I loved this movie, I was a kid when I watched this, it was Big Bad Bo Svenson that made me watched this.

I hear ya! I was 23.

Movies were better back then.👍

Same here I saw this movie too and I have a d.v.d box set with it on one of the d.v.d.s even though the version I have of it is the shortened version as some scenes were cut out like the scene where they were in the school and the main heroes grandmother was talking to the girl called Betty Joe saying 'Betty Joe Smile' and she looks up and sees the title monster right outside the window and another part was when everyone was running out of the school they didn't show that as it showed Betty Joe going right to the truck her mother was in after the title monster killed her and I even saw the remake of this movie where it had one of the main characters of the Dukes of Hazzard t.v. series in it where he played a researcher studying linxs with his 2 assistants and his daughter.

People are bashing it because they have more violent tendencies and this movie is not explicit. Its a good movie, it doesn't have to be gross with violence so horrific to understand the point of the scene.

Absolutely true. CGI and bad acting today ruin movies.

Then most of them are crap then. I saw this in 1977 as a kid and again in 2005. They don't even show the monster dead at the end. Not satisfying just as I remembered as a kid. I'm not a gore hound but this made for TV crap did not impress me when I was like 8 yrs old.

@@user-kf8wb2cq4f You think the acting in this is good? OK.

@@deathmetaldouglas69what type of movies scared you as a kid?

@@capoislamort100 There are quite a few. I'll just stick to a couple. "Horror Express" (1972) scared the CRAP out of me and my lil brother. We saw it on TV probably in 1976. Had to sleep with the light on for months. A couple years later the re-make of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". Having no light was not enough. Now we could not SLEEP either.

Cheyenne & Buford Pusser [Bo Svenson the 2nd Buford Pusser].

Almost 14 foot of human being combined !

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Clint Walker wasn't in the credits!

He was mentioned in credits as special guest star@@jacchristian4132

me too....I hid behind our couch and watched it.

1:25:32 And yet the same face in broad daylight is the least scary thing EVER.

Because that scene was based on a true story.

Me too. Absolutely terrified me.

Yep Bro it scared the shit out of me so much I ended up crawling into my parents bed. LOL. this was back when it first aired on TV in the 70s. I was 10 years old. LOL. Just found it on you tube here and recgognised it straight away..... Ahhhhh.

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Yeh I'm still a kid at 64

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Staying a kid means you’ll always have fun.

@sharongoodsell9341 I'm 61 years old, and I still love old movies. There is nothing wrong with enjoying movies and/or TV shows from the past. You keep on being you. Peace and God bless. 😊

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Me too! Better music, people trying to better themselves not canceling or becoming woke😂!

I hear you. I would like that too, but I had a lot of heartache back then as my best friend was murdered. That was a living nightmare. I still deal with it today. Didn't realize, but back then they didn't have a name for it. I have PTSD because of it. I don't know all the triggers. It's horrifying when it happens, as I can't make it stop. But this movie is great with low level gore. All the crap that's happening today I would love it to all go away. Nice there are more people with the same feelings about what's happening around us in America. but you know, I think it's happening world wide. Now that's scary.

@@Ann-qr2pv I am very sorry you had to go through that❤️❤️

@@BabakPA Thank you. One day at a time. It'll be okay someday. Maybe. :)

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Exactly. Or a b1t©h in high heels!! I always say you can always tell when a si©k POS man wrote/directed a movie! And the $+upid ridiculous s3x scenes!! I see that bullsh1t I'm done. IDC how good of a movie it had the potential of being.

I agree. Good horror movies with imagination are a thing of the past. The teenage/pretty young things are also stupid.

@@Kimberly-pf4iy Yes, I usually turn off when I see the main characters are all young and good looking. 😂

Yeah the 70s were great 👍 😊

Not to be a sour puss but the 70s were just as bad as now. We were still at odds with Russia(Soviet Union) as we are today, Israel conflicts with Arab world still going on and on top of that we had impending oil embargo in 79. Maybe like me you were just young kid and seemed less immediate than it was for our parents. Just guessing.

@@kindspirit7 Thanks for your reply,yes the world has it’s problems and it always will but moving to what is good can help everyone.

