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YETI: GIANT OF THE 20TH CENTURY
dir. Gianfranco Parolini, 1977
118 mins. Italy/Ontario.
In American-Canadian English.
Man, where the hell was GIANT OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY during last June's MISSING LINKS series? At any rate: some movies are so bad they can only horrify in a new way, redistricting the parameters of imagination further afield than previously considered or conceded. That's Gianfranco Parolini's jawdropping YETI (GIANT OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY) an epic Italian-Canadian cash-in whose particulate special effects (stitching the nominal YETI into myriad locales around 1970s Toronto, somehow barely beveling the same frames as his puny human victims/lovers) posed an extraordinary challenge to the idea of monster movie verisimilitude forever. Even if the nominal attraction more clearly resembles a screaming white dude covered in (hopefully fake) animal fur, YETI is one for the history books, proudly chest-thumping a sonorous disco theme from "The Yetians" and an unabashed new perspective on Toronto as tax-shelter competitor to Dino De Laurentiis' fantasy-land NYC. Both Parolini and his GIANT are after bigger things than your approval (or even your five dollars): this movie represents an evolutionary psycho-industrial-sexual shakeup whose true lessons have never fully come to pass.
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LocationSPECTACLE THEATER (View)
124 South 3rd Street
Brooklyn, NY 11249
United States
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| Kid Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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