Matcollis This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Murphy Howard I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Roxie The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

MartinHafer Although Italy was known for sword and sandal films (such as the Hercules and Machiste pictures) and the so-called spaghetti westerns in the 1960s, the country made many other types of movies...including some sci-fi. "La Morte Viene dal Pianeta Aytin" ("Snow Devils") is one of quite a few sci-fi movies that were dubbed into English and marketed in the States. While the film would look like absolute garbage when "2001: A Space Odyssey" debuted just a year later, for 1967 the effects are actually generally pretty good...at least when they weren't using cheap and fuzzy stock footage here and there during the story.When the picture begins, the temperatures around the planet are on the rise and snow is melting everywhere. An expedition in the Himalayas stumbles into the cause...some aliens who have been there for 100 years waiting to unleash their plan. What is the plan of these big, furry blue aliens? To flood the Earth and then quickly freeze it to turn the planet into a giant glacier, as that's the sort of temperatures these aliens like. And, since they also plan on taking over the planet, who cares what happens to the humans?! Can our intrepid heroes defeat the aliens at this base? And, if they do, will it stop the climactic problems...or is there another battle looming in the near future?The film is modestly entertaining albeit a bit silly here and there. But for a 1960s sci-fi movie, it's actually reasonably good. Too bad the magnificent special effects with "2001" would soon make these Italian exports look mega-crappy in comparison.

JLRVancouver Despite a slow first half, "Snow Devils" is fun escapist fare. An intrepid team of spacemen/scientists led by wavy-haired Rod Jackson (Giacomo Rossi ('Jack') Stuart) travel to the Himalaya to investigate climate change (very prescient). As modern "climate-change deniers" claim, it is not due to human activity but is rather due (this they do not claim) to aliens who are modifying our climate to match their needs as they plan on colonising Earth. The aliens are somewhat greenish hairy men with very fake-looking huge hairy Hobbit feet, who are the basis of 'yeti' sightings (or "snow devils" to the locals). There is a lot of tedious trudging through snow and cave-sets before this is established, at which point the movie gets interesting as the team blasts off to the moons of Jupitar to attack the alien base. Typical of director Antonio Margheriti's so-called "Gamma One" series (named after the space station that appears in all of the films), "Snow Devils" is full of great, if not particularly realistic, looking miniatures (including lots of spaceships) and imaginative scenes of people floating in zero-gravity. In a surprising nod to scientific accuracy (in a film where the rockets all gout flames as they fly through space), the issue of time delay in radio communications is written into the plot. The acting is generally hammy (Stuart delivers some lines in a Shatneresque staccato) and the women are primarily decorative (but look nice in their tight-fitting space-pants). If you have seen other "Gamma One" films, expect some feelings of déjà vu, as the props are recycled (note the reappearance of the futuristic cars similar to George Jetson's (although not capable of flight)). Not exactly cerebral sci-fi but better than most Hollywood offerings of the same vintage and budget. Worth watching by anyone looking for an imaginative, colourful and mindless time-killer, but a must-see for fans of science fiction movies.