@@kindspirit7 Thanks for your reply,yes the world has it’s problems and it always will but moving to what is good can help everyone.

Thor the only begotten son of Woton Took his hammer 🔨 and killed all the snow monsters in Scandinavia Been over two thousand five hundred years not a single snow monster spotted 😮

yES yES...tHE aBOMINABLE sNOWMAN WITH pETER cUSHING!!! i WAITED FoR years AND AT LEAST IT ON A CHEAPER FREE CHannel on Roku now. Sorry it is not on Netflix or Prime.

ya but she had to follow em for the suspense. lol. and sadly some ppl are that dumb and would do such things in life... great old bigfoot horror tho. i liked.

its like in those movies when the victim is running away from the bad guy, and they stop every so often and turn to look behind them and just wait until the bad guy catches up to them before they start running away again. like they're actually just playing tag.

Now U know if people didn't do stupid things in horror movies, there would B no movies like that. If U ever C horror movies FM the 30s or 40s, U will C these 2 decisions they hv women make. 1) the woman escapes FM a house. It is at night. She runs into the woods. The monster or the killer comes out looking 4 her abt 1 min later. This is so the woman can hide in the woods. The killer or monster doesn't know where sh is. So what do they hv the woman do 2 get the movie rolling? She screams as loud as she can so the killer or monster knows where she is. Now who in their right mind would do that? No one would. 2) the woman is running FM someone/thing. She is abt 100 yards ahead. Then she falls, looks back 2C the thing gaining ground. So what does she do? Does she get up an run? No, she lays there and just screams until the hero comes. Then the hero gets her up on her feet and they run FM it. No woman is going 2 act like that in those situations. But it kept the audience on the edge of their seats. Again, it was the 30s and 40s.

I saw this when I was 5. It may have mentally traumatized me for life. Good movie.

@@gregory4154 I hope it didn't traumatized you too much. Peace and God bless.

Sarcasm alert. Even though, the acting is decent for this type of film and the atmosphere is pretty well done considering its a tv movie. Better than all the killer bigfoot films nowadays.

@@lyndoncmp5751 This is a great movie. Very scary with an all star cast who took a mediocre script and managed to turn it into an Academy Award winning performance. 👏 Nicely done. 💪

@user-zb6ke7gy7e Lots of snowmobiles racing around though. There's a back flip at one point, while the driver is juggling.

me too 😊😅

Oh yeah, and me too. Scared me sooo much I had to sleep with the light on for awhile lol

I was 22 and had a six month baby when I watched this. My husband was away the next night so I put an ironing board up against my bedroom door in case anything came in. I’m cured now. I was also scared of things that ran on four legs and walked on two and had claws and big teeth 🥺

@@moostevens3562 so scare I didn't go outside at night to take the trash out 😬😬😬

"The Manitou" as well...

The book was good, & film quite close to it.

First time I saw Clint Walker was in "Night Of The Grizzly."

his sister was my painting instructor. she talked about him all the time. i did not know who she meant. i just nodded. my parents knew who she was talking about right away. she had a Cheyenne lunchbox too, i think. it was the only thing in the studio without paint on it.

​@@Nighthawk1968i still havent seen that. didnt know he was in that either

I watched this in b/w on a 13 inch television my mom bought from Woolworth!😊

Logan's so-called acting is at the top of the list here.

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I know!!! Not even a word of warning..she just takes off

Not any more then?

Exactly!

Given that it’s a guy in a suit it’s probably better this way. Seeing pieces and not the whole thing makes it scarier. As the story is a loose re run of Jaws that may be what the director thought as well.

Back then they didn`t show the monsters that much, Legend of Boggy Creek same, The Night Stalker, much of the made for TV were like that and some films. Back then we didn`t need that much to send us screaming in the dark....lol

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Yeah I vaguely remember that. Also it was shown sometime in the mid 1990s. 1996 I think.

I was waiting for Roger Moore to ski through a scene being chased by henchmen

And they keep running back and forth forever before finally getting outside 😂.

The suit was terrible, so better that we didn't see it clearer.

I would. Snow and cold suits me better than sweating in the sun.