‘Sub-human monsters go on a rampaging blood-binge!’
Man Beast is a 1956 sci-fi horror monster movie about a woman who mounts an expedition into the Himalayas to look for her brother who has not returned from a previous trek trying to locate the Yeti, or “Abominable Snowman”.
Produced and directed by the infamous bad filmmaker Jerry Warren (Frankenstein Island; The Wild World of Batwoman; House of the Black Death; Creature of the Walking Dead; Curse of the Stone Hand; Face of the Screaming Werewolf; Terror in the Midnight Sun; Teenage Zombies) from a screenplay by B. Arthur Cassidy.
The Jerry Warren Productions-Associated Producers production stars Asa Maynor [as Virginia Maynor], George Skaff, Tom Maruzzi, Lloyd Nelson [as Lloyd Cameron], George Wells Lewis, Jack Haffner and Wong Sing.
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Plot [contains spoilers]:
Connie Hayward (Virginia Maynor) and Trevor Hudson (Lloyd Nelson) travel to the Himalayas with a guide named Steve (Tom Maruzzi) to locate Connie’s missing brother, who disappeared in that region while on an earlier expedition looking for the Abominable Snowman. Together with the help of Doctor Erickson (George Wells Lewis), they manage to locate her brother’s camp, but it is abandoned, except for a mysterious native guide named Varga (George Skaff) who attempts to befriend them.
The group is attacked by the snowmen, with the treacherous Varga secretly working against the members of the expedition. Hudson falls off a cliff while being chased by a yeti, and Doctor Erickson is lured into a cave by Varga, who then shoots him dead. When most of the party is dead, Varga reveals to Connie that he is a fifth-generation descendant of Yeti, who for decades have been kidnapping human women and forcing them to breed with the male snowmen in an attempt to eventually wipe out the Yeti strain from their DNA. He plots to kidnap Connie and mate with her so that their progeny will be another step closer to being human.
Steve comes to Connie’s rescue and manages to knock Varga unconscious. Steve and Connie attempt to escape down the mountain, but Varga follows them down a rope to ensure they do not make it. The rope slips loose from its mooring, Varga falls to his death, and Connie and Steve (now in love) make their way back to civilisation…
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