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Dr Wilson (Robert Burton) and Erik Engström (Sten Gester) lead an
expedition to a meteor that crashed somewhere in Lapland, and that
eventually turns out to be a spaceship, a spaceship that has brought a
giant hairy beast to earth that does what all these giant hairy beasts
seem to do: Kill. Soon enough, the beast has destroyed the expedition's
airplane, and with it its radio, and now they are truly cut off from the
outside world - which leaves it to Erik and Doctor Wilson's niece Diane
(Barbara Wilson) to go for help by ski. Yet on the way to wherever, Diane
has a nasty skiing accident, and she and Erik only just make it to a
rescue hut - that is attacked though by the beast. And while Erik is
knocked out and buried under the rubble, only to be saved a short time
later by some Lapps who also save the other expedition members, Diane
makes a getaway, but is soon captured by the beast and brought to a safe
place it seems, where she soon meets 3 spacemen (who have no further
funcion in the story, they just meet her and are never seen again) while
the beast is out to attack the next village where the members of the
expedition are currently presiding. Erik notices the scarf the beast is
holding is Diane's, and he and a mob of locals follow the beast to bring
it down. The beast has since picked up Diane again, but drops her just in
time before the mob sets fire to it and pushes it off some cliffs to its
death. After that, everybody sees the alien spacecraft taking off again
... A 1950's giant monster film, done the Swedish way, and
actually filmed in the Arctic. And that all said, the film is not very
good: The story is a bit too clichéd, the interwoven lovestory between
Erik and Diane seriously hampers the film's pacing, a few too many skiing
scenes don't help the film's pace much either, and the monster looks
rather ridiculous and seems to change in scale repeatedly. That all said,
the film is on the other hand beautifully shot, and the Arctic locations
are as unusual as they are breathtaking and do bring an extra value to the
movie. As a whole though, the film is more of a science fiction oddity
than a bona fide classic - and genre fans will have to see it for exactly
that reason. In 1962, schlock producer/director Jerry Warren got hold of
the film, recut and redubbed it, added extra scenes and turned into Invasion
of the Animal People.
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