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Outside the window of his office at Scotland Yard's Department of Queer
Complaints, Colonel March (Boris Karloff) finds the footprint of a Yeti -
and since this is an occurence that's rather unusual in Central London, he
pays a visit to the Himalayan Mountaineering Club he just happens to be a
member of. So he attends the next meeting of the club where wannabe member
Mary Gray (Doris Nolan) - wannabe because by tradition the club is
all-male - shows some film footage of the last Himalayan expedition, where
a member of the expedition, Hastings, died a tragic death, something his
fellow climber and member Osborne (Ivan Craig) has never totally come over
- and he thinks the footprints of the Yeti that have in fact shown up on
the windowledges of all the members, are a warning from dead Hastings
whose spirit has come back as the Yeti to kill them all. And indeed,
during the screening of Miss Gray's film, the Yeti shows up, knocks out
March and disappears again - only March has secured the door with tape, so
one of the members has to be (or rather impersonate) the Yeti. From the
club's Sherpa caretaker Narbu (Alec Mango), March learns that on the day
before his death, Hastings has written a letter to his brother, and now
March figures the Yeti must be the brother - whose identity he doesn't
know but who must be one of the club members. So he sets up a trap at Ms.
Gray's place, announces the trap to all the club members, and still the
Yeti shows up at Ms. Gray's, tries to kill her, but March manages to
overpower him and unmask him as indeed one of the members of the club
(Olaf Pooley) - who though hasn't played a very prominent role in the
episode so far ... Now the idea of the Yeti roaming central
London is of course prime monster movie material - but unfortunately
little is made out of this premise, and the monster aspects of the piece
really only play second fiddle to a very straightforward murder mystery
that uses over-simplified psychology to come to the conclusion, and really
misses to come into its own as a proper whodunnit for lack of interesting
suspects. It's really a bit of a case of missed opportunities rather than
anything else here.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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Robots and rats,
demons and potholes, cuddly toys and shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill Your Bones to is all of that.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to -
a collection of short stories and mini-plays ranging from the horrific to the darkly humourous,
from the post-apocalyptic to the weirdly romantic,
tales that will give you a chill and maybe a chuckle,
all thought up by the twisted mind of screenwriter and film reviewer Michael Haberfelner.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to
the new anthology by Michael Haberfelner
Out now from Amazon!!! |
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