster is the closest thing Wood made to a good movie, but Glen or Glenda is the closest thing he made to art. It's a very personal work that is at times outright expressionist, whereas the rest of his work was just variations on standard genre tropes.
Mikel's debut "Strike Me Deadly" is actually a good movie. Check it out.
@@a.champagne6238 Haven't seen that one. I'll have to check it out.
I thought Milligan's Naked Witch was a lost film.
@@KRhetor So after some research it appears you are correct. I could have sworn I saw this film about 20 years ago as The Naked Temptress (a known alternate title) but that appears to be impossible. Now I'm wondering what movie I'm remembering. Man getting old sucks.
I hate to break it to you, but this *IS*, by any objective or subjective measure, Jerry Warren's best film. "Wild World of Batwoman" had a few funny moments but stretched 45 minutes of so-so movie to a standard 90-minute length. "Frankenstein Island" was absolutely bonkers in a "so-bad-it's... incredible" sort of way.
For another director, how about Al Adamson? He made some real turkeys, but I'd defend "Girls for Rent", the original "Psycho-A-Go-Go", and (to a slightly lesser extent) "Five Bloody Graves" as good, fun, action-packed, eminently enjoyable movies. Really, as long as you kept him away from "Universal monster homage" horror films, Adamson could do solid work.
Was "Frankenstein's Island" the one with an exasperated Robin exclaiming "You're holding a fucking dinghy!" at one point in his review? Thinking of that always puts a smile on my face! 😁
please consider reviewing return of the killer shrews from 2012. james best returns in this film reprising his original role. after the first killer shrews film he went on to co-star in the dukes of hazzard. in this film he is reunited with 2 other cast members from that series. also, bruce davison is cast as a major character from the first film. thank you.
This was a classic review!
One of my favorite films
Me personally I liked this flick very much ... I have on this on VHS 👌🏻
Varga looks a heck of lot like Peter Woodward.
Those yeti are dope af.
I may be wrong but I don't think Robin ever reviewed any Ray Dennis Steckler films yet.
Maybe, but did ROBIN review them????
Nothing directed by RDS, but they did do _Eegah,_ where he had a bit acting role. I’d be ok if it stayed that way 😅
Great review, I dig the shirt, do they have it in non v neck?
Warren is my surname. I'm proud to say that this is no relation.
if only the yeti had tinder
Budget so low they couldn't afford gloves.
I love this movie lol , huge fan of cheesy low budget scifi-horror. 👍👍
"What are the good movies from bad movie makers..." OK, I can think of a few "... like Jerry Warren?" OK, may as well ask me to stop the sun with my hands.
A good movie from directors that are this bad? When they're this bad, anything good is a fluke.
"may as well ask me to stop the sun with my hands" 😁
Isn't it a pity that Rock Madison and Alan Smithee never made a film together?
peripheral vision. not something that exists in a horror movie.
Ty🤜🤛
Featuring The Not Yeti For Prime Time Players.
The only yeti monster movie In the 1950s
The Abominable Snowman in the greatest Hammer horror film since The Quatermass Xperiment, a.k.a., The Creeping Unknown.
Do blackenstien one day
Bad directors with good films? Early Ray Dennis Steckler. His 60s films are mostly well-made. But in 70s he started making awful schlock.
Whenever these kind of anti-auteur, Z-movie individuals make either a not-bad movie or an entertaining movie. It is usually because with the former they make a movie where they do the best they can with limited resources or with the latter they make a movie entertaining 100% not for the reasons that they intend.
The yeti is not white, it's brown or black.
*braces against wave of hate*
The LotR trilogy is a good film series by an otherwise underperforming director.
I really like Braindead (AKA Dead Alive) for what it is, but PJ perpetually disappoints, from King Kong to Meet the Feebles to the... eeeugh Hobbit trilogy. And then you have LotR, which basically led to an entire High Fantasy/Tolkien Renaissance for the under-35 demographic.
'" they're coming for our women '"
“They've come to kill us! And take our women! And our precious metals!” 😆
Broden
Jerry had little to do with making these films!he just bought the rights and plastered himself all over them
Uh-oh ..... if you’ve spent more than six minutes on this, it’s got to be good!