Steve Nyland (Squonkamatic) Antonio Margheriti's THE SNOW DEVILS was probably the first of his GAMMA ONE QUADROLIGY films to be made though the last released in English and remains the most unique of the four movies ... though it may not necessarily be the most impressive of the efforts. My favorite is PLANET ON THE PROWL (or WAR BETWEEN THE PLANETS), with its emphasis on military jargon and space action. SNOW DEVILS is for the most part an Earth-bound adventure but is another example of Margheriti's fascination with hostilities existing not so much between the races inhabiting the cosmos, but battles between the actual stellar bodies themselves.Some of the GAMMA ONE films are amongst the best pre-"2001: A Space Odyssey" science fiction from the 1960s but all are essentially potboilers with ready-made elements that are reused from film to film in the same way that Spaghetti Westerns were made. In spite of the release dates assigned by the IMDb (no offense!) the films were all made *simultaneously* in 1964 using the same sets, stock casts, musical cues, technical crew and basic story premise ideas. This has resulted in some confusion not only of the dates of execution/release, but in precisely which order they should be viewed when considered as a "series". After all, any story arc needs a beginning and an ending, you can't have four narrative arcs in a single story line existing simultaneously simply because it's impractical to watch four movies at the same time. You'd need four TV sets either stacked up 2 on top of each other or arranged around you in a square, with the viewer seated in a revolving chair. The question would then be which screen do you look at for any given moment? which aptly illustrates the absurdity of the idea.So where in the series do you start? My answer is with THE SNOW DEVILS, since it is the most unique of the four examples that exist in English (the other three being PLANET ON THE PROWL, WILD WILD PLANET and THE DEADLY DIAFONOIDS, amongst other alternate titles for each of them). My thesis on why begins with the look of the film: It does not have the polished sheen of the other three films and is literally the most "down to earth" and thusly lowest budgeted of the three. It's musical score by Angelo Francesco Lavagnino (who provided the scores for all four films) is the most unique & memorable: The scores for the other three films are more interchangeable and in fact recycled from movie to movie, though the energetic theme for SNOW DEVILS is only heard in SNOW DEVILS. We never hear that memorable refrain again in any of the three other movies, though some of the more incidental musical fills do pop up again (as well as the proto-Loungey pop song used during a lighter moment at a summer resort during the beginning of the film).The space technology props are also more spare & "klunky" looking, picking up what may have been left over from 1962's BATTLE OF THE WORLDS and suggesting that Margheriti's skills in production design evolved as the series progressed (with PLANET ON THE PROWL being the most "realistic" looking, the goofy spacewalk scenes notwithstanding). SNOW DEVILS also has somewhat different costuming than the later efforts, suggesting to me at least that Margheriti's wardrobe department copped whatever pre-existing costumes they could get their hands on that looked futuristic, resulting in a kind of mismatched hodgepodge where the other three films are more unified in how the characters dressed. Star Giacomo Rossi Stuart's hair also changes between SNOW DEVILS and PLANET ON THE PROWL (he does not appear in the other 2 films). Here he is more of a coiffed blond though by PROWL it got darker & redder and had a more military look to the styling. Here he looks like he just wandered onto the set from romantic comedy where his hair was dyed blond. His Commander Rod Jackson is also somewhat less gruff & formal than in PROWL, where his barking of orders & dressing down of pretty female subordinate officers is one of the film's guilty pleasures. Jack Stuart would have made a fantastic air force officer.One other aspect of the film that suggests to me that it was the first one executed is that of all the four GAMMA ONE movies, this is the one to which time has been the least kind. The Snow Devil monsters themselves come off as somewhat less than intimidating, the set design has more in common with classic Flash Gordon than Stanley Kubrick, and the emphasis on Earth bound set & location work makes the film feel more like a throwback to the 1950s than a vision of things to come. But since there is no specific documentation of just which order Margheriti himself had in mind when making them any such conjecture is mere speculation. I've asked his son, producer/director Edoardo Margheriti, for advice on this and his own reply was somewhat ambiguous, confirming that all four were made at the same time but that there is no specific order in which they are to be viewed since they all had different release dates in different regions or as different language versions. Just because this one was released later than the others does not mean it was finished last, nor does this mean that the others were completed after it. And since they were essentially disposable B-grade movies usually shown on a double bill with something else like it the release schedule was arbitrary based on the needs of the distributors.Confused? GOOD. I have been puzzling over this conundrum of which order in which to view the GAMMA ONE films for about four years now and am delighted to pass the brain-twister on. Figure this one out with a formula proof to back it up and I will buy you an orange.7/10

sol **SPOILERS** Another attempt by aliens from another world trying to destroy the earth in order to take it over minus the human race left still living on it. With Yetis attacking a IDSC weather station on the ice capped Himalayias and killing everyone in it except it's commander Let. Harris has the head of IDSC Gen Norton send his best man Commander Rod, together with his top kick Capt. Pulasky, and a team of local mountain climbers to scale the Himalayan mount. Consent Junga in order to find what exactly happened. Sneaking on the climbing team is Harris' girlfriend Lisa Nielson disguised as a Sherpa guide trying to find out what happened to her lover Let. Harris. Attacked by a group of Yeti's and taken prisoners the climbers find out from the Yeti's leader Agron that their not really Yati's Bigfeet or Abominable Snowmen at all. In fact their from another planet Attina who have been on the planet earth for over a hundred years.With all the electronic equipment in working order the Attina's are now going to put the squeeze on the polar ice caps and cause them to break up and flood the earth and then lower the earth's temperature to below freezing and turn the surface of the earth into a solid sheet of ice. this would create a world for the Attina's to survive and thrive in. Commander Rod & Co. escaping from the Yeti's or Attina's and later tries to destroy their base in the Himalayias where the melting of the ice caps still continue with the coast cities of earth going under the waves. It turns out that the Attina's are using a power source in deep space to bombard the earths polar region's and it's up to Commander Rod to not only find where that source originates from but to go out with a fleet of space ships and destroy it. Bottom of the barrel special effects with a hackneyed storyline is the order of business in "Snow Devils" that has the viewers trying to keep from dozing off as they desperately try to watch the movie. The Snowmen Yeti's or Attina's had worked so long and hard to get were they were in the film. Just when they were about to achieve what they worked for all these years all they got for their efforts is nothing but a good old hot foot for their big feet or their "Bigfoot" as their known in these parts.